Project Controller

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Expert-level experience with Microsoft Project.
• Familiarity with Touchplan application.
• Lead project management activities.
• Develop and manage CPS in Microsoft Project.
• Understand project scope blocks and develop/manage project schedules in Microsoft Project with minimal supervision, ensuring accurate task durations, sequencing, and resource allocation for complex capacity expansion projects.
• Develop schedules that progressively mature from a feasibility-grade schedule (50% confidence level) to an 80% confidence level within the coming months.
• Analyze schedule impacts of scope, procurement, and execution changes, including:
  • Delayed procurement of equipment.
  • Scope block additions or eliminations.
  • Expediting OEM items or implementing split shipments.
• Evaluate multiple staffing scenarios and their impact on project schedules, such as:
  • 6-day, 8-hour shifts.
  • 5-day, 8-hour shifts.
  • 5-day, 24-hour operations.
• Perform backward planning and pull planning to identify the last responsible moment for critical tasks.
• Prepare schedule summaries for leadership reviews and meetings.
• Analyze schedules and recommend schedule acceleration opportunities.
• Manage Level 2 project schedules in Microsoft Project, ensuring proper durations, sequencing, and resource assignments.
• Lead development activities for equipment, unit operations, or process systems, providing technical expertise.
• Collaborate with team leaders to build, evaluate, and optimize project schedules.
• Conduct regular reviews of critical path, cost loading, schedule logic, relationships, lags, constraints, and milestones.
• Facilitate weekly project schedule review meetings.
• Provide schedule analysis and performance metrics to stakeholders.
• Coordinate with project resources to assess progress, identify risks, and communicate concerns to project managers.
• Assist or lead the creation of comprehensive schedule submissions utilizing the Project Success Method, including resource and cost loading.
• Manage Equipment Status Memorandum (ESM) activities with design firms, equipment vendors, and stakeholders to ensure on-time equipment delivery.
• Monitor delivery risks and communicate schedule impacts on a weekly basis.
• Deliver equipment or process packages as part of a Project Delivery Team.
• Familiarity with Engineering Work Processes (EWP) and document generation.
• Support sourcing plans using sourcing tools.
• Generate and maintain issue logs.
• Experience in packaging and process manufacturing technologies.
• Schedule and coordinate meetings using Microsoft Outlook.
• Ability to read and interpret P&ID drawings, electrical drawings, and applicable standards.
• Demonstrate urgency in maintaining project schedule and cost performance.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Generate and maintain E-Trending reports.
• Strong SAP knowledge for reporting and spend management.
• Experience with purchasing requisition systems or similar tools.
• Support Small Project Funding Packages.
• WBS assignment and management.
• Conduct spending reviews and cost validation.
• Forecast and estimate construction costs.

Skills Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
• 7+ years of project scheduling experience.
• Advanced proficiency in building and maintaining schedules in Microsoft Project ( Mandatory ) .
• Strong understanding of Critical Path Methodology (CPM) and milestone management.
• Knowledge of LEAN scheduling concepts and Touchplan.
• Hands-on experience with Touchplan is an added advantage.
• Understanding of procurement tracking, including ESM/ISM processes.
• Strong knowledge of project costing and cost optimization strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder coordination skills with engineering vendors, construction contractors, and project teams.
• Strong teamwork and communication abilities.

Qualifications:

• Engineering Degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation & Control Engineering (BE/B.Tech/BS/MS).