Lead - Project Planning & Control

About Business

Adani Group: Adani Group is a diversified organisation in India comprising 10 publicly traded companies. It has created a world-class logistics and utility infrastructure portfolio that has a pan-India presence. Adani Group is headquartered in Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, India. Over the years, Adani Group has positioned itself to be the market leader in its logistics and energy businesses focusing on large-scale infrastructure development in India with O & M practices benchmarked to global standards. With four IG-rated businesses, it is the only Infrastructure Investment Grade issuer in India.

Adani Realty: Adani Realty is the real estate arm of one of India’s leading infrastructure and development entities – Adani Group. With resolute commitment to ‘Nation Building’ and ‘Growth with Goodness’, we are developing real estate projects in the most promising destinations, integrating design aesthetics with cutting-edge construction technology.

Job Purpose

The Lead – Project Planning & Control will be end-to-end responsible for schedule, progress and resource control on the project: validating baselines and progress measurement through the PMC, governing the critical path, constraints and look-ahead plans to trigger early warnings and recovery plans, providing integrated reporting for leadership decisions, ensuring changes are time-impact assessed, and maintaining decision and action logs to keep execution unblocked. The role reports to the Head – Project.

Key Responsibilities

• Review the GC master schedule, milestone plan and logic; validate sequencing and the critical path.

• Drive look-ahead planning and the constraint log; coordinate constraint removal with PMC/GC and track closures.

• Validate the progress measurement method (quantities / earned progress) and ensure accurate, consistent reporting.

• Monitor manpower and equipment mobilisation plans and flag gaps that affect milestones.

• Maintain integrated dashboards and prepare governance packs for weekly and monthly reviews.

• Support time impact analysis for changes and variations; maintain baseline and revision-history discipline.

• Demand recovery plans for slippages, track their effectiveness and escalate unresolved risks.

• Maintain the decision log, action tracker and escalation ageing; ensure closure SLAs are met.

• Work closely with internal teams (PMO, Design, Procurement, QS, Quality, Safety, CRM) and external partners (PMC, GC, contractors, consultants, testing agencies, vendors and local authorities).

Experience & Qualifications

• B.E. / B.Tech / Diploma in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical or Construction disciplines.

• PMP, Primavera, quantity surveying, fit-out or execution-specific certifications preferred.

• 8–16 years of total experience, including 5–12 years in project planning and control.

• Background with real estate developers, EPC companies, general contractors, PMCs, fit-out contractors or project-led organisations across residential, commercial, infrastructure, interiors or mixed-use projects.

• Strong site sensibility, schedule discipline and comfort working through multiple partners.

Location: Mumbai