Construction Planning Manager

Surbana Consultants Pte Ltd – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) branch; Amaravati; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Surbana Jurong is seeking a Construction Planning Manager in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh for the PgMC – APCRDA project. The role focuses on detailed scheduling, progress tracking, and data-driven planning across project teams, consultants, and clients.

The incumbent will manage baseline programmes, look-ahead schedules, and recovery plans while maintaining dashboards and MIS for management reporting. Strong communication and governance skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in Construction Planning, Project Planning, Scheduling, or Project Controls.
• Experience in infrastructure, urban development, or government projects.
• Hands-on experience in Primavera P6 / MS Project and MS Excel.
• Good understanding of construction planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, and project controls.
• Experience in preparing baseline programmes, look-ahead schedules, progress reports, and recovery plans.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Experience in Smart City / Urban Development / Government infrastructure projects will be preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and monitor detailed construction schedules, milestones, and project plans.
• Track project progress against approved baseline schedules and targets.
• Identify delays, critical activities, risks, and schedule deviations and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc progress reports and project updates.
• Coordinate with project teams, consultants, contractors, and client representatives for progress data and planning activities.
• Review construction programmes, work plans, resource requirements, and recovery schedules.
• Maintain project planning dashboards, MIS, and progress records.
• Support project review meetings, presentations, and management reporting.
• Ensure timely updating of project schedules and monitoring of planned vs. actual progress.

Skills

Construction Planning

Scheduling

Project Controls

Analytics

Communication

Stakeholder coordination

Government infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Civil Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

MS Excel

Job description

Job Title

Construction Planning Manager

Location

Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh

Project

PgMC – APCRDA

Experience

5–8 Years

Qualification

Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and monitor detailed construction schedules, milestones, and project plans.
• Track project progress against approved baseline schedules and targets.
• Identify delays, critical activities, risks, and schedule deviations and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc progress reports and project updates.
• Coordinate with project teams, consultants, contractors, and client representatives for progress data and planning activities.
• Review construction programmes, work plans, resource requirements, and recovery schedules.
• Maintain project planning dashboards, MIS, and progress records.
• Support project review meetings, presentations, and management reporting.
• Ensure timely updating of project schedules and monitoring of planned vs. actual progress.

Experience & Skills

• 5–8 years of experience in Construction Planning, Project Planning, Scheduling, or Project Controls.
• Experience in infrastructure, urban development, or government projects.
• Hands-on experience in Primavera P6 / MS Project and MS Excel.
• Good understanding of construction planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, and project controls.
• Experience in preparing baseline programmes, look-ahead schedules, progress reports, and recovery plans.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Experience in Smart City / Urban Development / Government infrastructure projects will be preferred.

About Surbana Jurong

At Surbana Jurong, we put talent, hard work, teamwork and a fun workplace together to approach problems and solve them creatively and collaboratively. Join us in making a positive impact on the world!

Surbana Jurong is a diverse collective of problem solvers for the built environment, continually reimagining ways to create a smart and sustainable future. Headquartered in Singapore, the group has a global talent pool of 16,000 in its member companies AETOS, Atelier Ten, B+H, CHIL, KTP, Prostruct, Robert Bird Group, SAA, SMEC and Surbana Jurong, based in more than 120 offices in over 40 countries. They include architects, designers, planners, engineers, facilities managers and other specialists driven by progressive thinking and creative ideas to shape a better future. Its technical experts deliver sustainable solutions that cover the entire project life cycle from planning and design, through to delivery and management, as well as a full suite of multidisciplinary consultancy services across a diverse range of sectors including transportation, water, aviation, healthcare, hospitality and renewables. A global urban, infrastructure and managed services consulting firm with over 70 years of track record in successful project delivery, SJ has built more than a million homes in Singapore, created master plans in more than 60 countries and developed over 100 industrial parks globally. SJ is #23 in Engineering News-Record’s 2023 Top 225 International Design Firms, #14 in World Architecture 100 2024, and Asia Pacific FM Technology Provider of the Year 2022, awarded by International Facility Management Association.