Planning Engineer

People Profilers Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits package

Performance bonus

Job summary

People Profilers Pte Ltd invites a seasoned Planner/PMO professional to join our PMO team in Singapore. You will lead bid and project PMO activities, control budgets and schedules, and coordinate with civil and signalling contractors. The role requires Primavera P6 expertise, LTA/SMRT project exposure, and SAP by Design experience.

The position offers a 1-year renewable contract with benefits. You will drive schedule integrity, resource loading, and monthly reporting while supporting EAC reviews

Qualifications

• 5 years of planning/PMO experience
• Rail/transportation industry experience required
• Primavera P6/Core Module experience mandatory
• LTA/SMRT project experience with signalling priority
• SAP by Design or equivalent ERP experience
• MS Excel/Word/PowerPoint proficiency
• 1 year renewable contract with full benefits + bonus (subject to conversion)

Responsibilities

• Lead PMO activities within bids and projects
• Manage project control and execution
• Maintain execution budget baseline from bid to close-out
• Maintain WBS structure and cost centres in ERP
• Maintain baseline schedule and progress with milestones
• Ensure accurate resource loading
• Attend external coordination meetings with third-parties
• Develop what-if schedules and EOT assessments
• Produce project reporting and dashboards
• Support monthly EAC and Bottom-Up Estimates reviews
• Maintain risks and opportunities registers
• Prepare country-level PMO consolidation and resource forecasts

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

PMO support

Budget control

MS Excel

Education

Degree in business or engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

SAP byDesign

MS Office

Job description

• Lead key Project Management Office (PMO) management activities as a member of the delivery teams in charge of Bids and Projects assigned.
• Project Control & Execution management
• Establish and maintain the execution budget baseline, from bid phase, to project transition until project close-out
• Establish and maintain the project WBS structure in the company ERP. Establish and maintain the cost centres/charges codes for the work packages and proper assignment to resources
• Establish and maintain the baseline schedule and progress (including Key Milestones), from bid phase, to project transition until project close-out
• Establish and maintain an accurate resource loading
• Attend the external coordination meetings with project third-parties (civil contractors, system-wide contractors, etc.)
• Develop adhoc schedule what-if scenarios requested by the projects/bids, including Extension of Time (EOT) assessments, as when and needed.
• Project Reporting
• Establish and maintain the Project roadmaps, key milestones, critical path analysis and resource S-curve in support to the Project Managers (PMs) and Work package Managers (WPMs)
• Contribute to the customer monthly reporting and dashboard for schedule matters
• Attend the customer monthly progress reviews for schedule matters
• Coordinate the project monthly actuals and variance review with the WPMs and PMs
• Establish and maintain the internal project dashboards
• Actively support the Project monthly EAC reviews and quarterly Bottom-Up Estimates (BUE) reviews
• Risks & Opportunity Management
• Establish and maintain the Risks register including the mitigation plan in support to the WPMs and PMs
• Establish and maintain the Opportunity register including the implementation plan in support to the WPMs and PMs
• Contribute to establish the annual margin improvement plan for assigned projects
• Contribute to the PMO activities consolidation at Country level as a member of the PMO department, including but not limited to:
• Resource Management
• Establish and maintain the consolidation of the resource forecasts view at country level across the departments
• Lead the preparation of the monthly resource planning reviews

Requirements

• 5 years of relevant experience as a planner / planning engineer / scheduler and PMO support, ideally degree qualified in business or engineering.
• Specific rail/transportation industry experience is required.
• Hands-on Primavera P6/Core Module experience is mandatory.
• Strong project planning/scheduling experience is required; experience in cost/project controls is an advantage but not mandatory.
• Prior experience with LTA/SMRT projects is required, with Signalling experience being the top priority. Experience with COMS/SCADA is also highly valued.
• Experienced using SAP by Design (or equivalent ERP).
• Well versed in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• 1 year renewable contract with full benefits + bonus (subject to conversion)
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All Successful candidates can expect a very competitive remuneration package and a comprehensive range of benefits.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified