Planning Engineer

•Develop and maintain resource capacity models for IX engineering teams, considering skills, availability, leave, training, and non-project activities.

•Prepare resource loading plans aligned with project schedules, engineering deliverables, and forecasted workloads.

•Identify over-allocation, under-utilization, and skill constraints, and propose optimization or reallocation strategies.

•Provide short-, medium-, and long-term resource forecasts to IX leadership and PMT.

•Prepare weekly and monthly resource utilization reports (planned vs actual) at individual, discipline, and departmental levels.

•Analyze timesheet and hours data to generate actionable insights on productivity, efficiency, and workload trends.

•Develop and maintain management dashboards highlighting utilization, forecast accuracy, and key risks.

•Provide data-driven inputs during IX, PMT, and management review meetings.

•Develop and maintain high-level engineering schedules using Primavera /ZOHO, aligned with resource plans

. •Integrate engineering, procurement (RFQs, IRs, POs), FAT, iFAT, and T&C activities into planning views.

•Monitor key milestones and highlight schedule impacts caused by resource constraints.

•Support preparation of recovery plans in coordination with IX delivery leads.

•Identify resource- and cost-related risks impacting project delivery.

•Proactively flag high-risk areas and recommend mitigation actions.

•Maintain governance over IX KPIs, including utilization, forecast accuracy, and cost variance

. 7. Process Improvement & Automation

•Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Instrumentation / Electrical / Electronics / Control Systems or related field)

•Project Planning or Project Controls certification is an added advantage

•3-5 years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and control for engineering or EPC projects

•Hands-on experience with Primavera P6, MS Project

• ZOHO project scheduling and progress tracking (Optional)

•Experience coordinating engineering, procurement, testing & commissioning, and project management teams

•Exposure to Instrumentation, Controls, and SCADA (IX) projects across the project lifecycle