Job Title: Planning Engineer / Planning Manager

Location: Jamnagar & Dahej, Gujarat

Experience: 10 to 20 Years

Qualification: B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Industry: Industrial Projects / EPC

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Scheduling

- Analyze, fine-tune, and finalize the project master schedule based on preliminary schedules and project requirements.
- Develop and maintain detailed project schedules (L1 to L4 levels) covering engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning activities.
- Establish project baselines, milestones, critical paths, and resource-loaded schedules.

Schedule Review & Control
- Review and approve schedules submitted by contractors and ensure alignment with approved project schedules.
- Ensure all resources, work breakdown structures (WBS), activity sequencing, and dependencies are accurately captured.
- Monitor schedule compliance and identify deviations, bottlenecks, and slippages.

Progress Monitoring & Reporting
- Track project progress on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis against approved baselines.
- Perform delay analysis and proactively identify risks that may impact project timelines.
- Provide timely alerts and recommendations to project management regarding potential delays and recovery actions.
- Generate daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports, dashboards, and management presentations.

Coordination & Stakeholder Management
- Participate in project review meetings with client representatives, consultants,



contractors, and construction teams.
- Support development of mitigation and recovery plans to address schedule slippages.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between planning and execution activities.

Project Controls
- Assist in forecasting project completion dates and resource requirements.
- Maintain schedule revisions, progress curves, look-ahead plans, and project control documentation.
- Monitor productivity trends and support project performance analysis.

Desired Candidate Profile For Planning Engineer

- B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering.
- 10 to 15 years of experience in planning and project controls for industrial, EPC, mining, steel, cement, power projects.
- Hands-on experience in project scheduling and monitoring.

For Planning Manager
- B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering.
- 15 to 20 years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and controls with proven leadership capability.
- Experience managing planning teams and coordinating with multiple stakeholders.

Technical Skills
- Proficiency in Primavera P6 and/or MS Project.
- Solid understanding of project scheduling methodologies, CPM, EVM, and project controls.
- Experience in preparing S-curves, progress reports, look-ahead schedules, and delay analysis reports.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and project reporting tools.
- Strong analytical, communication, and coordination skills.

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