Senior Project Planner

Job description

WSP India, GCC, ME-T&I is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Senior Project Planner to join our commercial management team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in planning and scheduling, claim management large-scale linear infrastructure projects using Primavera P6. You will be responsible for developing, managing, and monitoring project schedules, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget. This role requires strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a thorough understanding of project management principles and to prepare the extension of time and prolongation claims.

Responsibilities:

• To develop and maintain the resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6
• Responsible for updating project schedule and to prepare recovery plan when needed
• Review schedules, undertake analysis of baseline schedule and schedule updates, monitoring of schedule delays
• Support in producing extension of time and prolongation claims by providing the required Primavera P6 program to support our submissions
• Preparing monthly or weekly schedule updates/reports and contributing to preparation of monthly reports
• Monitor and control the progress of work to be adhered to the planned schedule and achieving project milestone
• Generate executive summary dashboard reports for higher management
• Provide support in the areas of project controls, scheduling, scheduling analysis, earned value management, claim analysis and construction activities in support of the program
• Ensure proactive project planning, stakeholder and risk management takes place across projects
• Accountable for identifying the major milestones to be attained through the program/projects completion
• Oversee construction schedule, perform special analysis for resource loading and performance progress

Key Competencies / Skills:

• Fully proficient with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project
• Good knowledge and experience of the project lifecycle and able to correlate construction activities with planning, and schedule control
• To have experience working for or with contractors or project management companies and can manage multiple projects simultaneously
• To be confident presenting to all stakeholders including contractors and clients
• To be experienced in working on claims from claimant perspective and client perspective using recommended practices for claims analysis in construction industry
• Strong English language proficiency and communication skills
• Experience with tools like MS Project, Excel, and reporting platforms (Power BI, etc.) is a plus