Project Manager - Planning

Turner & Townsend; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Opportunity for career growth

Inclusive workplace culture

Job summary

A leading project management firm is seeking a Scheduler in Mumbai. The role involves advanced scheduling, progress measurement, and risk analysis for Data Center projects. Candidates should have a B.E/B.Tech degree and 8+ years of experience, including at least one project life cycle in Data Centers. Excellent communication skills and hands-on experience with project scheduling tools like MS Project and Primavera are essential. This position offers a dynamic environment emphasizing teamwork and a commitment to diversity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of work experience with a demonstrated career growth graph.
• Experience in the life cycle of at least 1 Data Center project.
• Ability to coordinate and organize multiple schedule inputs.

Responsibilities

• Implement scheduling strategy and procedures.
• Analyze deviations from the baseline schedule.
• Prepare and present project status reports.

Skills

Project management

Scheduling expertise

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Risk analysis

MS Project proficiency

Primavera expertise

Education

B.E/B.Tech (Mechanical/Electrical/Civil)

Project management/construction 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.

Our purpose: Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

Our values: Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time.

Stronger together: We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone.

Bring out the best in everyone: We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice.

Job Description

The Scheduler functions include advanced scheduling, progress measurement, change management implementation and analysis that may involve a major Data Center projects. 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 (MEchanical/Electrical/Civil), preferably with project management /construction management certification from reputed Institute.
• +8 years of work experience with demonstrated career growth graph.
• Proven experience of an entire life cycle of at least 1 Data Center Project would be preferred.
• 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

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/