Senior Analyst – Capital Project Planning & Controls

Job Title: Senior Analyst – Capital Project Planning & Controls

Skill Required: IX Intelligent Capital Project Operations – Low Carbon Grid Capital
Experience: 5–8 Years
Qualification: B.E./B.Tech in Electrical Engineering
Industry: Power & Energy / Utilities / EPC / Transmission & Distribution
Department: Project Management / Project Controls

Job Summary

We are hiring a Senior Analyst – Capital Project Planning & Controls to support planning, scheduling, progress tracking, risk monitoring, and performance reporting for capital projects in the power and utilities sector.

The role will focus on maintaining project schedules, monitoring key milestones, identifying schedule deviations, assessing project risks, and providing actionable insights to improve delivery performance. The candidate will collaborate with project managers, engineering teams, procurement, and construction stakeholders to ensure projects remain aligned with approved scope, timelines, and governance requirements.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

1. Develop, maintain, and update project schedules, work plans, milestones, and project baselines.

2. Use Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project to monitor project timelines, dependencies, and critical activities.

3. Perform critical path analysis and identify potential delays or schedule conflicts.

4. Track project progress against approved baselines and recommend recovery plans for schedule deviations.

5. Monitor project risks associated with schedule slippage, resource constraints, procurement delays, and execution dependencies.

6. Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning teams to obtain progress updates.

7. Support project risk assessment activities and maintain RAID registers with relevant stakeholders.

8. Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, KPI dashboards, milestone trackers, and management presentations.

9. Analyze project performance data to identify trends, delivery bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.

10. Support Earned Value Analysis (EVA), schedule variance analysis, and project performance forecasting.

11. Assist with resource planning, schedule optimization, and contingency planning.

12. Ensure project planning and reporting activities comply with internal governance standards and applicable utility requirements.

13. Document lessons learned and recommend improvements to project planning and controls processes.

Required Skills

• 5–8 years of experience in project planning, project scheduling, or project controls.

• Experience in Power Utilities, EPC, Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution, or infrastructure projects.

• Hands-on expertise in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.

• Strong knowledge of critical path analysis, schedule baselining, milestone tracking, and schedule forecasting.

• Understanding of project risk management, mitigation planning, and RAID registers.

• Experience in KPI reporting, performance dashboards, and progress analysis.

• Proficiency in Advanced Excel and project reporting tools.

• Knowledge of project cost monitoring, variance analysis, and Earned Value Analysis.

• Understanding of CEA, CERC, and State Utility regulatory frameworks.

• Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.

• Certification in Project Management, Project Controls, or Risk Management is an advantage.

Candidate Profile

Candidates should have strong experience in project scheduling and controls, with the ability to analyze project performance, identify risks, and support corrective action planning. Experience working on transmission and distribution, power generation, or low-carbon grid infrastructure projects will be highly valued.

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