Planning & Cost Control Engineer

The primary role of the project control engineer is to track and coordinate the progress of the project on a day-to-day basis to ensure that the project is on-track. Some of the specific activities in this direction that usually find mention in a project control engineer's job description include:

• Developing and maintaining detailed product schedules
• Monitoring cost and commitment through requisition and invoice review
• Ensuring active engagement of team members by delegation of tasks to the appropriate person both on a long term and on a day-to-day basis
• Ensuring adherence to recommended best practices such as the critical path method based on PERT and the like
• Ensuring adherence to quality standards such a Total Quality Management or Six Sigma by ensuring employees follow quality standards and by using quality control checklists
• Coordination and regulating various meetings such as project progress review meetings, quality circles, and the like
• Application of various project progress methods to ensure the project schedule is on track to meet deadlines or deliverable
• Devising strategies to overcome roadblocks or delays through various methods such as using industry related technical knowledge, innovating short cuts or alternative ways, improvising with available resources, scheduling overtime to meet the deadline, and the like
• Ensuring compliance with safety standards
• Developing and monitoring project cost forecasts