Manager - Planning

Phoenix Incorporated; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Phoenix Incorporated in India seeks a Manager-Planning to lead the comprehensive master program for large projects and monitor adherence to timelines across Civil, MEP, and interior disciplines.

You will collaborate with contractors, consultants, and banks, preparing trackers, budgets, and progress updates while ensuring timely handovers to operations. This role demands 8–10 years in construction with planning experience and strong PM software skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering required.
• Post Graduate in Construction Management advantageous.
• 8-10 years construction industry experience with on-site + planning exposure.

Responsibilities

• Assist the GM-Planning in planning after project kick-off or 6-8 months prior to construction.
• Coordinate with Regulatory Approvals team to embed timelines into the master plan.
• Prepare trackers for design, contracts, procurement, execution, approvals and include dates in the master plan.
• Facilitate tracking activities and monitor progress through Primavera.
• Undertake site inspections to evaluate Civil/MEP/Services, Interior Design, Safety, QA/QC status.
• Track critical items, analyze critical paths and escalate issues to GM-Planning.
• Monitor timely completion until hand-over to Operations and resolve snags.
• Collate status updates for PRM and present to GM-Planning for review.
• Prepare monthly project status reports for investors and banks.
• Support establishing LO and L1 budgets from concept plans and tender drawings/BOQs.
• Establish budget vs actual scenarios and assist cashflow planning.
• Provide value engineering to reduce and optimize budgets during construction.
• Coordinate planning managers across locations for weekly reviews and follow-ups.

Skills

Project management

Project Planning

Primavera/MS Project

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Post Graduate in Construction Management

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title

Manager- Planning

Department / Division

Projects

External Interface

• Contractor’s Planning team
• Consultants
• Investors/ Consortium of banks

Minimum Qualification

(i.e education, training etc.)

• Graduate in CivilEngineering (B.E/ B. Tech)
• Post Graduate inConstruction Management will be an added advantage.

Minimum Experience

• 8-10 years of constructionindustry experience, with atleast 5 years on-site experience and atleast 3years planning experience. Experience in commercial & Mall projects wouldbe preferred.

Special Skills/Attributes

(required for performing the jobeffectively)

• Project management skills
• Project Planning
• Hands on experience onProject Management software like Primavera/MS Project

Overall Purpose/Objective

Responsiblefor contributing actively in the development of a comprehensive masterprogram for the assigned project and tracking/ monitoring the same in termsof adherence to proposed timelines highlighting delays, deviations, issues,etc

Key Responsibilities

(List major responsibilities, thatyou have, to achieve the keyobjectives)

• Assist the GM-Planning inthe planning process after the kick-off of the project or 6-8 months prior tocommencement of construction
• Coordinate with theRegulatory Approvals team to build the timelines for necessary approvals, permissions,sanctions, etc into the master plan
• Prepare various trackersfor several functional areas such as design drawings, contracts andprocurement, execution, Regulatory Approvalsing etc., to build it into a master programand ensure that the master and individual trackers includes the proposed andactual/expected start and end dates
• Facilitate trackingactivities and monitoring the progress of project through Primavera
• Undertake siteinspections, reviews to monitor/ track the activities carried out in variousareas such as Civil/MEP/Services, Interior Design, Safety, QA/QC, etc andthus evaluate the status of the project
• Track critical items,analyze critical paths and elevate the issues to the GM- Planning
• Monitor timely completionof activities till the hand-over of the mall to the Operations team (postretailer fit-outs) and resolution of snags
• Collate / Prepare statusupdates and presentations for the Project Review Meetings (PRM) highlightingthe concern areas of the particularproject and provide it to the General Manager � Planning for review
• Collate / Prepare monthlyreports for investors and consortium of banks, on the project progress, summary of ongoingand propped project activities, monthly project status
• Provide support inestablishing L0 budget based on the concept plans.
• Provide support to siteplanning representative for establishing L1 budget based on the tenderdrawings / BOQs received from consultant, review & approval frommanagement.
• Establishing budget Vsactual scenarios of project
• Providing support toGM-Planning for developing cashflow requirement for each project throughtaking inputs from the Project heads.
• Providing valueengineering solutions to reduce & optimize project budgets during theconstruction phases.
• Co-ordinatingplanning managers across various project locations for conducting weekly projectreview meetings either at HO/ at site. Establishing minutes & follow upsfor adherence to the commitments made by the project heads.

Requirements: