Role Overview To take ownership of project planning, billing, cost control, and efficiency tracking across NV Infras EPC projects. The Planning Engineer will ensure accurate RA billing, maintain tight control on material and labour usage, monitor productivity and highlight deviations safeguarding profitability and timely cash flow while enabling scale.

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Scheduling
Prepare baseline project schedules (MS Project / Primavera / Excel Gantt).
Monitor daily/weekly progress against planned schedule using DPR inputs.
Prepare look-ahead plans (weekly/monthly) for site teams.
Identify & flag delays and propose recovery actions to site teams and management.

Quantity Surveying & Billing
Prepare BOQs from drawings, verify site quantities.
Prepare RA bills and submit to client/consultants on time.
Track variations, extra items, escalation claims and ensure billing coverage.
Reconcile client certified quantities vs executed quantities.
Coordinate with site engineers for joint measurements.

Material Control
Maintain material consumption registers (cement, steel, blocks, shuttering etc).
Compare theoretical requirement vs actual site usage; report wastage %.




Weekly reconciliation of site material usage vs billed quantities.
Flag deviations in material consumption.

Labour Productivity Tracking
Monitor daily gang outputs (masonry, shuttering, bar bending, finishing etc).
Compare actual productivity with standard market benchmarks.
Recommend labour strength adjustments to meet schedule targets.
Cost Analysis & Efficiency tracking
Maintain Cost-to-Bill Tracker: billed value vs actual cost (materials + labour + subcontractors).
Analyse variances and highlight profit leakages to management.
Support corrective actions (rework claims, rate revisions, vendor negotiations).

Reporting & Documentation
Prepare weekly Efficiency & Cost Control Report (progress, productivity, wastage, cost vs bill).
Maintain proper records of BOQs, RA bills, variation claims, and reconciliations.
Coordinate with Accounts for invoicing and cash flow forecasting.

Project Projections
Support management in cash flow forecasting.
Prepare MIS reports for management review.

Requirements
Knowledge of planning tools (MS Project/Primavera) and MS Office.
Positive communication and coordination skills.

📌 Civil Planning Engineer Chennai
🏢 NV Infra
📍 Chennai