Your role
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Scheduling
- Develop, lead and manage comprehensive project schedules using Primavera P6, ensuring compliance with the Client /Region specific guidelines/standards.
- Plan and sequence project activities across all phases, including design, procurement, and construction.
- Conduct Critical Path Analysis (CPA) and propose mitigation measures to maintain project timelines.
- Prepare detailed 4-week and 8-week lookahead programs and integrate them into the master schedule.
- Perform regular updates and integrity checks on project schedules, ensuring alignment with Client /Region specific Scheule Management Manual & DCMA criteria.
- Identify key dependencies and assess project risks to develop mitigation strategies.
- Ensure integration of cost, schedule, and resource plans.
- Track milestones and ensure adherence to key delivery timelines.
- Identify schedule variances and recommend corrective actions.
- Guide team in preparation of S-curves, EV reports, dashboards, and schedule analytics.
- Support project teams with cost-loaded schedules and conduct Earned Value Analysis (EVA) to track project performance.
- Identify potential schedule risks and incorporate risk mitigation strategies, including quantitative risk analysis (e.g., Monte Carlo simulations).
- Implement and manage change control processes as per NH guidelines to adjust Performance Measurement Baselines (PMB) for scope or schedule variations.
- Provide strategic input in meetings, addressing technical planning challenges.
- Support delay analysis, impact assessment, and time extension claims.
- Collaborate with planning engineers to improve planning methodologies.
Cost Management & Controls
- Develop, lead and manage budgeting, forecasting, cost monitoring, and financial reporting activities.
- Establish and manage Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) aligned with the WBS.
- Provide detailed cost reports that highlight any discrepancies between actual costs and forecasted budgets, ensuring that project stakeholders are informed promptly.
- Analyze cost variances and trends to recommend corrective actions.
- Prepare earned value assessments and monthly cash flow forecasts.
- Standardize and automate tools for pricing, estimation, and cost tracking.
- Generate financial dashboards and visual reports to present cost trends, highlighting cost savings, potential risks, and areas requiring attention.
- Ensure compliance with organizational cost governance processes.
- Support early warnings, change orders, and client negotiations.
Performance Reporting & Analytics
- Produce and review weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc project performance reports.
- Create and present accurate reports, including Schedule Narratives, Key Milestone Variance Reports, and Program Review Reports (PRR).
- Develop, track, and report KPIs across cost, schedule, quality, and risk.
- Ensure high-quality, consistent reporting standards across all deliverables.
- Generate Power BI dashboards for progress visualization and stakeholder communication.
- Preparation and Submission of Monthly Progress Report, Program Attributes List, Change logs, S Curves and CPA Reports, Variance Reports, Trend Analysis reports, EVM dash Boards Etc.
- Present project performance insights to senior management and clients.
- Analyse large datasets and convert insights into actionable recommendations.
About you
Minimum Requirement
- Minimum 10 15 years of project delivery experience in engineering consultancy, design, or project management environments.
- Bachelor s/Master s degree in Engineering: Civil, Mechanical, Construction Management, Building Technology, or related field.
- Excellent communication, client-facing, presentation, and report-writing skills.
- Strong organizational skills, ability to work under pressure and adapt to change.
- Strong project management acumen and experience in cost & schedule governance.
- Ability to propose innovative solutions, processes, and working methods.
Desired Requirements / Technical Expertise
- Subject Matter Expertise in Planning / Project Controls.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and MS Project.
- Experience in delay analysis, impact assessments, and baseline development.
- Proficiency in Cost Management tools (EcoSys preferred).
- Deep knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM), CBS, budget control, cash flow, contingency management, and change control.
- Experience in baseline creation, progress tracking, and CL31, CL32 & CL62 schedule analysis.
- Experience with global (UK, US, Middle East) transportation, infrastructure, E&M projects.
- Knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contracts.
- Experience in large-scale Enterprise Project Management environments.
Data Analytics & Power BI Expertise
- Advanced Power BI development, including dashboards, data models, DAX, and custom analytics.
- Ability to analyze large datasets and convert insights into actionable recommendations.
- Experience with ETL design, automation, and BI system optimization.
- SQL proficiency for data retrieval and transformation.
- Experience in automation using VBA, Python, or web technologies is a plus.
- Strong understanding of O365 productivity suite
Certifications (Preferred)
- Relevant certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP), AACE s Certified Cost Professional (CCP), or PMI s Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)
- Primavera / EcoSys Certifications
- Chartered status or equivalent professional certifications (e.g., RICS, PMP) is added advantage.
- Other relevant project controls or construction management credentials
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership and people management capability
- Client-centric approach
- Analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to influence and manage conflict
- Proactive problem solving
- High emotional intelligence and team motivation ability
Desired Candidate Profile
- Minimum 10 15 years of project delivery experience in engineering consultancy, design, or project management environments.
- Bachelor s/Master s degree in Engineering: Civil, Mechanical, Construction Management, Building Technology, or related field.
- Excellent communication, client-facing, presentation, and report-writing skills.
- Strong organizational skills, ability to work under pressure and adapt to change.
- Strong project management acumen and experience in cost & schedule governance.
- Ability to propose innovative solutions, processes, and working methods.
- Subject Matter Expertise in Planning / Project Controls.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and MS Project.
- Experience in delay analysis, impact assessments, and baseline development.
- Proficiency in Cost Management tools (EcoSys preferred).
- Deep knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM), CBS, budget control, cash flow, contingency management, and change control.
- Experience in baseline creation, progress tracking, and CL31, CL32 & CL62 schedule analysis.
- Experience with global (UK, US, Middle East) transportation, infrastructure, E&M projects.
- Knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contracts.
- Experience in large-scale Enterprise Project Management environments.
- Advanced Power BI development, including dashboards, data models, DAX, and custom analytics.
- Ability to analyze large datasets and convert insights into actionable recommendations.
- Experience with ETL design, automation, and BI system optimization.
- SQL proficiency for data retrieval and transformation.
- Experience in automation using VBA, Python, or web technologies is a plus.
- Strong understanding of O365 productivity suite
- Relevant certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP), AACE s Certified Cost Professional (CCP), or PMI s Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)
- Primavera / EcoSys Certifications
- Chartered status or equivalent professional certifications (e.g., RICS, PMP) is added advantage.
- Other relevant project controls or construction management credentials
- Strong leadership and people management capability
- Client-centric approach
- Analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to influence and manage conflict
- Proactive problem solving
- High emotional intelligence and team motivation ability