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We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Scheduler / Project Planning Engineer to support the planning, monitoring, and control of a complex EPC / industrial project. The role is responsible for developing and maintaining integrated project schedules, coordinating interfaces across disciplines and partners, and providing reliable schedule analysis to support project decision-making.
The position requires strong planning expertise, confident stakeholder coordination, and excellent English communication skills for working with international project teams, clients, consortium partners, contractors, and suppliers.
- Develop, maintain, and control integrated project schedules covering engineering, procurement, fabrication, manufacturing, logistics, erection, commissioning, and related project activities.
- Review contractual and execution requirements, including milestones, assumptions, constraints, interfaces, planning obligations, approved baselines, and re-baselining processes.
- Coordinate with internal teams, consortium partners, vendors, subcontractors, and client representatives to collect progress data and maintain accurate schedule updates.
- Perform critical path, float, risk, delay impact, forecast, and what-if analyses to identify schedule deviations and support project decisions.
- Propose mitigation, acceleration, or recovery measures in coordination with project management.
- Prepare schedule and progress reporting, including schedule updates, milestone tracking, look-ahead schedules, variance analyses, S-curves, dashboards, forecasts, and management summaries.
- Support project controls, risk management, cost control, performance monitoring, change management, and contractual schedule reporting by providing reliable schedule input and impact assessments.
Profil
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- Over ten years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and project controls, preferably in EPC, industrial, energy, hydrogen, oil & gas, petrochemical, power generation, or other capital-intensive projects.
- Hands-on experience with Primavera P6 is obligatory, additionally Microsoft Project would be beneficial.
- Strong understanding of project scheduling and project controls, including critical path methodology, baseline and schedule control, progress measurement, earned value management, schedule risk analysis, and recovery planning.
- Experience in forecasting, performance reporting, change management, contractual schedule reporting, and assessing schedule impacts, including Extension of Time (EoT) requirements arising from contractual or project-related changes.
- Proven experience coordinating schedules in consortium, joint venture, or multi-contractor EPC environments with complex interfaces between partners, contractors, suppliers, and client representatives.
- Experience preparing management reports, S-curves, milestone reports, look-ahead schedules, dashboards, forecasts, and executive progress summaries.
- Excellent written and spoken English is mandatory.
- Ability to prepare clear schedule reports, planning inputs, presentations, and management summaries in English.
- Ability to communicate confidently with international project teams, clients, consortium partners, contractors, and suppliers.
- Strong facilitation skills for planning meetings, schedule reviews, and guide peers and progress discussions across organizational and cultural interfaces.
- Experience in hydrogen, electrolysis, renewable energy, process plants, industrial manufacturing, or modular package delivery projects.
- Additional exposure to large-scale international EPC projects with complex partner and subcontractor interfaces would be advantageous.
- Hands-on involvement in delay analysis, claims support, or forensic schedule review would be an advantage.
- PMP, PMI-SP, or similar project management / scheduling certification would be an advantage.
- Familiarity with ERP systems such as SAP or Microsoft Dynamics would be beneficial.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and reliable in handling large volumes of project data.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across different management levels and ability to drive alignment without direct authority.
- Confident communicator who can challenge schedule inputs constructively.
- Able to work in a fast-paced project environment with multiple priorities and under pressure.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally when required and able to stay abroad for particular period as per project and company demands.
