Project Manager - Planning

Turner & Townsend; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for professional growth

Job summary

A global construction consultancy is seeking a Scheduler in Mumbai to manage advanced scheduling and progress measurement for significant projects. This role requires a minimum of 8 years experience in project management and expertise with scheduling tools such as MS Project and Primavera. The ideal candidate will demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, leading project scheduling efforts while ensuring accurate and timely reporting of project status. Strong commitment to collaboration and an inclusive work environment is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with demonstrated career growth.
• Expertise in project scheduling tools and methodologies.
• Ability to handle multiple schedule inputs and organize data.

Responsibilities

• Implement planning and scheduling strategies.
• Coordinate Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) with project leads.
• Conduct critical path analysis and report on schedule performance.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Schedule Analysis

Education

B.E/B.Tech (Civil)

Project Management Certification

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Job Description

The Scheduler functions include advanced scheduling, progress measurement, change management implementation and analysis that may involve a major residential project. A thorough understanding of policies, methods, and procedures that includes advanced Planning and Scheduling techniques, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, and support of project objectives. Provide expertise and best practice implementation in the workplace for the region with regard to the planning and scheduling discipline.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement Project Planning & Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
• Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in consent with Project lead and Project Planner.
• Promote and maintain the overall integration and integrity of contractor schedules within the Program suite of project schedules.
• Provide interface and quality assurance to Project functional groups and contractors regarding the tracking and reporting of schedule performance.
• Preparing Staffing, Engineering and Construction progress and customized reports.
• Perform Critical Path Analysis.
• Conduct the required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
• Analyse deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions.
• Prepare the Integrated Planning / Scheduling contribution to the Monthly Project Report and specific reports / presentations.
• Analyse and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order.
• Ensure that schedule related from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems.
• Working closely with various disciplines in project teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced.

Qualifications

• Education - B.E/B.Tech (Civil), preferably with project management /construction management certification from reputed Institute.
• +8 years of work experience with demonstrated career growth graph.
• Sound Knowledge and experience of project management.
• Ability to lead, coordinate & organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.
• Desire to work outside of core function and support the onsite team where needed.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Develops good working relationships with project team.
• Expert experience level using project scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera), Excel, PowerPoint.
• Desirable to have scheduling experience in commercial real estate projects.

Additional Information

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