Planning Coordinator

Description

Job Summary: Planning Coordinator responsible for ensuring excellence in contract planning and control, serving as a strategic liaison. Key Highlights: 1. Coordinate contract planning and optimize service execution. 2. Promote cross-departmental integration and drive continuous improvement. 3. High impact on business decisions and autonomy to structure processes. **Job: Planning Coordinator** KL Engenharia is seeking a Planning Coordinator responsible for ensuring excellence in contract planning and control, acting as the strategic link between clients and operations. This professional will be tasked with structuring, monitoring, and optimizing schedules, resources, and performance indicators—ensuring predictability, execution efficiency, and adherence to agreed timelines and costs. If this describes you, this opportunity is for you. **Your challenges will include:** * Coordinating contract planning by developing physical\-financial schedules, execution plans, and operational strategies; * Monitoring physical and financial progress of contracts, analyzing deviations, and proposing corrective and preventive actions; * Acting as the interface among operations, PMO, and senior management to ensure alignment on schedule, cost, and scope information; * Consolidating and tracking performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure predictability and support decision-making; * Structuring and monitoring progress curves, balance lines, and other planning and control tools; * Supporting the operations team in resource allocation, activity sequencing, and optimization of service execution; * Ensuring standardization of planning processes, methodologies, and tools in collaboration with the PMO; * Monitoring measurements from a planning perspective (adherence to planned vs. actual); * Promoting integration across technical, administrative, and financial departments to ensure data consistency; * Driving continuous improvement in planning, control, and project management processes. **Requirements** * Proven experience in planning, management, supervision, or control of infrastructure projects of similar scale to water conveyance systems, with focus on physical\-financial planning and control; * Postgraduate degree (MBA, specialization, master’s, or doctoral degree) in Project Management, Project Governance, or related fields; * Project management certification is considered a strong advantage, such as PMP (Project Management Professional), IPMA (Levels C, B, or A), or PRINCE2 Practitioner; * Experience in developing, monitoring, and controlling schedules; performance analysis; timeline and cost management; and supporting decision-making in engineering projects; * Willingness to relocate outside the city/state, as required by the company. **Desired Profile:** * Analytical, data-driven profile with strong ability to transform information into actionable plans and decision-support insights; * Systemic business vision; * Leadership and influence capabilities; * Organization and discipline; * Proactivity and critical thinking to identify risks, deviations, and improvement opportunities; * Clear and concise communication skills, with ease in interacting with clients, senior management, and technical teams; * Strategic mindset focused on predictability, operational efficiency, and business value creation; * Results-oriented, committed to deadlines, information quality, and data reliability; * Adaptability to dynamic, growing environments with ongoing process structuring. **What You’ll Get:** * Market-competitive remuneration; * A growing and evolving work environment offering space to implement planning methodologies and improvements; * High impact on business decisions, with active participation in strategy definition and prioritization; * Autonomy to design planning and control processes, tools, and routines; * A results-, data-, and continuous-improvement-oriented culture; * Integration with multidisciplinary teams and cross-functional organizational involvement; * Professional development opportunities and career advancement in project management. ➡ Please submit your salary expectation. Minimum Education Level: Postgraduate \- Specialization/MBA