Senior Project Planner Engineer

Your future role

As a Senior Project Planner Engineer, you will take ownership of project planning and control activities from the initial project kick-off through fabrication and completion. You will translate project requirements into practical execution plans, schedules, manpower requirements, material requirements, budgets, and measurable milestones. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced manufacturing or heavy-industry environment, analyzing project data, challenging delays, identifying bottlenecks, and working with different teams to recover project performance when necessary.

Key Responsibilities

1. Project Planning: Develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, budgets, manpower, materials, and resources to ensure projects are completed on time.
2. Progress Monitoring: Track daily and weekly project progress, compare planned vs. actual performance, monitor KPIs, and identify delays or issues early.
3. Cost Control: Monitor project costs for labor, materials, consumables, equipment, and subcontractors to keep spending within budget.
4. Risk Management: Identify potential risks and delays related to engineering, materials, procurement, production, manpower, and subcontractors, and take action to minimize their impact.
5. Reporting & Communication: Prepare clear project progress, cost, KPI, and forecast reports and communicate project status, issues, and actions to management and stakeholders.
6. Take-Off & BOM: Review drawings, prepare material take-offs and Bills of Materials (BOM), calculate material requirements, and coordinate with Procurement to ensure materials are available on time.
7. Fabrication & Production Planning: Coordinate with workshop and production teams to plan and monitor fabrication activities, manpower, materials, equipment, and production targets.
8. Meeting Leadership: Lead daily production and project meetings, review progress and issues, assign action items, and follow up to ensure timely completion.
9. Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve planning, productivity, cost control, reporting, and project execution while promoting best practices and teamwork.

Skills & Experience

• Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field with 10+ years of experience in project planning, project control, project management, or a similar role.
• Alternative Qualification: Senior High School (SMA/SMK) graduates with 15+ years of relevant experience in manufacturing, fabrication, or heavy industry are also encouraged to apply.
• Heavy Industry Experience: Experience in plate fabrication, heavy fabrication, manufacturing, or workshop supervision is highly preferred.
• Project Planning Skills: Strong ability to develop project schedules, monitor progress, manage resources, and ensure projects meet planned deadlines.
• Cost Control: Able to calculate and monitor costs for labor, materials, consumables, equipment, and subcontractors, and identify potential cost overruns.
• Material & BOM: Experienced in preparing material take-offs and Bills of Materials (BOM) and coordinating material requirements with Procurement.
• Technical Knowledge: Good understanding of structural steel, process piping, modular structures, heavy plate fabrication, and manufacturing processes.
• Engineering Drawings: Able to read and understand mechanical and fabrication drawings; knowledge of AutoCAD is an advantage but not mandatory.
• Computer Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, Outlook, and MS Project; knowledge of MS Access/database systems is an advantage.
• Leadership & Communication: Strong communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively with Engineering, Production, Procurement, Quality, and Project teams.
• Meeting & Coordination Skills: Confident in leading daily production meetings and project kick-off meetings, setting actions, following up progress, and keeping teams aligned.
• Working Under Pressure: Able to manage multiple priorities, solve project issues, meet tight deadlines, and work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• English: Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Job location: Batam, Indonesia.

We offer the successful candidate

• Supportive, dynamic, professional, and evolving company
• Growth and career opportunities working in a global organization