Project Planning/Scheduling Engineering Specialist Professional

Hitachi Energy; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Bengaluru seeks a Specialist Professional (P4) to establish baselines and plan workload across multiple engineering projects. You will prepare planning and scheduling reports, define scope, WBS, and responsibility allocations, and work with third parties to ensure realistic schedules and progress data.

You will monitor critical paths, support cost, risk, and procurement processes, and assist the project control team with performance analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule workload across engineering projects.
• Prepare schedules for commissioning and start-up.
• Monitor critical paths and report deviations to Project Managers.
• Collaborate with Line Management to resolve Resource Demand / Staffing Conflicts.

Job description

Responsible for establishing baseline criteria to plan and schedule workload relative to various engineering projects.

Prepares project planning and scheduling status reports and recommends remedial actions. Carries out necessary preplanning to examine scope of work and services, work breakdown structure, engineering quality and quantities, financial and contractual obligations and division of responsibility to control and report on planning and scheduling activities. Works with third parties to ensure plans are realistic and achievable; analyzes third party contractor progress information. Prepares schedules for commissioning and start up. Assist the project control team in establishing a project performance index. A Specialist Professional (P4) is a recognized subject matter expert in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience. Responsibilities typically include: Managing large projects or processes with limited oversight from manager. Coaching, reviewing and delegating work to lower level professionals. Problems faced are difficult and often complex.

Instructions and guidelines

Ensures projects follow sound methodology and execution practices in accordance with internal standard procedures. Ensures that an integrated schedule for the project’s entire scope of work is provided.

• Planning and scheduling

Analyzes project requirements with project team, checks that all essential work activities have been identified in sufficient detail to serve as a basis for developing realistic project schedules. Defines, jointly with the project team, project work aligned to the cost breakdown structure, develops, and maintains properly linked, required role loaded/integrated, baseline and current schedules that provide time phased baseline, actual and forecast data for project. Monitors project progress and regularly analyzes project critical paths to ensure all critical path activities and project milestones are progressed to the plan, notifies Project Managers of any deviations or scheduling issues, and provides input for optimizing resources. When required prepares EOT Schedules and Schedule Analysis to support Project Team. Works together with Line Management Organization to resolve Resource Demand / Staffing Conflicts. Issues progress reports, schedule updates and productivity data on a regular basis and as requested by customers and stakeholders.

• Cost, revenue and cash flow management

Supports the establishment of a baseline plan for cost and cash flow performance measurement. Works with project team to define the necessary resources for project completion, evaluating the work breakdown structure and standard productivity. Where required – create As Sold reference point in Project Control tool suite and generate Original Budget baseline. Reflect Variation Orders in the revised baseline.

• Change management

Works closely with engineering, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, client and contractors to identify potential changes in scope and quantifies the impact of each change in a timely fashion. Revise baseline in line with the approved Variation Orders and Extension of Time request.

• Risk management
• Procurement
• Project reviews
• Stakeholder relations

Risk management: Works with project team to identify and assess the priority of project risks (e.g. schedule, cost and scope risks), and proposes mitigation plans. Analyzes impact of risk on the overall timeline and re-sources. Procurement: Integrates material resource requirements with project schedule and defines procurement activities and order lead times. Regularly communicates with Supply Chain Management team and updates schedules to ensure procurement activities take place in a timely way and lead times are optimized to meet schedule targets. Project reviews: Participates in project reviews. Composes reports and updates all required project data in Project Controls and reporting systems for Management Information and Project Analysis. Communicates project progress and control issues to project management team. Stakeholder relations: Effectively communicates appropriate information to the Project Manager and other stakeholders in a timely manner and to achieve desired understanding.

• Project Portfolio

Ensures at the Portfolio level that project planning activities for the project portfolios are in line with Hitachi Energy instructions and guidelines and are adequate to implement contractual agreements with Hitachi-Energy customers.

• Sales & Operations Planning

Where required: Support Sales & Operations Planning Process. Work together with Sales team to define Planning Scenarios and drive workload data collection process from organization. Chair monthly S&OP Review Meeting.

Publication date : 2026-09-16