Planning Engineer [Industrial Projects]

INP

Planning & Scheduling

• Understand project s documents, SOW and project s requirements.
• Ensure adequate involvement/engagement of key parties and/or stakeholders to ensure smooth and realistic planning for the project.
• Break down projects into work breakdown structures (WBS), work packages and logic-driven activities.
• Create and maintain overall project s plans/schedules using related software (i.e., Primavera P6, or equivalent).
• Develop tentative schedules, baseline schedules, revised and recovery schedules whenever needed/required.
• Define milestones, dependencies, constraints, resources, and durations.
• Review / approve project s plans, schedules with the assigned project manager/site manager/construction manager and relevant influencing parties.
• Discuss, explain the created project s plans/schedules with related parties to ensure full understanding, get approvals, etc. whenever needed/required.

Follow-Up & Progress Monitoring

• Collect periodic progress data/information (i.e., daily/weekly/monthly) from construction teams, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Identify critical path for effective follow-up/tracking and performance measurement and/or evaluation.
• Update project schedules/plans, progress curves (i.e., S-curve), earned value metrics, and productivity reports.
• Identify schedule slippages, critical path risks, and potential improvement/opportunities (i.e., acceleration, etc.).
• Discuss, explain the updated project s plans/schedules and progress/performance reports with related parties to ensure full integration and engagement of project s parties/stakeholders whenever needed/required.
• Provide support, advice for project s team in case of management of emergencies, recovery and corrective plans whenever needed/required.
• Monitor/track project s resources (i.e., resources usage, allocation, etc.) and provide recommendations for optimization (whenever needed).

Change Management

• Maintain live robust change log and assess schedule impact of variations/deviations for better tracking and control.
• Review and analyze site instructions, change requests/orders and study their impact on project s schedule.
• Reschedule after approved changes and communicate implications to relevant stakeholders.
• Distribute/escalate impacted plans to relevant internal/external parties/stakeholders in adequate time for approval and/or decision making.
• Maintain Change Register with accountable owners and due dates and distribute it to relevant internal/external parties/stakeholders in reasonable time.
• Participate in delay analysis/changes evaluation/measuring process with Contract department whenever needed.

Reporting & Communication

• Produce regular progress/performance reports (i.e., daily/weekly/monthly) with clear visuals: Gantt charts, milestones, and performance metrics.
• Present schedule status updates to project teams and clients, highlighting risks and recommended corrective/mitigation actions.
• Maintain and distribute look-ahead schedules (i.e., one-month look-ahead) and recovery plans.

Risk & Contingency Management

• Identify schedule risks, develop mitigation actions/plans, and track their efficiency/effectiveness.
• Maintain contingency buffers and scenario analyses for potential delays/changes.

Coordination & Collaboration

• Liaise with relevant internal/external parties/stakeholders to achieve integration/engagement and align on sequences and lead times.
• Coordinate with subcontractors to align their schedules and integrate them into the project s master schedule/plan.
• Attend and contribute to project s meetings (i.e., planning, coordination, and progress review meetings).

Data Quality & Systems

• Ensure data integrity in scheduling software and reporting databases.
• Standardize data inputs, nomenclature, and progress measurement methods.
• Recommend and implement process improvements for planning governance.

Compliance & Quality

• Ensure schedules comply with contract requirements, standards, and project specifications.
• Ensure implement and compliance with planning & follow-up procedures/processes.
• Support audits and quality reviews related to schedule governance.
• Ensure that project s documents/records are well prepared, organized, filed in neat and tidy condition, and all are distributed and circulated according to the approved communication plan/matrix.

Training, Process Improvement & Knowledge Management

• Develop training on planning & follow-up.
• Continuously improve processes, templates, and system usage.
• Capture lessons learned and promoted best practices across projects.