Project Planner

Project Control, Project Monitoring

Key duties and responsibilities include:

• Manage all aspects of planning, scheduling, and programming of work.
• Lead planning input on assigned projects, including managing contributions from other planners to ensure consistent and effective delivery aligned with scope, time, cost, and quality requirements.
• Establish baseline schedules and control procedures and monitor progress to ensure early identification of issues.
• Provide progress and earned value reports to support financial forecasting and enable timely corrective actions.
• Assist senior planners in monitoring project risks, issues, resource allocation, and CPM analysis; support the project controls manager in keeping with WSP and client standards.
• Support project planning, scheduling, and control inputs for estimating and tendering activities, ensuring relevant issues, actions, and risks are addressed.
• Promote a high-performance culture aligned with WSP values by actively participating in performance management and contributing to the professional growth of team members.
• Contribute to the planning and control strategies of assigned projects, including the development of standards, procedures, dashboards, and progress reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by the Line Manager or Head of Department (HOD) within the GCC PMCM team.

Key Competencies / Skills

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong expertise in project scheduling and proven experience with planning tools such as Primavera P6, Primavera Risk Analysis, and Microsoft Project.
• Solid understanding and application of Critical Path Analysis, Earned Value Techniques, and general project management principles.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and Word for creating tools and dashboards to support stakeholder communication.
• In-depth knowledge of project scheduling philosophies, principles, practices, and techniques.
• Experience reviewing and ensuring the quality of junior planners' work; excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Power BI for reporting and visualisation.

• Ability to mentor and guide junior planners to deliver planning outputs on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

• Minimum: Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.

• Typically, 5 to 8 years of relevant experience in project scheduling.
• Certification in project management (e.g., CAPM, PMP, or PRINCE2).
• Preferred: Additional qualifications in Project Management or Construction Management.

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Transportation & Infrastructure, Property & Buildings, Earth & Environment, Power & Energy, Resources and Industry sectors, as well as offering strategic advisory services. Our talented people around the globe engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

With approximately 4,000 talented people across 3 locations (Noida, Bengaluru & Mumbai offices) in India and more than 73,000 globally , in 550 offices across 40 countries , we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

At "WSP" we draw on the diverse skills and capabilities of our employees globally to compete for the most exciting and complex projects across the world and bring the same level of expertise to our local communities. We are proud to be an international collective of innovative thinkers who work on the most complex problems. Unified under one strong brand, we use our local expertise, international reach and global scale to prepare our cities and environments for the future, connect communities and help societies thrive in built and natural ecosystems. True to our guiding principles, our business is built on four cornerstones: Our People, Our Clients, Our Operational Excellence and Our Expertise.

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• Passionate people doing purposeful and sustainable work that helps shape our communities and the future.
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At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

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