Planning Engineer | 400 kV+ Transmission Line & Substation Projects | PMC Role

We are currently hiring experienced Planning Engineers for a permanent PMC (Project Management Consultancy) role with exposure to 400 kV and above Transmission Line and Substation Projects.

Position: Planning Engineer – Transmission Line & Substation Projects

Role: Planning / Project Controls – PMC

Experience: 8–12 Years

Qualification: B.E. / B.Tech in Civil / Electrical Engineering

Employment: Permanent

Project Sector: Power Transmission & Substation

Project Voltage: 400 kV and above

Work Locations

Open positions are available at

• Kutch, Gujarat
• Jamnagar, Gujarat
• Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Pune, Maharashtra
• Important: Candidates must be flexible and willing to work at any of the above locations, depending on project requirements.

Role Purpose

The Planning Engineer will work as a PMC Planning Representative and will be responsible for establishing, reviewing, monitoring, and controlling integrated project schedules for high-voltage transmission line and substation packages.

• The role will involve close coordination with contractors, client teams, engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning teams to ensure timely project execution and accurate progress reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the PMC planning representative for transmission line and substation packages.
• Review contractor WBS, baseline schedules, activity logic, durations, calendars, constraints, milestones, and resource loading.
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules covering:
• Engineering
• Procurement
• Construction
• Testing
• Commissioning
• Energisation
• Handover
• Establish and monitor progress measurement methods based on BOQ, Schedule of Values, contractual milestones, and verified site quantities.
• Prepare and review daily, weekly, monthly, two-week and three-month look-ahead schedules.
• Prepare and monitor S-curves, resource histograms and milestone trackers.
• Verify contractor-reported physical progress against actual site records and coordinate with engineering, procurement and construction teams.
• Monitor critical and near-critical paths and identify delays, slippages and constraints.
• Recommend corrective actions, recovery schedules and acceleration measures.
• Track:
• Drawing approvals
• Long-lead materials
• Manufacturing
• Dispatch
• Site receipt
• Work-front readiness
• Package interfaces
• Support extension-of-time and delay claim assessments through event chronology, contemporaneous records and schedule-impact analysis.
• Prepare MIS reports, dashboards, schedule narratives, risk registers and project forecasts.
• Present planning updates and key project issues during management/project review meetings.
• Coordinate with multiple stakeholders to ensure timely completion of project milestones.
• Required Project Experience
• Candidates must have hands-on planning/project-controls experience in:
• 400 kV and above Transmission Line Projects
• 400 kV and above AIS/GIS Substation Projects
• High-voltage power transmission projects
• Substation civil, structural, electrical and commissioning activities
• Preference will be given to candidates with experience in PMC, Owner’s Engineer, Client-side or EPC project environments.
• Technical Skills Required

Strong working knowledge of

• Primavera P6
• MS Project
• Advanced MS Excel
• Schedule development and baselining
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Progress measurement and monitoring
• Resource planning
• S-Curve preparation
• Delay analysis
• Recovery/acceleration planning
• Procurement monitoring
• Risk and constraint tracking
• MIS and management reporting
• Preferred Candidate Profile
• The ideal candidate should have 8–12 years of proven planning and project-controls experience in high-voltage transmission line and substation projects.

The candidate should be capable of independently:

• Reviewing and challenging contractor schedules
• Validating baseline programmes
• Reconciling reported progress with actual site progress
• Identifying critical and emerging delays
• Preparing recovery plans
• Monitoring procurement and construction interfaces
• Forecasting project completion
• Preparing accurate MIS and management reports
• Coordinating with contractors, clients and multiple project stakeholders
• Candidate Eligibility

Mandatory

• 8–12 years of relevant Planning / Project Controls experience
• Experience in 400 kV+ Transmission Line and/or Substation Projects
• Good knowledge of Primavera P6 / MS Project
• Strong project scheduling and progress-monitoring experience
• Willingness to work at Kutch / Jamnagar / Mumbai / Pune
• Must be comfortable with any project location based on business requirement
• Willing to join a permanent role