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BRL-PRJ-03 · Projects & EPC Construction
Project Controls & Planning Engineer
Corporate Pune / Hybrid · Hybrid 4–7 years · Mid
Build and maintain the schedules, cost reports and earned value metrics that tell BARREL's leadership exactly where each project stands. You turn site progress into honest forecasts and give project managers an early warning before delays become penalties.
Scope of work
- Develop baseline schedules in Primavera P6 for generation, storage and transmission projects with a clear work breakdown structure.
- Integrate engineering, procurement and construction activities and their logic into one schedule.
- Update schedules weekly from site progress and produce look-ahead plans.
- Run critical path and float analysis and flag activities at risk.
- Track cost against budget, commitments and forecast at completion for each project.
- Calculate earned value metrics and explain variances to project managers.
- Prepare delay analysis and time-impact assessments for extension-of-time and variation claims.
- Produce the monthly portfolio dashboard for the management review.
- Configure schedule and cost data flows between Primavera P6 and BARREL OS.
Technical description
- Primavera P6 EPPM: WBS, activity coding, resource and cost loading, baselines and layouts.
- Earned value management to ANSI/EIA-748 principles, with SPI and CPI reporting.
- Schedule quality checks to the DCMA 14-point assessment.
- Delay analysis methods such as time-impact analysis and windows analysis, following AACE recommended practices.
- Cost estimate classification aligned with AACE International recommended practice 18R-97.
- Power BI or an equivalent tool for dashboards, and advanced Excel.
Commercial description
- Give accurate forecasts at completion so cash flow and contingency decisions are made on real numbers.
- Support claims and counter-claims with documented schedule evidence.
- Help protect projects from SCOD penalties by highlighting slippage early.
- Work with finance on milestone billing and revenue recognition.
Skills required
- Primavera P6 scheduling to an advanced level.
- Earned value analysis.
- Cost tracking and forecasting.
- Critical path and float analysis.
- Delay and time-impact analysis.
- Dashboard design for executives.
- Data handling in Excel and Power BI.
- Understanding of EPC sequences in power projects.
- Clear writing of monthly progress reports.
Talent we look for
- You report the truth, especially when it is uncomfortable.
- You enjoy finding patterns in messy data.
- You are meticulous about logic and version control.
- You can push a site team for updates without making enemies.
Qualifications
- B.E./B.Tech in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
- Four or more years of project controls in power, infrastructure or EPC.
- Primavera P6 certification or demonstrable advanced use.
- PMI-SP or AACE PSP certification is an advantage.
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