Project Planner - Project Management Office

Ramboll India Pvt Ltd; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Investment in your development

Leadership guidance

Long-term career with Ramboll

Job summary

Ramboll India Pvt Ltd seeks a Project Planner, PMO for its Gurgaon-based REC. You will coordinate cross-discipline teams, manage interfaces, and develop schedules using Primavera P6 and MS Project. The role emphasizes earned value, baselines, and proactive communication with stakeholders.

You have a 3–5 year background in civil/transport planning, strong English, and familiarity with IT tools and dashboards for project reporting. This position offers growth within a global engineering network.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional experience in project controls or planning.
• Should preferably have worked in a similar role with good process understanding.
• International consultancy experience would be an added advantage.
• Sound knowledge of project management and planning and fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate between disciplines, documentation, and folders, ensuring compliance with specifications.
• Initiate and coordinate interface management, develop org chart, and track internal deliverables weekly.
• Review scope documents to meet client requirements and ensure integrated, coordinated solutions.
• Manage projects, reporting, and control using Earned Value Analysis and related tools.
• Develop and monitor schedules and WBS, aligning with contract deliverables and resources.
• Interact with team leads to define scope, update schedules and cost data, and identify variances.
• Analyze critical path and constraints to assess change impact and propose workarounds.
• Establish project baselines and monitor progress; provide health, delays, and resource insights.
• Support project managers with look-ahead planning and day-to-day project information.
• Ensure timely submissions and monitor budgets and change management.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Project management knowledge

Education

B.Tech/M.Tech in Civil/Structural/Transportation Engineering or MSc in Construction/Project Management

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

Primavera P6

Power BI

Job description

Project Planner, PMO, REC

Company Description

About Ramboll Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a foundation-owned people company. We have more than 18,000 experts working across our global operations in 35 countries. Our experts are leaders in their fields, developing and delivering innovative solutions in diverse markets including Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health, Energy, and Management Consulting. We invite you to contribute to a more sustainable future working in an open, collaborative, and empowering company. Combining local experience with global knowledge, we together shape the societies of tomorrow. Ramboll in India Ramboll has more than 1,000 experts working across five offices in India applying their passion to deliver innovative solutions in markets as diverse as Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health and Energy. Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a people company. We invite you to contribute to a sustainable future working in an open, collaborative and empowering culture.

Job Description

As our new Project Controls/Project Planner , you will be part of a world-class, innovation-driven Engineering Design Centre owned by an independent trust and its employees. REC is a highly sophisticated centre of engineering excellence based in our India head office in Gurgaon. Working in partnership with all our established offices globally, the Ramboll Engineering Centre (REC) is a centre of excellence in design, offering optimised solutions to the rest of the organisation.

• Coordinating between various disciplines, documentation, and folder structures, ensuring compliance with specifications through the team leads of the respective disciplines.
• Initiating and coordinating the interface management process, including the development of the organisation chart and interface matrix, and tracking the progress of internal deliverables through weekly visual planning meetings using visual planning tools.
• Periodically reviewing scope documents to maintain focus on meeting the client’s requirements and success factors, in addition to ensuring the solution is integrated and coordinated.
• Project management, reporting, and control through tools such as Earned Value Analysis.
• Development, updating, and monitoring of project schedules and work breakdown structures, considering contract deliverables and resourcing needs using tools such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Interacting with the project team and task managers to define the scope of work, develop and update schedules and cost information, and identify variances from the original plan.
• Analysing the critical path and constraints to determine the effect of changes to the schedule and recommend workarounds.
• Establishing Project Baselines at the start of the Project and track it on a timely basis as required.
• Supporting project managers with key information related to project health, performance against baselines, delays, resources, communication, look‑ahead planning, and other day‑to‑day project information.
• Timely delivery of project submissions including resource management.
• Monitoring the budgets and additional scopes through change management.
• Keep stakeholders well informed regarding the project status at regular intervals.

Qualifications

Your starting point for constant growth From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company.

• Must possess a B.Tech/M.Tech in Civil, Structural, or Transportation Engineering, or a master’s/PG qualification in Construction Management or Project Management, with 3–5 years of professional experience.
• Should preferably have worked in a similar role and have a very good understanding of the processes.
• International consultancy experience would be an added advantage.
• Sound knowledge of Project Management and Planning.
• Must be highly competent in written and verbal English language.
• Demonstrated experience in collaborating within teams to successfully develop multiple projects concurrently.
• Proficient team player, with experience of managing relationships with multiple stakeholders, thereby fostering their involvement and engagement.
• Must possess excellent organisational and communication abilities to ensure understanding of project plans and solutions.
• Should be a competent user of IT tools, in particular MS Office and reporting tools such as MS project, Primavera P6, and Power BI.
• Wider knowledge of other disciplines is highly desirable.
• Should be able to conduct project reviews to identify issues and risks and plan mitigations accordingly.
• Should be able to coordinate with all project members to gather project data and efficiently convert it into information and reports.
• Should be well versed in project reporting, dashboards, client instructions, control and review plans, and managing all communications as the single point of contact for the project team.
• Should have supported the project manager/project team in implementing project management systems and project control measures such as Earned Value Analysis and other project control techniques.

Additional Information

Welcome to our Transport division Ramboll is a global transportation consultancy, and we work on some of the biggest and most innovative infrastructure projects in the world. We are close to 3,000 bright minds working within Transport worldwide, creating practical, sustainable, and economic solutions for national transport authorities, private contractors, and municipalities alike.

What we can offer you

• Investment in your development
• Leaders you can count on, guided by our Leadership Principles
• Be valued for the unique person you are
• Never be short of inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
• The long‑term thinking of a foundation‑owned company
• Work at the heart of sustainable change

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. We believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. At Ramboll, our core strength is our people, and our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act. Being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. We embrace an inclusive mindset that looks for fresh, diverse, and innovative perspectives. We respect, embrace, and invite diversity in all forms to actively cultivate an environment where everyone can flourish and realise their full potential.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion is at the heart of what we do We believe in the strength of diversity and know that unique experiences and perspectives are vital for creating truly sustainable societies. Therefore, we are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone can flourish and reach their potential. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and encourage you to contact our recruitment team to discuss any accommodations you need during the application process.