Engineer - Planning & Scheduling

Greythr; Mumbai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Greythr is seeking an Engineer - Planning & Scheduling to develop and maintain project plans and schedules, coordinating with engineering, procurement, and construction teams. The role emphasizes monitoring progress, identifying risks, and delivering accurate reporting to guide decisions.

The candidate should manage multiple activities, priorities, and stakeholders in a dynamic project environment, with strong analytical and communication skills to ensure timely execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field with exposure to planning.
• Experience in project planning, scheduling, controls, or related environment.
• Proficiency with planning software and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed project plans, WBS, schedules, and baselines.
• Track progress, update schedules, and manage changes and risks.
• Prepare weekly/monthly schedule reports for leadership.
• Coordinate with engineers, procurement, and site teams.
• Support look-ahead planning, recovery plans, and interface management.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction/PM

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

MS Excel

Job description

The Engineer - Planning & Scheduling is responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring project plans and schedules to support the timely and efficient execution of engineering, construction, maintenance, and related operational activities. The role involves coordinating with cross-functional teams, tracking progress against approved baselines, identifying schedule risks, and providing accurate reporting to support informed project decisions.

The position requires strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, along with the ability to manage multiple activities, priorities, and stakeholders in a dynamic project environment.

Key Responsibilities

Job Description: Engineer - Planning & Scheduling - MPR-979Position Overview

The Engineer - Planning & Scheduling is responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring project plans and schedules to support the timely and efficient execution of engineering, construction, maintenance, and related operational activities. The role involves coordinating with cross-functional teams, tracking progress against approved baselines, identifying schedule risks, and providing accurate reporting to support informed project decisions.

The position requires strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, along with the ability to manage multiple activities, priorities, and stakeholders in a dynamic project environment.

Planning and Scheduling

• Develop detailed project plans, work breakdown structures, activity lists, and integrated schedules in coordination with engineering, procurement, construction, operations, and other relevant teams.
• Establish activity sequences, logical relationships, durations, milestones, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Prepare baseline schedules and ensure alignment with approved project scope, deliverables, contractual requirements, and execution strategies.
• Maintain and regularly update project schedules based on actual progress, approved changes, constraints, and revised execution plans.
• Support short-term, medium-term, and long-term planning activities, including look-ahead schedules and recovery plans.
• Coordinate planning inputs from discipline engineers, contractors, suppliers, and other project stakeholders.

Progress Monitoring and Control

• Monitor planned versus actual progress and identify deviations, delays, critical activities, and emerging schedule risks.
• Collect, validate, and consolidate progress data from project teams and site personnel.
• Prepare progress measurement systems, dashboards, weekly updates, monthly reports, and schedule performance analyses.
• Track key milestones, engineering deliverables, procurement activities, material availability, construction progress, testing, commissioning, and handover activities, as applicable.
• Analyze schedule performance using appropriate planning and control techniques, including critical path analysis, trend analysis, milestone tracking, and variance analysis.
• Recommend corrective and preventive actions to mitigate delays and improve schedule performance.

Coordination and Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with project managers, engineering teams, site teams, procurement, contracts, cost control, quality, safety, and external contractors to ensure coordinated execution.
• Facilitate planning meetings, progress reviews, schedule workshops, and coordination sessions.
• Communicate schedule status, constraints, risks, opportunities, and required actions to relevant stakeholders.
• Support coordination of interfaces between project disciplines, work packages, vendors, contractors, and operational teams.
• Follow up on action items and ensure timely resolution of schedule-related issues.

Schedule Risk and Change Management

• Identify potential schedule risks, constraints, resource limitations, and interface issues that may affect project delivery.
• Support the preparation of schedule risk assessments, mitigation strategies, recovery schedules, and acceleration plans.
• Evaluate the schedule impact of design changes, scope changes, variation orders, delays, and other project events.
• Maintain records of approved changes, schedule revisions, assumptions, constraints, and delay events.
• Provide planning and scheduling inputs for claims, extensions of time, change management, and contractual reporting when required.

Reporting and Documentation

• Prepare clear and accurate schedule reports for project leadership and stakeholders.
• Maintain planning databases, schedule files, progress records, performance reports, and supporting documentation.
• Ensure schedules and reports are prepared in accordance with company procedures, project requirements, and applicable standards.
• Support the development of productivity analyses, resource histograms, manpower plans, S-curves, progress curves, and other project control deliverables.
• Contribute to lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives related to planning, scheduling, and project execution.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in project planning, scheduling, project controls, engineering, construction, maintenance, or a related environment.
• Working knowledge of planning and scheduling principles, project life cycles, work breakdown structures, critical path methodology, and progress measurement.
• Proficiency in scheduling and reporting tools such as Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, or equivalent planning software.
• Ability to develop and maintain integrated project schedules and analyze schedule performance.
• Strong understanding of activity sequencing, resource planning, schedule baselines, milestones, dependencies, and schedule forecasting.
• Knowledge of project controls, risk management, change management, and performance monitoring practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under schedule pressure.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy in project reporting and documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification in project management, planning, scheduling, or project controls.
• Experience working on multidisciplinary or large-scale projects.
• Familiarity with earned value management, schedule risk analysis, cost and resource loading, and delay analysis.
• Experience coordinating with contractors, consultants, suppliers, and site-based project teams.
• Knowledge of industry-specific engineering, construction, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, or maintenance project environments.

Core Competencies

• Project Planning and Scheduling
• Schedule Analysis and Progress Control
• Critical Path and Milestone Management
• Project Coordination
• Risk and Change Management
• Data Analysis and Reporting
• Stakeholder Communication
• Problem Solving and Decision Support
• Time Management and Organization
• Attention to Detail

Job Profile

• Job Title: Engineer - Planning & Scheduling
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Work Environment: Project, engineering, construction, operational, or site-based environment, depending on business requirements
• Reporting To: Project Manager, Planning Manager, or Project Controls Manager