Power & Utilities Project Management Specialist – Bengaluru

Job Description: Power & Utilities Project Management Specialist

Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 7–11 Years
Qualification: B.E./B.Tech in Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Mode: Work From Office (WFO)
Shift: Rotational
Skill Required: IX Intelligent Capital Project Operations – Low Carbon Grid Capital Projects

Job Summary

We are looking for a Capital Projects Scheduling Specialist to support investment project planning and scheduling for power and grid infrastructure programs that enable the energy transition. The role will focus on developing and maintaining Primavera P6 schedules for capital projects involving transmission interconnections, grid assets, and other complex infrastructure.

The successful candidate will ensure effective schedule integration across planning, engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities. The role also involves monitoring project milestones, evaluating schedule risks, conducting time impact assessments, and providing accurate reporting to support project delivery and investment management decisions.

Candidates with experience in utility infrastructure, transmission and distribution, power projects, or hyperscale data centre programs will be preferred.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

1. Develop and maintain integrated Primavera P6 schedules for capital projects involving power, grid, and infrastructure assets.

2. Create WBS structures, activity networks, logical relationships, resource assumptions, project milestones, and baseline schedules.

3. Coordinate with project teams to integrate engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning schedules.

4. Monitor schedule performance, critical path activities, milestone completion, and forecast project dates.

5. Evaluate schedule risks arising from procurement lead times, engineering deliverables, construction dependencies, and commissioning activities.

6. Perform schedule impact assessments and support recovery plans for delayed or at-risk activities.

7. Conduct schedule scenario modelling and optimization to evaluate alternative execution strategies.

8. Validate progress updates and perform schedule quality checks to maintain reliable project data.

9. Prepare schedule analytics, performance dashboards, progress reports, and management presentations.

10. Support risk reviews, project governance meetings, and discussions with scheduling leads and global stakeholders.

11. Maintain scheduling standards, documentation, version control, and data integrity across assigned projects.

12. Identify opportunities to improve schedule management processes, reporting consistency, and operational efficiency.

13. Coordinate across multidisciplinary teams to resolve scheduling conflicts and delivery dependencies.

14. Manage assigned scheduling activities and support overall project objectives under management guidance.

Required Skills

• 7–11 years of experience in project scheduling and planning for capital or infrastructure projects.

• Strong hands-on experience with Primavera P6.

• Expertise in schedule development, baseline management, WBS, activity sequencing, and critical path analysis.

• Understanding of power generation, transmission and distribution, grid infrastructure, or major construction projects.

• Knowledge of engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning schedules.

• Experience in schedule risk analysis, time impact assessments, progress validation, and recovery planning.

• Proficiency in Excel-based schedule reporting and project analytics.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and multi-project coordination skills.

• Ability to work with global stakeholders and manage rotational shifts.

Preferred Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech in Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering.

• PMP, PMI-SP, or Primavera P6 certification preferred.

• Exposure to low-carbon grid capital projects, transmission interconnections, utility investments, or hyperscale data centres is desirable.

Candidate Profile

Candidates should possess strong technical scheduling skills and a sound understanding of the infrastructure project lifecycle. They must be able to translate project updates into reliable schedules, identify risks to delivery milestones, and provide actionable insights to support capital project execution and energy infrastructure investment programs.

Work Arrangement: Full-time, Work From Office, Bengaluru, with rotational shifts.