Specialist- Planning & Scheduling

Overview

Develops and maintains project schedules and progress milestones, coordinating with procurement, engineering and departmental leads to keep projects on track for completion.

What you'll do

• Understand the scope of work and develop the project schedule.
• Load resources and allocate work hours in line with the approved budget.
• Develop and maintain a job progress monitoring system through scheduling.
• Monitor job progress against schedules and coordinate with departmental leads.
• Participate in weekly review meetings and perform schedule analysis.
• Set priorities for projects to guarantee on-time completion.
• Issue weekly lookaheads and manhour reports to the project team.
• Develop production schedules for all projects and correlate them with the client's forecasted master schedule.
• Expedite deliverables and tasks that delay schedules, and alter schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports.
• Contribute to forecasts and disbursements by performing schedule analysis.
• Coordinate with procurement and material managers, and engineering work group leads, on essential items of supply.
• Perform other work-related duties and responsibilities as assigned to meet organizational and operational objectives.

What you'll need

• At least 5-8 years of planning and scheduling experience in the relevant industry, preferably with a process licensor.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, or Process) or equivalent is highly desired.
• Knowledge of scheduling multiple projects using Primavera P3 or P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Knowledge of construction projects, resource loading and staffing, including performing risk analysis and pinpointing scheduling conflicts in advance.
• Ability to interact effectively with all project stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple tasks at once and rapidly adapting to changing priorities and schedules.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills to liaise effectively with clients, other departments, subcontractors, and report directly to Senior Management.
• Detail-oriented with good project management skills.
• Ability to manage clients and multiple projects to meet deadlines.

Details

• Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India.