Associate Project Planning Engineer

, India

Job Family Group:

Projects

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

April 24, 2025

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

What’s the role

As an Associate Project Planning Engineer, you'll create and maintain project plans, ensuring they are realistic and up-to-date. You'll monitor progress, conduct monthly updates, and analyze critical paths. Your role involves working closely with engineering teams to understand key schedule drivers and find ways to optimize plans. You'll use Shell's tools and processes, prepare benchmarking data, and strive for continuous improvement. Effective communication and collaboration with various stakeholders are essential. Most projects are brownfield, meaning they involve existing facilities, so integration and optimization are crucial for faster, cost-effective delivery.

What you’ll be doing

• Support the delivery and maintenance of consistent and realistic plans and control structures for projects.  Understand and monitor the interfaces between assigned project sub-elements and other sub-elements.  Develop the activities, logic, resources, and progress for the assigned project sub-elements.

• Comply with the planning and progress monitoring procedures.

• Conduct the scheduled monthly progress update, forecast, critical path, and trend analyses for assigned elements, including any impact from interface areas.  Provide input to the status reports and ensure that these include the incorporation of approved changes.

• Liaise with project engineering personnel to assist in a proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers - Assist with the identification of alternate approaches to optimize the plan (s)

• Know the contract key dates, milestones, and Shell plan dates and how they relate to the overall project schedule.  Understand the requirements of the contract sections for planning and progress reporting.  Review and verify contractors' reported progress and incorporate it into scheduled progress updates.

• ·Maintain awareness of critical and sub-critical paths and track float consumption.

• Utilize the Shell standard tools and processes.

• Prepare of input data for benchmarking activities, including comparing with historical performance, industry norms, and established KPIs.

• Proactive demonstration of continuous improvement.

• Effective collaboration and alignment with various stakeholders. Intimate interaction with business partners on the project services support requirement and performance, such as Project Team, Front End Team, Discipline Engineering, Finance, Contracts & Procurement, Wells, and JV Partners.

• Ability to effectively communicate with everyone from contractors to Project Team LT.

• Proactive approach to work and possess a high degree of initiative.

• Most of the projects are brownfield projects. Brownfield projects as opposed to Greenfield are centred on existing facilities. Therefore, integrations and optimizations are key enablers as these projects have a high impact on production and need to be delivered faster at a lower cost.

What you bring

• Engineering/Technologist Degree and/or Certification as a Planning Engineer or equivalent experience.

• At least 2 years refinery or petrochemical industry experience in Portfolio Planning.

• Experience in Planning Engineer positions for portfolio Capital/Maintenance projects

• Works effectively in a Team environment and build consensus & Customer focus.

• Working knowledge of a broad range of Planning tools, and practices specifically in Oil & Gas industry.

• Strong leadership, communication, report-writing, and presentation skills.

• Skill in Primavera P6, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, SAP/ GSAP, Excel.

• Background in Oil and Gas maintenance and operations is an advantage.

• Excellent analytical, oral, and written communication skills

• Preferred experience in following tools: Primavera , PowerBI

• Preferred experience in refinery or petrochemicals plant turnarounds.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and

• international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

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• We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
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Shell in India

Shell is a diversified energy company in India with 13,000 employees, and presence in Integrated Gas, Downstream, Power, Renewable and Upstream. Additionally, we have deep capabilities in R&D, digitalisation, and business operations.

Our global strategy, Powering Progress, is designed to generate value for our shareholders, customers, and the wider society, and focuses on creating more value with less emissions. The strategy supports our purpose of providing more and cleaner energy solutions, with the aim of profitably transforming Shell into a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. As India moves towards its target of net-zero emissions by 2070, Shell India aims to play a leading role in securing vital energy for today, while investing in, and helping to build, the energy system of the future through strategic investments in the country.

Our Lubricants business serves over 50,000 consumers through a strong network of over 200 distributors, and operates an end-to-end value chain that spans conceptualization, development, and production at a world-class blending plant at Taloja. Through our 350-plus retail stations, we offer an integrated mobility experience including fuels, cafes, and convenience stores, with a prominent network of EV recharging facilities.

Shell owns and operates a LNG re-gasification terminal at Hazira, Surat, with a capacity of 5 MTPA and a LNG truck-loading unit that plays a crucial role in helping meet India’s growing demand for gas across sectors. In 2022, Shell acquired Sprng Energy in a $1.55 billion deal to build an integrated energy transition business in the country. Sprng is a leading renewable energy company in India which develops and manages solar, wind, and hybrid power generation facilities and infrastructure.

Our three capability centres across Bangalore and Chennai serve as a technology and innovation powerhouse for Shell globally, working as a delivery engine for core technical, digital, and finance processes: pioneering digital innovation and cutting-edge technologies across the energy sector. We also have strong academic partnerships and collaborations with leading universities and technology institutes to accelerate decarbonization efforts within the energy sector.

We are committed to positively contributing to the communities in which we operate through programmes on STEM Education, Skilling, and Livelihood across India. We nurture and invest in startups developing initiatives focused on accelerating energy innovation through programs such as Shell E4 and Shell Eco-marathon. We also have strategic investments in new energy companies such as Husk Power, d.light, Orb Energy, and Cleantech Solar.

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