Planning Engineer

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Job Summary: The professional will be responsible for structuring, maintaining, and controlling project and portfolio schedules, ensuring integration and reliability of information for decision-making. Key Highlights: 1. Responsible for structuring and controlling project and portfolio schedules 2. Ensures integration and reliability of management information 3. Contributes to accelerating the transition toward a more sustainable society Job Description The professional will be responsible for structuring, maintaining, and controlling project and portfolio schedules, ensuring integration among scope, schedule, cost, and resources, as well as the reliability of management information to support decision-making. Key responsibilities include: * Develop, update, and control project schedules based on approved scope, identifying the critical path, key milestones, and interdependencies among activities. * Prepare, analyze, and update S-curves for schedules and notable services, ensuring accurate representation of planned and actual physical progress, as well as consistency with schedules and management reports. * Define, structure, and maintain up-to-date planning foundations, including assumptions, constraints, criteria for measuring physical progress, calendars, construction logic, productivity, and contractual milestones. * Ensure integration among schedule, budget, and resource plan, guaranteeing consistency between planning and control. * Monitor physical and financial progress of projects, identifying schedule deviations and proposing corrective and preventive actions. * Perform performance analysis using planning indicators such as SPI (Schedule Performance Index), as well as trend analyses and schedule forecasts. * Prepare management and executive progress reports, highlighting deviations, trends, schedule risks, and critical project areas. * Monitor and report schedule KPIs, presenting clear, evidence-based recommendations to stakeholders. * Actively participate in planning and monitoring meetings with internal and external teams, promoting alignment across involved departments. * Collaborate closely with engineering, procurement, contracts, cost, and risk departments, ensuring adherence of planning to the overall project schedule. * Implement and disseminate best practices, methodologies, and planning standards aligned with company guidelines. * Develop and implement tools, templates, and processes that optimize schedule management and planning governance. * Monitor integration and consistency of schedules across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring a consolidated portfolio view. * Regularly update schedules to reflect trends, scope changes, replanning, or strategic adjustments. * Provide accurate, reliable, and up-to-date information on project progress to support tactical and strategic decision-making. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Engineering; Proven experience in planning and controlling complex projects within engineering, infrastructure, mining, or heavy industry environments; Advanced proficiency in planning tools—particularly Microsoft Project—applied to construction and schedule control; Experience preparing management and executive reports for stakeholders at various levels; Experience defining and monitoring planning performance indicators (KPIs); Knowledge of project management best practices and methodologies (e.g., PMI, AACE, or similar); Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills with multidisciplinary teams; Proactive, organized, results-oriented profile with systemic vision of projects and portfolios; Advanced Excel; Advanced Power BI; Experience with 4D planning is a plus; Company Description AFRY is a leading European engineering, design, and consulting services company with global reach. We accelerate the transition toward a more sustainable society. As part of the AFRY Group—with over 16,000 specialists worldwide—we work across infrastructure, industry, energy, and digitalization to create sustainable solutions for future generations. We have approximately 1,000 courageous, dedicated, and team-oriented professionals serving over 50 clients across diverse sectors. *Making Future* Additional Information Full availability to work onsite in Pouso Alegre-MG *At AFRY, we engineer change in everything we do. Change happens when brave ideas come together. When we collaborate, innovate technology, and embrace challenging points of view. That’s how we're making future. We are actively looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. Join us in accelerating the transition towards a sustainable future.* Apply information Position Planning Engineer Location Pouso Alegre Country Brazil Reference number REF13672L