Planning Engineer

Role & responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain baseline programme (L1L3), WBS, and activity logic with resource and cost loading
• Roll out micro-schedules: 3-month look-ahead, weekly plan vs actual, daily slippage tracking
• Track physical progress against plan, compute earned value / % completion, and flag deviations with recovery plans
• Quantity take-off from drawings for planning purposes; tie quantities to schedule activities
• Coordinate with site, contracts, QS and procurement to align material/manpower requirement schedules with the programme
• Prepare DPR, WPR, MPR and MIS dashboards for management review
• Raise and track RFIs, drawing requirement schedules, and hold points that threaten the critical path
• Support contractor billing verification by validating claimed progress against actual
• Delay analysis and documentation for EOT claims / contractor accountability

Preferred candidate profile

• B.E./B.Tech Civil (or Diploma with proportionally more experience)
• 35 years in planning, at least 2 in residential high-rise or large-scale EPC
• Primavera P6 (mandatory) and MS Project; advanced Excel — pivot tables, lookups, conditional logic
• AutoCAD for drawing reading and take-off; BBS reading ability
• Working knowledge of RCC and finishing sequences, shuttering cycles, slab cycle planning
• Good-to-have
• MS Power BI or Google Sheets/Apps Script for dashboards and automation
• Exposure to ERP-based progress and billing systems
• Understanding of FIDIC/standard contract clauses relating to time, EOT and LD
• Experience with infrastructure packages (roads, UG services), not just buildings