A template for planning engineers who build the schedule, read the critical path, and defend the programme.
Planning engineers are the control room of a project. They sit in project controls or the PMO and turn thousands of activities into a logical Primavera P6 schedule, then measure real progress against the baseline, analyse the critical path, and forecast slippage before it happens. On major infrastructure and building projects, where the schedules are complex and the penalties are large, delay analysis and extension-of-time support have become skills worth their weight. A normal week runs on progress updates, the S-curve, the management report, and the lookahead. The work rewards engineers who read the numbers precisely and raise them before they become a crisis.
Planning Engineer with 9 years in project controls on major infrastructure and building projects. Ran the Primavera P6 schedule for a GBP 700M project and supported an approved 90-day extension-of-time claim through documented critical-path analysis. PMI-SP certified.
P6 mastery and reporting discipline. "Ran the P6 schedule for a GBP 700M project and supported an approved 90-day EOT" beats "experience in planning".
Primavera P6, baseline, critical path, float, S-curve, earned value, delay analysis, extension-of-time claims, and the lookahead schedule.
Confusing the planning role with the site role, or listing P6 with no delay analysis or earned value behind it.
One to two pages. Start with project values and your certificate, such as PMP or PSP. Show real schedules and the claims you supported.
Figures in USD. Ranges reflect mid-level experience (3–7 years). Senior roles and major metro areas typically sit at the top of these bands.
Project-controls teams at main contractors and PMCs (Mace, Turner & Townsend, Balfour Beatty, Atkins) want P6 mastery, reporting discipline, and delay analysis. Certificates like PMP, PMI-SP, or AACE PSP set you apart. Keep the terms in plain form: Primavera P6, EVM, EOT, S-Curve, PMP.
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