Planning Engineer-E5-Planning-PMO

About Us

Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE) is the largest Indian private sector engineering and project consultancy and an emerging global leader in integrated engineering solutions. With more than 60 years of engineering excellence, TCE has a presence in over 64 countries and over 12000 completed projects, the company operates in 3 core Industry segments -Infrastructure (Water, Environment, Urban Development, Buildings, Manufacturing Facilities, Ports and Harbours, Transportation), Power (Thermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Renewable, Transmission and Distribution) and Resources - Hydrocarbons and Chemicals (Oil, Gas and Refineries, Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Fertilizers, Speciality Chemicals, Pulp and Paper, Cement, Food, Pharmaceuticals and Beverages, Tyre, Glass) as well as Mining and Metallurgy (Mining, Geology, Beneficiation, Steel, Non-ferrous). TCE serves domestic as well as international markets and is known for several first-of-its-kind projects offering Engineering Studies, Design Engineering Services, Project Management Consultancy Services, OPEX and IIOT across all three verticals. A part of Tata Group - India’s most respected group, TCE is a 100 percent subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited Design your Future with us At TCE, you will experience a supportive environment that empowers you to excel, whether you are based in our offices or at a client site. We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering a workplace where every individual can thrive by contributing their unique skills and perspectives to deliver exceptional results for our clients. Our comprehensive compensation and benefits packages are designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families, complemented by a robust global well-being program. As a leading global infrastructure firm, we are committed to your growth and success, offering access to cutting-edge technology and impactful projects that offer flexibility and significant professional opportunities. Join us and become part of a global company that values your potential and supports your career development.

Purpose & Scope of Position

The Planning Engineer is responsible for the delivery of project planning and progress measurement, ensuring that TCE’s procedures and best practices are applied, as appropriate, and recommending changes to the Project Controls Manager where required. He is responsible for developing and maintaining the project master schedule to meet the project objectives.

Experience

• Working knowledge of engineering, project control systems and construction management. • 2+ years of relevant experience as a planner in a multi discipline project environment • Knowledge in the use of Primavera Project Planner and MS Office package

Qualification

• Postgraduate or graduate in an engineering discipline • Professional Project Management Certification (preferable from PMI) or Post Graduate degree in Project Engineering and Management or Post Graduate degree in Advanced Construction Management

Key Responsibilities

1.Conduct planning meeting with Functional Managers to finalize project implementation schedule 2.Create detailed logic linked project plans around project WBS in primavera or by using various Microsoft tools 3.Monitor plans to ensure that the processes relating project planning to detailed planning are being adhered to 4.Manage and control the project schedule against base line conditions, including staff, production and materials 5.Confirm project schedules and critical paths and set baseline for project implementation phase 6.Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports 7.Participate in project schedule risk analysis and include resultant contingency in baseline 8.Using progress reports (early and late curves) and project schedule. maintain, optimize and monitor progress. Identify and resolve issues 9.Monitor slippages of critical and near critical paths and discuss with Project Controls Engineer/Project Manager for resolution 10.Ensures the integrity of the project schedule through approved scope changes, fiscal changes and contingency reallocations 11.Re-base line the plan(s) following a major contract change, to create a revised, viable programme of work for the remaining tasks 12.Once a change is approved, maintain and optimize the schedule, monitor progress and highlight/ resolve areas of potential concern. 13.Ensures the project cost reports include schedule adjustments that could affect the forecast final costs 14.Analyse, interpret and report on key performance indicators such as earned value, schedule performance indicators, cost performance indicators and forecast cost at completion date 15.Facilitate exchange of information between Project Manager and Project Controls Engineer 16.Communicate cost and schedule risk reports to Project Controls Engineer contributing to recovery and improvement initiatives

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