The Senior Planning Manager / Engineer

✈ Role Summary

The Senior Planning Manager / Engineer will be responsible for end-to-end planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control of all structural steel fabrication and erection activities across projects. The role requires strong analytical skills, hands-on planning expertise, and the ability to proactively identify and resolve constraints impacting project schedules. The incumbent will ensure adherence to approved plans on a day-to-day basis and support project teams in achieving timely project delivery.

Key Responsibilities:
1.⁠ ⁠Planning & Scheduling, Develop detailed project schedules for structural steel fabrication, painting, dispatch, and site erection activities.
2.⁠ ⁠Prepare baseline schedules, resource-loaded schedules, and look-ahead plans in line with project requirements.
3.⁠ ⁠Integrate engineering, procurement, fabrication, and erection schedules into a master project plan.
4.⁠ ⁠Define planning logic, milestones, and critical paths for multiple concurrent projects.
5.⁠ ⁠Monitoring & Control: Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly progress against approved plans and schedules.
6.⁠ ⁠Track fabrication outputs, erection progress, manpower deployment, and equipment utilization.
7.⁠ ⁠Identify schedule slippages and conduct delay analysis, including root cause identification.
8.⁠ ⁠Propose and implement corrective and preventive actions to recover delays.
9.⁠ ⁠Coordination & Problem Solving: Coordinate closely with design, procurement, fabrication shop, QA/QC, logistics, and site erection teams.
10.⁠ ⁠Identify and resolve planning hindrances such as drawing delays, material shortages, manpower constraints, or site-related issues.
11.⁠ ⁠Support project teams with planning inputs to optimize productivity and sequencing of activities.
12.⁠ ⁠Reporting & Documentation: Prepare and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports, dashboards, and MIS.
13.⁠ ⁠Develop and manage standard reporting formats, progress charts, S-curves, and productivity reports.
14.⁠ ⁠Prepare and track approval formats related to structural steel activities (fabrication, welding, painting, inspection, erection, etc.).
15.⁠ ⁠Present progress updates and recovery plans to senior management and clients.

✅ Requirements

1.⁠ ⁠Strong knowledge of structural steel fabrication and erection processes.
2.⁠ ⁠Excellent command over project planning and scheduling techniques.
3.⁠ ⁠Proficiency in MS Office, especially MS Excel.
4.⁠ ⁠Hands-on experience with Primavera P6 and/or MS Project.

✅Good to Have

• Certification or formal training in Project Planning / Project Management is an added advantage.

✅Qualification

Bachelor’s degree Mechanical (or equivalent).

✅Experience

Approximately 12+ years in planning roles related to structural steel fabrication and erection projects

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹50,000.00 - ₹80,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Food provided
• Health insurance
• Provident Fund

Work Location: In person