Planning Lead

Mace is looking for a Planning & Control Lead to drive project planning and controls, manage integrated schedules, monitor progress against baselines, identify risks and delays, and ensure effective project performance reporting.

Education - B. Tech in Civil Engineering

Required Experience - Minimum 11 Years

Role & responsibilities

• Lead the overall planning, scheduling and project controls activities across the project lifecycle.
• Develop, review and maintain baseline and master programmes using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project.
• Establish WBS, milestones, activity sequencing, critical paths and project control procedures.
• Monitor actual progress against the approved baseline programme and highlight deviations.
• Perform Critical Path Method (CPM) and schedule variance analysis.
• Prepare look-ahead programmes, including 2-week, 4-week and monthly schedules.
• Coordinate with project managers, design, commercial, procurement, construction and MEP teams to maintain an integrated programme.
• Monitor engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning activities against project milestones.
• Review contractors' and subcontractors' programmes and assess their alignment with contractual requirements.
• Track progress using S-curves, dashboards, productivity analysis, milestone trackers and progress reports.
• Identify potential schedule delays, constraints and risks and develop appropriate mitigation/recovery plans.
• Support delay analysis, extension-of-time (EOT), change control and claims assessment from a planning perspective.
• Conduct weekly/monthly progress reviews and provide management with accurate schedule forecasts.
• Maintain proper records of programme revisions, progress updates and schedule changes.
• Support resource and cost-loaded schedules, where applicable.
• Provide inputs for project reporting, including planned vs. actual progress, schedule variance, critical activities and forecast completion dates.
• Mentor and guide planning engineers/project controls team members.

Preferred candidate profile

Candidate must have experience in Data Centre/Mission Critical.

Interested candidates are invited to share their updated profiles at [email removed].