Project Planner

As a Project Control and Project Monitoring professional, your main responsibility is to manage all aspects of planning, scheduling, and programming of work for assigned projects. You will be leading the planning input, establishing baseline schedules, and control procedures, and monitoring progress to ensure early identification of issues. Your role will also involve providing progress and earned value reports to support financial forecasting and enabling timely corrective actions. In addition, you will assist senior planners in monitoring project risks, issues, resource allocation, and CPM analysis. You will support project planning, scheduling, and control inputs for estimating and tendering activities, ensuring that relevant issues, actions, and risks are addressed promptly. Your contribution to the planning and control strategies of assigned projects will include developing standards, procedures, dashboards, and progress reporting for internal and external stakeholders. To excel in this role, you must possess strong expertise in project scheduling and proven experience with planning tools such as Primavera P6, Primavera Risk Analysis, and Microsoft Project. You should have a solid understanding and application of Critical Path Analysis, Earned Value Techniques, and general project management principles. Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and Word are essential for creating tools and dashboards to support stakeholder communication. Moreover, you should have in-depth knowledge of project scheduling philosophies, principles, practices, and techniques. Preferred skills for this role include experience with Power BI for reporting and visualization and the ability to mentor and guide junior planners to deliver planning outputs on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. As for qualifications, a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field is required, along with 5 to 8 years of relevant experience in project scheduling. Certification in project management (e.g., CAPM, PMP, or PRINCE2) is necessary, and additional qualifications in Project Management or Construction Management are preferred. If you are looking for a challenging role where you can contribute to the success of projects by effectively managing planning, scheduling, and control aspects, this position offers you the opportunity to utilize your skills and experience in a dynamic environment.,