Job description
Cyient is a global engineering and technology solutions company. As a Design, Build, and Maintain partner for leading organizations worldwide, we take solution ownership across the value chain to help clients focus on their core, innovate, and stay ahead of the curve. We leverage digital technologies, advanced analytics capabilities, and our domain knowledge and technical expertise, to solve complex business problems.
With over 15,000 employees globally, we partner with clients to operate as part of their extended team in ways that best suit their organization’s culture and requirements. Our industry focus includes aerospace and defence, healthcare, telecommunications, rail transportation, semiconductor, geospatial, industrial, and energy.
Job Description
The role of the Engineering planner is to produce and maintain detailed plans which show the milestones and full scope of work for engineering projects/functions. Track progress and provide reports and analysis which enable Engineering Project or Function Managers to deliver their commitments on time and within budget. Develop mitigating actions where the programme is at risk.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create and maintain Engineering plans which reflect project milestones, the full scope of work to be carried out and the required resources. Ensure that the plan is aligned to the design product structure DPS and aligned to internal Engineering financial systems.
- Track and report progress against baseline, identify critical issues, produce project status reports and KPI’s
- Support Project and Function managers in ensuring that project time, resource and budget parameters are met by providing early warning of potential threats to the programme. Monitor risks and opportunities, develop mitigating actions.
- Support Team Leaders in producing detailed 5 and 20 day plans, assigning individuals to tasks and managing resource loading.
- Participate in the continuous improvement of the Engineering planning and management processes
KEY SKILLS:
Planning skills (MUST have):
- Knowledge of tools: Primavera P6. Ability to generate/manage robust schedule and resource plan.
- Analysis skills: Ability to recognise variation to baseline plan, identify/understand root cause.
- Project management: Specifically risk and opportunity management. Ability to identify risks and manage mitigation in the plan. Able to anticipate threats to the programme and provide early warning, enabling preventative action.
- Identify/support implementation of planning standardisation.
Business acumen (MUST have)
- Understanding of functional/work package alignment – enables robustness of schedule.
Interpersonal skills (MUST have):
- Communication: clear and effective communication at all levels.
- Team player, able to deal with people from different disciplines at all levels.
- Good written and spoken communication skills and the ability to present management information effectively in a variety of formats
- Able to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines.
- Leadership skills: Ability to provide leadership skills in managing project plan.
OTHER SKILLS:
- Understanding of project status, customer needs and priorities and the ability to obtain project information from various sources.
- Experience in the application of earned value, scenario planning and risk analysis techniques.
- Knowledge and understanding of the relevant tools and processes (change control, risk management, project management etc.)
- Understand the meaning and implications of key financial indicators.
Skills & Experience
Engineering Management, Project Management, Project Planning
Cyient is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Cyient recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive company where our people can focus their whole self on solving problems that matter.
Cyient
www.cyient.com
Hyderābād, India
Krishna Bodanapu
$500 million to $1 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Information Technology Support Services
1991