The Planning Manager develops and controls the complete project schedule for Water Treatment Plant projects, ensuring execution within contractual timelines, budget, and resource targets.
The role coordinates among:
- Engineering
- Procurement
- Construction
- Client/Consultant
- Vendors/Subcontractors
- Commissioning teams
Typical project types:
- WTP (Water Treatment Plant)
- STP (Sewage Treatment Plant)
- ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant)
- RO/UF/Desalination Plants
- Pumping stations & pipelines
- Prepare:
- Baseline schedules
- Master schedules
- Look-ahead plans
- Recovery schedules
- Develop project timelines using:
- Define:
- WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
- Activity sequencing
- Critical path
Typical EPC phases covered:
- Engineering
- Procurement
- Manufacturing
- Delivery
- Civil execution
- Mechanical erection
- Electrical & instrumentation
- Testing & commissioning
- Track:
- Daily/weekly/monthly progress
- Productivity
- Resource deployment
- Prepare:
- DPR/WPR/MPR reports
- S-curves
- Histograms
- Earned Value reports
- Compare planned vs actual progress
- Identify:
- Delays
- Bottlenecks
- Critical activities
- Conduct:
- Delay analysis
- Impact assessment
- Mitigation planning
- Prepare:
- Catch-up schedules
- Acceleration plans
Coordinate with:
- Engineering team for drawing releases
- Procurement for material delivery
- Site team for execution progress
- QA/QC for inspections
- Commercial team for billing milestones
- Present progress review reports
- Attend review meetings
- Prepare dashboards and MIS
- Support claims/EOT documentation
- Monitor:
- Manpower
- Equipment
- Material availability
- Support cost control through schedule integration
- Forecast completion timelines
- Primavera P6
- MS Project
- Excel advanced reporting
- EPC scheduling
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Resource loading
- Delay analysis
- EVM (Earned Value Management)
Good understanding of:
- WTP process systems
- Civil works
- Piping
- Mechanical erection
- Electrical & instrumentation
- Commissioning activities
Typically:
- B.E./B.Tech in:
- Civil
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- Chemical Engineering
Preferred:
- PMP certification
- Primavera certification
