In technical department consist of Planning Engineer: A role of a Planning Engineer is to mainly support the

Project Manager and Project team with information to execute the project in time and within the budget
allocated. This information is used by Project Managers in taking decisions for a smooth execution of the
project.

A planning engineer creates the information required by first detailing the activities involved in the project,
fitting those in the timelines, calculating the materials, manpower and machinery required to execute these
activities in the time frame decided.

Since there are always deviations in the plan, the planning engineer also has to take periodic updates and revise
the schedules to meet the targets.

I know these things look like textbook definitions, So I will simply put the Roles & Responsibilities of the
Planning Engineer in General for your better understanding.

1. Preparation of Project Schedule (Tools used: Primavera, MS Project etc.,) covering entire scope and
within defined timelines

2. Calculating Optimal Material requirement, Manpower Requirement (of various trades) & Machinery
Requirement

3. Plan for budget required for the project and create various budget heads to document and monitor the
expenses

4. Create Cashflow analysis (ie., Expected billing (cash inflow) vs Expected cash outflow)

5. Co-ordinate with various departments like Engineering (who provides working drawings), Procurement
(who buys materials), Contracts (who awards contracts & raise any issues with the client), quality (who
maintains ) & Commissioning Departments

6. Collect periodic updates and prepare daily, weekly and monthly updates of the project

7. Create variance reports (Schedule Variance and Cost Variance - usually Earned Value Method (EMV) is
used for this) at various stages of the project to analyse deviations

8. Create Project Closing Reports and Learnings