Job Description

Planning and Scheduling Lead

Swedium Global Services is the growing System Engineering and Solution Company, offers services like Semiconductor Engineering R&D Services, Embedded Systems Development, Custom Application Software Development, Web and Cloud Application Development, Testing Services, Consultancy and Outsourcing services to our clients across the globe for an onsite and offshore business model. Swedium Global is having presence in Sweden, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic and in India.

The Lead Planning & Scheduling is responsible for maintaining and managing the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for the assigned area, ensuring alignment with project milestones, interfaces, dependencies, and execution priorities. The role supports project controls and management teams by providing accurate scheduleanalysis, performance reporting, risk identification, and forward-looking insights to enable effective decision-making and proactive issue resolution.
 
The position is primarily based at the construction site and requires close engagement with field execution teams to validate progress, understand constraints, and ensure schedule performance accurately reflects site conditions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Planning Governance & Assurance
• Act as the Owner's focal point for planning and scheduling within the assigned area.
• Review, challenge, and assure EPCM and contractor schedules for quality, completeness, logic integrity, and compliance with project standards.
• Conduct schedule health checks and ensure adherence to planning and scheduling best practices.
• Verify that planning assumptions, interfaces, constraints, and execution strategies are accurately reflected in area schedules.
• Ensure progress measurement and reporting are implemented consistently across the assigned area.
• Integrated Planning & Scheduling
• Develop, maintain, and manage the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for the assigned area.
• Integrate EPCM, contractor, and stakeholder schedules into the area schedule.
• Ensure alignment between area schedules and overall project milestones and objectives.
• Maintain schedule logic, dependencies, interfaces, and critical milestones relevant to the assigned area.
• Perform schedule updates, analysis, and forecasting based on actual site progress and emerging risks.
• Site Execution Support
• Work closely with construction, engineering, commissioning, and contractor teams to validate progress and schedule performance.
• Participate in site reviews, coordination meetings, and planning workshops.
• Identify schedule risks, constraints, and opportunities and support the development of mitigation and recovery plans.
• Ensure reported progress accurately reflects physical progress achieved in the field.

Education and Certifications

• Relevant degree in engineering, construction management, or related field.
• All relevant certificates that are needed to do the job.
• Option to include area-specific requirements

Experience

Experience in project planning and scheduling within large-scale industrial or infrastructure projects.

Experience managing integrated schedules and working within complex, multi-disciplinary project environments.

Competences and Skills

List the key competences and skills needed for the role, for example:
• Strong knowledge of planning and scheduling methodologies and tools.
• Experience with Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS).
• Understanding of schedule risk analysis and QRA processes.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders and delivery areas.