Senior Planning Engineer

INTECH Automation Intelligence is seeking a Senior Planning Engineer to join its Project Monitoring and Control team. This role is critical in leading project planning, scheduling, progress measurement, and project controls for complex EPC projects within the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Utilities, and Manufacturing sectors. The ideal candidate will bring 6 to 10 years of experience in EPC project planning, with strong skills in Primavera P6, integrated scheduling, progress forecasting, and project controls. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to proactive project management that ensures visibility, accountability, and quality throughout all project phases.

Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain integrated, resource-loaded, and cost-loaded project schedules using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, ensuring alignment with contractual milestones and execution strategies.
- Coordinate schedules across engineering teams, consultants, procurement, fabrication subcontractors, construction, and commissioning activities.
- Review and validate consultant and subcontractor schedules, track engineering deliverables, and ensure progress updates align with approved baselines.
- Create manpower plans and resource forecasts, identify constraints, and recommend adjustments to support smooth project execution.
- Establish progress measurement systems integrating schedule, cost, and man-hour data for earned value and performance analysis.
- Analyze critical paths, schedule variances, and project trends; forecast completion dates and proactively identify risks and potential delays.
- Develop and monitor recovery plans, including schedule resequencing and resource adjustments, to safeguard contractual milestones.
- Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, S-curves, look-ahead schedules, and performance dashboards using advanced Excel and Power BI.
- Assess schedule impacts of scope changes and disruptions, supporting delay analysis and extension-of-time submissions in collaboration with Project Management and Commercial teams.
- Maintain project baselines, revisions, progress records, and reporting documentation through SharePoint or approved collaboration platforms.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- 6 to 10 years of experience in planning, scheduling, and project controls for EPC projects, including structural fabrication.
- Proven ability to manage integrated project schedules from engineering and procurement through fabrication, construction, commissioning, and handover.
- Experience coordinating engineering teams, consultants, procurement, and subcontractors, including deliverable tracking and schedule reviews.
- Working knowledge of structural fabrication milestones and their interfaces with engineering, procurement, inspections, and delivery.
- Strong proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, advanced Excel, and Power BI; familiarity with SharePoint and project collaboration tools.
- Solid understanding of Critical Path Method (CPM), S-curves, resource and cost loading, earned value management, schedule risk assessment, recovery planning, and delay analysis.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, bills of quantities, contractual milestones, and project controls requirements.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, presentation, and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Strong ownership, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities while meeting deadlines and escalating risks proactively.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- PMI-SP, PMP, or equivalent planning/project management certification is preferred.
- EPC experience in Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, or industrial projects is advantageous.

INTECH offers global exposure through international projects and collaboration with worldwide teams. The compensation package is competitive and includes an annual performance bonus. Additional benefits include in-house lunch, health insurance covering OPD for employees and their parents, IPD for employees and dependents, and access to training programs for continuous skill development. The company promotes work-life balance with paid time off and holidays and fosters an inclusive environment that values diversity and teamwork.

Joining INTECH means becoming part of a globally recognized industrial automation and digitalization technology leader with nearly 30 years of experience partnering with major oil and gas companies. Employees are positioned at the forefront of Industry 4.0 innovations, working on transformative technologies that address real-world challenges.

INTECH Automation Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive hiring process that encourages qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, to apply. The recruitment process is designed to be fair and transparent, ensuring alignment between candidate skills and company needs.