Team Lead/ Senior Principal Project Planner

Company Description

Ramboll has more than 1,000 experts working across five offices in India applying their passion to deliver innovative solutions in markets as diverse as Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health and Energy. Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a people company. We invite you to contribute to a sustainable future working in an open, collaborative and empowering culture.

Job Description

You will join our REC department

As our new Team Lead/ Senior Principal Project Planner, you will be part of a world class, innovation driven engineering design centre owned by an independent trust and its employees. Ramboll Engineering Centre (REC) is a highly sophisticated center of engineering excellence and based in our India head office in Gurgaon. Working in partnership with all our established offices globally, REC is a Centre for excellence in design by offering optimized solutions to the rest of the organization.

Your key tasks and responsibilities will be:

Technical Responsibilities

• Leading a team of Project Planners & BIM Coordinators and should be able to share knowledge and develop the team skills and competence.
• Co-ordinate between various disciplines, documentation, folder structure, ensuring compliance with specification through design lead of respective disciplines.
• Develop and implement Design Strategies - develop and implement successful design strategies, outlining how the design team will create deliverables and implement them for the project.
• Manage Interfaces – Senior Principal Project Planner/Principal Project Planner initiate & coordinate for interface management process that includes development of Organisation Chart, Interface matrix, RACI Matrix, tracking progress of internal deliverables through weekly visual planning meetings using visual planning tools.
• Project Management, Reporting and controlling through tools like Earned Value Analysis.
• Development, Updating & Monitoring of Project & Design Schedules, and Work Breakdown Structure considering contract deliverables and resourcing needs using tools like Primavera P6, Microsoft Project
• Interact with Project Team and task managers to define the scope of work to develop and update develop and update schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan
• Analyze Critical Path and constraints to determine effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-around
• Establishing Project Baselines at the start of the Project and track it timely basis as required. Preparation of S-curves, Schedule variances, Project Dashboard, etc.
• Supporting Project Managers with all Key information related to the health of project, performance as per Baselines, delay, resources, communication, look ahead etc and other information in day to day working
• Timely delivery of project submissions including Resource Management
• Monitoring the budgets and additional scopes through Change Management
• Implementation of QA/QC procedures & compliance to ISO requirements
• Conducting design reviews for identifying the issues, assessing the progress, risks & plan for mitigation
• Keep Stakeholders well informed on the project status at regular intervals

Managerial Responsibilities

• Leading a team of 10-12 planners, BIM coordinators and Design Managers
• Mentor and assist team members in career planning
• Work towards achieving team’s target billing ratio and budget hours by regular coordination with PBU counterparts and REC colleagues
• Ensure all REC delivery process and quality check procedures are followed
• Ensure the team is using efficient work process for the delivery and implement ways to enhance delivery efficiency
• Building a harmonious work environment and motivate team by being a role model
• Promote continuous development, enhance team competency and expand team capability through trainings
• Manage team members by setting performance and development goals and ensure overall team performance. Perform performance appraisals at regular intervals as set by REC.
• Provide HoD with required data for audits, Dept. KPIs, presentations, reports, etc. as and when required.
• Responsible for conducting interviews and grow team

Qualifications

• Must possess B.Tech/ M.Tech in Civil/Structural/Transportation Engineering or Masters/ PG in Construction Management/ Project Management with 8-12 years of professional experience
• Should have preferably worked in similar role and have a very good understanding of the processes. Nordics experience would be an advantage.
• Sound knowledge of Design Management & Project Planning
• Must be highly competent in written and verbal English language
• Must possess sound knowledge on understanding Design Basis report.
• Should have an experience of delivering design packages for high value complex projects
• Must possess profound design experience in any of the building/ transport/ water market
• Should be passionate about engineering with an attitude of absolute intolerance for non-compliance in relation to people safety, environment or product quality.
• Should be committed to both their work and personal development, with a willingness to widen their experience and knowledge base.
• Should be able to work in a team and support, mentor and develop team members
• Working towards Chartered Engineer (CEng)/ PMP or able to prove progression towards Chartership/ Certification
• Should be a competent user of IT Tools in particular Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint and scheduling and reporting tools like MS Project, Primavera P6, PowerBI etc.
• Desirable to have knowledge of one of the designing & collaboration tools like AutoCad Civil 3D, Navisworks, Bluebeam, MicroStation, etc.
• Should have an experience of managing a team of several planners, designers, evaluating individual design deliverables and overall team performance. Should also deliver critical feedback where needed and encourage team members throughout the duration of a project.
• Wider knowledge of other disciplines is highly desirable.
• Should be able to conduct design reviews for identifying issues & risks and thus plan for their mitigations.
• Should be well versed with Project Planning & Design Management work like Scheduling (Design & Project schedule), Project Tracking, Logical interlinking of activities, WBS, identifying Critical Path on the project.
• Should be able to coordinate with all Project members to gather project data and should efficiently convert it into Information & reports.
• Should be versed with Project reporting, Dashboards, Client instructions, Control & review plan, managing all communications as single point of contact for Project team.
• Should have supported Project manager/ Project team in implementing Project Management Systems and Project Control measures like Earned value Analysis and other Project control techniques.

Additional Information

Welcome to our Buildings division

Ramboll is among the top 10 building designers in the world. Annually, we work on more than 10,000 building projects, and we combine local insights with a global network of bright minds with specialist expertise. Together, we challenge assumptions in the interest of creating more practical, sustainable and economic building designs.

Ramboll in India

Ramboll has more than 1,000 experts working across five offices in India applying their passion to deliver innovative solutions in markets as diverse as Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health and Energy. Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a people company. We invite you to contribute to a sustainable future working in an open, collaborative and empowering culture.