Project Planning Engineer, Electrical Management

Job Summary

The Project Planning Engineer is responsible for the effective planning, scheduling, and monitoring of electrical projects. This role ensures timely completion of projects by coordinating with engineering, procurement, and construction teams. The engineer must understand project scope, timelines, resources, and cost control while applying knowledge of electrical systems and equipment.

Job Description

• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for the project. Understand the list of plans required to execute the assigned project sub-elements and their interface to other sub-elements. Develop the activities, logic, risk management resources and progress for the assigned project sub-elements, leading to the creation of the baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance. Explore the opportunities for improvement in an efficient and timely manner.
• Collaborate with other Divisions such as Operations, Projects, Supply Chain, HSSE, HCM and external stakeholders (including regulatory bodies suppliers) design consultants, third party inspector and vendors as required to integrate all time, cost and scope to support monitoring of project progress. Review and approve and / or recommend submission project schedules, work method statements, shop drawings, material, samples, alternative proposals and other technical reviews.
• Collaborate with electrical engineers / Consultant / Contractor / Grid Power Provider to understand technical drawings and specifications (e.g., SLDs, SCADA layouts, grid interconnection plans ).
• Hands-on experience and a solid understanding of 132kV systems, including the design, installation, testing, commissioning, and maintenance of high-voltage electrical infrastructure.
• Assess and incorporate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from key project targets and milestones, including monitoring productivity and identifying alternative approaches to optimize the plan(s). Prepare technical documentation, reports, and investment proposals / business cases. Review technical proposals from consultants and contractors to ensure alignment with project objectives
• Prepare and participate in client and stakeholder meetings, presenting schedule updates and potential delays.
• Ensure the Contractor's work processes comply with the QA requirements from the award of the Contract to handover.
• Manages subordinates, defines roles and performance metrics, identifies skills gaps and development needs, monitors performance, provides feedback, coaching and counselling, to build competence and reinforce improvements.
• Coordinate with procurement for timely delivery of necessary materials
• Conduct schedule risk assessments for weather delays, permitting issues or electrical interconnection delays and Evaluate impact of change orders and design revisions on project timeline. Propose mitigation strategies and alternative plans. Evaluate the impact of scope changes, variation orders, and delays on project schedules.
• To perform any other duties as directed by the superior from time to time.

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