FACULTY - PLANNING & SCHEDULING

Teaching and Facilitation

• Deliver approximately 400 teaching/facilitation hours per year, depending on the programme mix and other academic responsibilities, across PDA, Planning Capability programmes, SCDMs, Master Classes, IC-specific programmes and other IPM initiatives.
• Facilitate classroom, virtual and blended learning programmes.
• Use L&T and industry project examples to connect concepts with actual project situations.
• Coach and mentor participants and support application of learning to their projects wherever relevant.

• Design, develop and continuously improve learning content, case studies, project exercises, simulations, assessments, tools and checklists related to Planning & Scheduling.
• Incorporate contemporary project management practices, digital technologies and relevant L&T practices and lessons from projects into programmes.
• Develop new learning interventions in response to emerging business and project capability needs.
• Contribute to documenting project experiences and converting them into reusable learning material.

• Work with IC/SBG HR teams, Planning Heads, Project Directors, Project Managers, academic partners, Professors of Practice (PoPs), Associate Professors of Practice (APoPs), SMEs and other stakeholders.
• Engage with project teams and business leaders to understand emerging capability requirements.
• Visit projects, where required, to understand planning practices, execution challenges and learning needs.

• Support the academic planning and delivery of PDA and other IPM programmes.
• Work with Programme Coordinators and IPM teams for effective programme delivery.
• Review participant feedback, assessments and programme outcomes and use them to improve content and delivery.
• Contribute to IPMs knowledge repository, case studies, publications and thought-leadership activities.
• Support IPM events, project-management forums and institutional initiatives.
• Contribute to digital learning and responsible adoption of AI and technology-enabled learning tools where relevant.

The Candidate Should Have Strong Knowledge And Practical Experience In Several Of The Following Areas, With Planning & Scheduling And Project Controls As The Core Requirement

• Project Planning & Scheduling
• Primavera P6 and/or comparable enterprise planning systems
• Development of integrated EPC schedules
• Work Breakdown Structures, milestones and schedule logic
• Project Controls
• Engineering, procurement and construction interface planning
• Resource Planning and Optimisation
• Progress Measurement, Monitoring and Control
• Look-ahead planning and constraint management
• Delay Analysis and Schedule Recovery
• Earned Value Management
• Project Risk Management
• Construction Planning
• Schedule forecasting, reporting and management decision support
• Planning for commissioning, completion and project close-out

• The role requires travel to IPM locations, L&T businesses and project sites as required for programme delivery, project engagement and capability-development initiatives.