Planning & Controlling 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 mentioned 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 as 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 deliverables.
• Devising strategies to overcome roadblocks or delays through various methods such as using industry-related technical knowledge, innovating shortcuts 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.