Vijayaraj Thiagarajan

• Serving as the Planning Manager within the Project Management Consultancy (PMC) team representing RCRC
• Leading all project planning, scheduling, and progress control functions, ensuring alignment with RCRCs strategic objectives and
project delivery timelines.
• Developing, maintaining, and updating the master project schedule using Primavera P6, incorporating contractor programs, and
tracking progress against key milestones.
• Providing oversight and guidance to the contractors planning and project control activities, ensuring adherence to project
requirements and reporting protocols.
• Conducting critical path analysis, earned value management (EVM), and time impact assessments to evaluate project
performance and support decision-making.
• Preparing and presenting comprehensive weekly/monthly reports, dashboards, and schedule forecasts to RCRC
• Reviewing contractors claims, delay analysis, and Extension of Time (EOT) submissions, providing recommendations based on
forensic planning techniques.
• Coordinating with multidisciplinary teams including design, construction, and procurement to resolve scheduling conflicts and
maintain project continuity.
• Supporting risk assessment and mitigation planning, as well as contributing to value engineering and cost-saving initiatives.

• Project Value: US $ 200 Billion
• Project Details: SPINE - Metro Rail Construction, NEOM, Saudi Arabia
170 KM Length of Metro Rail Project, Utility Construction, Underground Station Construction, Underground Tunnel Construction, Road Construction
• Job Responsibilities:
o Review and provide consent to the Engineer/Contractors’ Baseline schedule of works in adherence to Contract conditions and Parsons Recommended Practices.
o Validate the compatibility of allocated resources to ensure timely project completion.
o Develop a comprehensive Master plan amalgamating multiple packages to identify and address interdependencies, reflecting the impact of one project on others.
o Demonstrate strong foresee ability to identify potential risks/conflicts and document them in the Project Risk Register.
o Evaluate and verify planning and scheduling information from updated/progress schedules, identifying potential areas of delay/slippage, critical events, and proposing mitigation measures/recovery plans.
o Conduct What if analysis to assess time impacts of changes, variations, and potential events early on, providing alternative courses of action as a subject matter expert.
o Prepare regular progress reports and monthly analyses, addressing program issues to ensure timely project completion, and presenting progress concerning interim and major milestones.
o Perform detailed assessment of complex claims including Extension of Time, Disruption, utilizing leading forensic delay analysis methodologies to demonstrate cause & effect of events and identify contractor’s concurrent delay.
o Facilitate discussions, coordination, and resolution of planning and scheduling issues with contractors and employers.
o Coordinate with the Client to finalize contractor’s programs, reports, and claims.
o Attend various meetings and provide valuable inputs, preparing concise minutes of meetings.
o Prepare Trackers/Logs to monitor critical issues during Design and Construction stages.
o Establish the Project Measurement System (PMS) and key indicators for monitoring purposes.
o Communicate effectively through presentations to management and interface with diverse professionals, providing reasoned and analytic responses to contractor notices and detailed particulars.
o Maintain proper record-keeping of project contemporary records.
o Issue delay notices for contractor’s culpable delay and/or slow performance, recording areas where contractor’s performance is behind schedule.
o Manage a team of planning engineers from consultants and contractors, providing technical and leadership skills.

Job Description / Role as a Senior Planning Engineer:
1) Baseline Schedule and Revised Baseline Schedule with the software Primavera 6.8.3
2) Develop WBS, Activities and Sequences based on the approved drawing and Specification.
3) Calculate the Resources and Resources loading in Primavera Schedule.
4) Extension of time clime (EOT) and Time Impact analysis (TIA) in Primavera 6.8.3
5) Weekly and Monthly Schedule update as per the Site Progress in Primavera 6.8.3
6) 5 Weeks and 3 Month Look Ahead Schedule Report for Clint
7) Critical Path Analyses (CPA) with Contractual Milestones
8) Monthly Variance Analyses (MVA) with Contractual Milestones
9) Monthly Progress Report, Maintain productivity and efficiency figures (SPI),
10) Implemented plan versus actual progress charts (histograms /s curves), earn value curve, DPR
11) Monitoring the Concrete Progress Quantity and reporting to Site Manager
12) Monitored resource requirements based on budgetary parameters, tracked and controlled cost accruals with respect to budgets
13) Followed up with all team members to communicate required completion dates and interface between functional team and project team
14) Attended all the Planning related meeting (schedule review meeting, progress meeting, coordination meeting, review meeting and so on)

1) Developing WBS, Activities with Baseline Program, Construction implementation Program and Recovery Program in Primavera P6.8.3
2) Schedule Milestones and Tracking Milestones in Primavera 6.8.3
3) Resource loading, Cost loading, Progress “S” curve, Earn value curve and Manpower Histogram, Key Performance Indicator Evaluation (KPI)
4) Monitoring Critical path, Schedule impact program and reports for Change Notices, Extension of time clime (EOT)/ Delay analysis.
5) Updating Monthly Progress, Resource Analysis and Leveling with Primavera
6) 3 Weeks and 3 Months month look ahead schedule preparation.
7) Prepare, monitor, track and maintain project master/key dates/detailed schedule
8) Responsible for day to day interaction with client, consultants, subcontracts regarding the progress of the works and Coordinate with procurement department.
9) Keeping close watch on various activities of Project and Reporting to the Project Manager on any Risk foreseen for project completion and providing suggestions.
10) Monthly Progress Report and Weekly Progress Report for Clint and Site Management .

Hyder Consulting
•Project Value..........: US$ 250 million
•Project…………….......: North Manama Causeway- Road access to Bahrain Financial harbor and Bahrain Bay Development. (Bridge Construction)- Ministry of Works - Kingdom of Bahrain
•Project Description:
•This Bridge construction of an elevated 1.42 km long segmental flyover providing three to four lanes of dual carriageway.
•The re-construction of 1.60 km of roads along Al Fateh highway, Shaikh Hamad Causeway, and King Faisal Highway.
•Construction of new 2.42 km of roads along Al Fateh Highway and the eastern and northern sides of the Bahrain Bay
•Construction of a new signalized traffic junction for entry / exit into the Manama Lagoon area halfway between the two junctions of Al Fateh / King Faisal Highway and AL Fateh / Shaikh Hamad Causeway.
•Bridge Deck Slab by using Precast Segments- 2, 438 No’s up to 125 Tons,
• Launching Girder for Precast Segments Erection, Post tensioning strands- 2, 700 Tons
• Bored piles-1100 No’s of average 25m long,
• Reinforcement Steel - 31, 000 Tons, Concrete Quantities - 144, 000 m
•Construction of 2 bridges cast in situ with post- tensioned (51.5m long & 8 Spans 237m long)

Metro Rail Construction Project, Land Transport Authority, Singapore
Contract Valve: S$582 million contract
Metro Rail Project (Underground MRT station Construction)The C903 contract for the construction of DTL1 Bugis Station and its associated tunnels up to the contract boundaries with Contract 902 (Promenade Station and associated tunnels) and Downtown Line Stage 2 for the Land Transport Authority. It is part of the Stage 1 of a 3.4 kilometer underground line of the Downtown Extension of the Circle Line
Utility Diversion work for Water, HV& LV Electrical line, sewage line
Road Diversion, Reconstruction of the new Road construction work
•2. Project Detail : Punggol Waterway Project part-1 & part 2, Singapore public housing development projects.
Contract Valve: S$ 149 Million + S$ 58.9 Million
As part of the Punggol Waterway project, the contract entails the construction of a 2.4-km R.C. waterway and its related engineering works Like Vehicular Road Bridge Construction, Deep Soil Mixing, Jet Grout Pile, Diaphram Wall Retaining Structure. At an average depth of about 4m and width which varies from 10m to 85m, the waterway will be connected to Sungei Punggol. In addition, a 10m wide promenade will also be built on both banks of the waterway

•Other Projects for Tender Program in PRIMAVERA Software: (Singapore)
•3. Project Detail : Tender Program Preparation works for Contract ER295, Construction and Completion of SENTOSA GATWAY TUNNEL ALONG SENTOSA GATWAY (a). Handover of Contract ER295/ER296 Interface work Area from Contract ER295 TO Contract ER 296 = 32 Calendar Months ( b) Tunnel Basic Structure Completion = 48 Calendar Months (C) Whole of the Works = 58 Calendar Months
•4. Project Detail: Tender Program Preparation works ForPUNGGOL WALK, SUMANG LINK AND VEHICULAR BRIDG a) Project Start date 1st Nov-2009 & Project Finish Date 30-Sep-2010 with Tender Program
• 5. Project Detail: Tender Program for Improvement to Geylang River from Dunman Road to Guillemard Road
•6. Project Detail: Tender Program Preparation works for CONTRACT 932, Award of Contract Date: 01/01/2011, Completion of Whole of the Works 30/12/2016 (Project Name: Construction and Completion of Mettar Station and Associated Tunnels) Construct Mattar Station includes structural, architectural, plumbing, drainage & reinstatement works for underground station and related station entrances, pedestrian linkways, bicycle parks, bus shelters, taxi bays, ventilation shaft, Cut and cover tunnel, TBM launching shaft, Twin Bored Tunnel, Ground Treatment for all interfacing works, tunnel breakthrough locations, cross passage, escape shaft & ground improvement along the tunnel route, Temporary Earth Retaining Stabilizing Structures (ERSS), Staged traffic diversions

Project Description:
EPC project is being executed by the consortium of petrofac international Ltd and Galfar. The project involves engineering, procurement and construction of the facilities for processing 20 million standard cubic meter of gas per day and operating the plant for an initial period of one year.
Job Description.....:
Study and Review of Drawing, Calculating Labour and Material, Planning and Scheduling, Assigning work to Labor, Preparation of Bar bending Schedule, Monitoring the Progress and preparation of Daily and weekly progress Report.

Study and Review of Drawing, Calculating Labor and Material, Planning and Scheduling, Assigning work to Labor, Preparation of Bar bending Schedule, Monitoring the Progress and preparation of Daily and weekly progress Report, Preparation of weekly and Monthly bill.