Senior Project Planner - Transmission & Distribution

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Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Professional Primavera P6 & Microsoft Project Planning to join our team. As a consultant, you will work on multiple projects, providing expert planning and scheduling support using Primavera P6 and MSP. This role offers an excellent opportunity to apply your extensive knowledge and experience to ensure the successful delivery of complex projects.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities and duties are listed, but not limited to the following:

• Project planning, including creating schedules and resource baselines for multi-disciplinary projects, from concept to construction phases, using Primavera P6 and MSP.
• Preparing and updating WBS and project schedules, staffing/resourcing plans.
• Identify the critical-path activities for project milestones.
• Verifying actual progress to original plans, monitor schedule deviations and recommend corrective action/work-around any issues that may arise.
• Prepare and update deliverable schedules, track deliverable level progress using DCI or other tools, Prepare variance analysis report, catch-up plans etc.
• Integrate schedule requirements and constraints to establish work sequences for all disciplines or specialties.
• Review schedule data, identify and acquire information needed to complete work/interface between project teams.
• Preparing and updating progress 'S' curves for reporting progress to Client/Management.
• Earned Value management, discipline wise productivity tracking, etc.
• Monitoring, adjusting and updating the cost plan and cash flows accordingly and the consolidating these results in monthly reports.
• Continuously looking for innovations and improvements to manage workload and accomplish deliverables across teams and projects.
• Supporting PM in their daily tasks, as & when required and other Business Management System activities

Candidate’s qualifications/specifications:

• B.E./B.Tech in Engineering
• Minimum 8+ years of working experience in project planning activities using Primavera P6 and MS projects for multi-disciplinary projects.
• Work experience in Design consultancy is preferred.
• Good knowledge on preparing progress reports, reviewing the schedules for deviations and recommending corrective actions
• Knowledge of Design requirements, discipline deliverables, DCI and workflow processes
• Having excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Flexible working
At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• Agile working
• Critical illness and compassionate leave
• Paternity Leave
• Group term life insurance, and Group medical insurance coverage
• Career mobility options
• Short and Long-term global employment opportunities
• Global collaboration and knowledge sharing