Planning Engineer

Larsen & Toubro; Odisha; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Larsen & Toubro is seeking an experienced Project Cost Controller / Schedule Manager to lead planning, cost control and project controls at site in Odisha. You will develop look-ahead schedules, monitor progress, and coordinate with contractors to ensure on-time delivery.

You will establish baseline schedules, track Earned Value metrics, prepare monthly client invoices, and manage change orders and claims, while maintaining MIS reports and project profitability for senior management.

Qualifications

• Expertise in schedule development, monitoring and controlling.
• Strong cost control and budgeting experience.
• Experience with CPMS, Primavera, and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Develop monthly look-ahead plan for project (quantity progress, billing, cost and cash flow).
• Establish the baseline schedule of all the contractors.
• Prepare and maintain EPCC schedule and delay analysis.
• Monitor and report progress weekly/monthly to client with remarks.
• Prepare control budgets and manage project budgets; review costs to forecast cost to complete (CToC).
• Lead the project management team to complete the project within time frame and budget.
• Maintain MIS reports like Project Profitability, PVR, and JCR.
• Prepare monthly client bills and rate analyses for sub-contractors.
• Prepare monthly cash flow statements and direct materials consumption reports.

Skills

Project management

Budgeting

Cost control

Team coordination

Tools

Primavera

MS Project

MS Office

CPMS

Job description

• Should be based at the project site with similar business/project expertise at site level.
• Develop monthly look-ahead plan for project (quantity progress, billing, cost and cash flow).
• Expertise in schedule development, monitoring and controlling using primavera , MS Project, MS Office and CPMS
• Establishing the baseline schedule of all the contractors
• Based on the project scope of work, develops look-ahead reports. monthly updating and maintaining EPCC schedule and preparing for delay analysis.
• Monitoring, tracking and reporting progress weekly /monthly to client with remarks. Monitor the progress periodically and ensure that delays don't happen in operations.
• Prepare control budget for project ACE, etc. (work breakdown structure) WBS) and manage the project budgets by reviewing the cost incurred and forecast costs to complete (JCR) for project WBS.
• Cost control with strict budget check at each project work break down structure (WBS), Cost analysis on a day-to-day basis, monthly cost review with project manager and contractual claims for deviation from contract.
• Led the of project management team to complete the project within time 2 frame and budgets.
• Maintain MIS report for project profitability, Project Valuation Report (PVR), Job Cost Report (JCR).
• Responsible for complete cost analysis and visibility on project profitability to Management.
• Develop and implement project cost control tools, invoicing procedures, issue regular project cost control report, and coordinate with the finance and accounts department for Financial Profit & Loss Statement.
• Involved in contracts management, project close out and change order management.
• Measuring project performance with Earned Value Analysis, schedule and cost performance indices, incident frequency rate, and incident severity rate.
• Preparing monthly and final client bills.
• Rate analysis for Piece rate works for sub-contractors.
• Preparing sub-contractors'/ labour contractors' work orders.
• Preparing monthly cash flow statement
• Preparing monthly consumption report of direct materials as per the work done for the month.
• Reconciliation of direct materials as per the actual consumptions on quarterly basis.
• Cost Analysis for hired plants for each activity on daily basis with respect to plant unitisation at site.
• Certification of the subcontractor's/PRW contractor bill.
• Identifying extra works and preparing rate analysis for extra works.
• Preparation of additional claim as per contract & Insurance claim
• Preparing documents required for ISO and exposure to quality plan and quality management system.