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Sougat Patnaik, Senior Project Planning Engineer

Sougat Patnaik

Senior Project Planning Engineer·Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group (ESAG)

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, Project Management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 10 years, 2 months

Senior Project Planning Engineer

April 2026 - Present

Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group (ESAG)

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

April 2026 - Present

Key Initiatives &Positions of Responsibility: -

 Develop detailed project baseline schedules for 33kV & 11kV substation EPC works including engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning.
 Prepare Level 3 / Level 4 schedules using Primavera P6 / MS Project.
 Establish WBS, activity sequencing, logic links, and milestones in line with contract requirements.
 Prepare look-ahead schedules (2-week / 4-week / monthly) for site execution teams.
 Monitor project progress against approved baseline schedules.
 Collect weekly and monthly progress data from site and discipline engineers.
 Analyze schedule variances, identify critical path activities, and propose recovery plans.
 Prepare delay analysis, impact analysis, and mitigation strategies.
 Coordinate with Engineering, Procurement, Construction, QA/QC, and Commissioning teams to align project
activities.
 Track procurement and delivery schedules for major equipment such as transformers, switchgear, protection
panels, RTUs, telecom panels, and cables.
 Prepare and submit weekly and monthly progress reports to management and clients.
 Attend project review meetings and present planning status and forecasts.
 Support project teams in resource planning and manpower forecasting.
 Monitor planned vs actual manpower and equipment deployment.
 Assist Project Manager in identifying potential time-related cost impacts.
 Review contract schedules, milestones, and time-related clauses.
 Maintain proper records for EOT (Extension of Time) and claims substantiation.
 Identify scheduling risks and constraints related to design approvals, material delivery, statutory inspections, and client clearances.
 Ensure planning activities comply with client specifications, project procedures, and EPC best practices.

Company industry:
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Planning Engineer

September 2025 - Present

M/s AGI MILLTEC

Bengaluru, India Hybrid

September 2025 - Present

• Worked as a Planning Engineer in PMO department.
• Prepare the L2, L3 schedule for the all projects by MS Project software.
• Prepare the schedule of all active network project and passive network projects.
• Prepare project plan, work breakdown structure, overall and detailed schedule, progress reports and
presentations during proposal and execution stages under the guidance of Project Controls Manager.
• Prepare the project progress presentation in Power BI Dash board.
• Coordinate with all vendor and client for update the project progress.
• Organize the daily, weekly and monthly progress meeting with all departments and prepare the MoM reports
of different projects.
• Involve in SAP By. Design and update the project progress.
• Monitor critical path & overall schedule on a daily basis by collecting necessary data for the same.
• Develop implement plan versus actual progress chart (s curve). Reports and analyses deviation from plan.
• Analyze gaps between the planned and actual progress and highlight the area of concern which required
action of the associate task member.
• Prepare catch up plans, look ahead plans based on inputs from respective sources and review with the Project
Control Manager.
• Support the Project Controls Manager in the development and delivery of written/verbal presentations to the
companys leadership and customer Coordinate with cost controller to establish congruence between
planning and cost work breakdown structure (WBS).

Project Executed

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Manufacturing

Planning engineer

November 2016 - March 2020

M/s. Maxpro Engineers

Bengaluru, India

November 2016 - March 2020

• Prepare detailed L-2, L-3 schedules using software packages such as Ms Project, rigorously monitor the same
during project implementation. (This includes, master schedule preparation, alignment of functional schedules for
engineering, procurement and construction with the overall schedule, data collection for scheduling, developing
network logic, tracking actual vs. schedule progress, forecasting, trend analysis, resources planning)
• Prepare project plan, work breakdown structure, overall and detailed schedule, progress reports and
presentations during proposal and execution stages under the guidance of Project Controls Manager.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly progress reports of different project.
• Monitor critical path & overall schedule on a daily basis by collecting necessary data for the same.
• Develop implement plan versus actual progress chart (s curve). Reports and analyses deviation from plan.
• Analyze gaps between the planned and actual progress and highlight the area of concern which required action of
the associate task member.
• Prepare catch up plans, look ahead plans based on inputs from respective sources and review with the Project
Control Manager.
• Support the Project Controls Manager in the development and delivery of written/verbal presentations to the
companys leadership and customer Coordinate with cost controller to establish congruence between planning
and cost work breakdown structure(WBS).
• Track, monitor and forecast progress of all activities and deliverable such as product engineering documents,
erection status and construction of all discipline.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Detail planning and execution of projects.
• Deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements, documentation and presentations.
• Preparing Minutes of meeting. And presentation during internal meeting and client meeting.
• Having knowledge of time sheet management and generate reports and prepare pivot table.
• Review of construction schedule, drawings and progress billing.
• Motivate and supervise project team members and contractors and influence them to take positive action and
accountability for their assigned work.
• Managing the supervision work of the project with existing resources.
• Understand work scope, quantity and familiar with logical sequence in terms of engineering, manufacturing and
construction discipline.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas

Planning engineer

January 2012 - October 2014

M/s G.R Engineering Pvt.Ltd.

Hyderabad, India

January 2012 - October 2014

• Preparing Bill of Quantity (BOQ) of different building and Bill of Material (BOM) as per the drawing of
petrochemical project.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Coordination between different departments.
• Detail planning and execution of projects.
• Deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements, documentation and presentations.
• Manpower and tool & tackles mobilization.
• Motivate and supervise project team members and contractors and influence them to take positive action and
accountability for their assigned work.
• Technical assistance during modification of projects.
• Execute structural drawing for fabrication, erection, modification, alignment and commissioning as per the
operational point of view.
• Project plans and associated communications documents.
• Billing for fabrication & Erection of structure, pressure vessel like reactor, product purge bin etc.
• Preparing Daily progress report, weakly progress report, and Monthly progress report.
• Drawing study of different parts of Reactor, Product Purge Bin of LLDP/HDPE.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas

Projects Planning Engineer

January 2011 - January 2012

GAIL INDIA LTD.

Hyderabad, India

January 2011 - January 2012

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Information Technology

Asst. Engineer (Project & Design)

January 2008 - January 2010

M/s EICS Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Hyderabad, India

January 2008 - January 2010

• Calculating the bill of quantity (BOQ) OR bills of material in DRI plant and power plant.
• Hands on experience in structural drawing check & equipment drawing check.
• Adept at handling various quality-related tools/techniques with proficiency in quality supervision and
implementation in compliance to the defined standards of ISO
• Responsible for design of Structural steel design, Foundation design, concrete design etc.
• Document control and filing.
• Fabrication, erection and designing of high temperature pressure vessel, conveyors and equipment etc.
• Preparing and transferring documents of design and executing across a portfolio of projects harmonizing technical
needs with business realities.

Company industry:
Construction & Building

Education

ICFAI university

January 2021

January 2021

Master's degree, Project Management

India

MBA in Project Management

J.I.T.M. Paralakhemundi (Berhampur Univercity)

January 2006

January 2006

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical engineering

India

GPA (percentage): 90%

GPA (percentage): 90%

Govt. High School

January 2006

January 2006

High school or equivalent, Mehanical

India

Skills

CUSTOMER SERVICE
Intermediate
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Intermediate
INNOVATION
Intermediate
INNOVATION
Intermediate
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MBA
Intermediate
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MBA
Intermediate
COMPUTER LITERACY
Intermediate
COMPUTER LITERACY
Intermediate
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Intermediate
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Intermediate
MICROSOFT PROJECT
Intermediate
MICROSOFT PROJECT
Intermediate
PRIMAVERA SOFTWARE
Intermediate
PRIMAVERA SOFTWARE
Intermediate
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE PMI METHODOLOGY
Intermediate
PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE PMI METHODOLOGY
Intermediate
TEXT PROCESSING
Intermediate
TEXT PROCESSING
Intermediate

Social profiles

Languages

English

Expert

Hindi

Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
PMP
Project Management Professional
Sep 2023
PMP

Hobbies and interests

Yoga, Listening Music