We are looking for an experienced Planning Engineer to join our infrastructure project team in Abu Dhabi.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, review, and monitor the Contractor’s baseline programme, recovery programmes, and updated schedules.
- Review the Contractor’s programme to ensure it is logic-linked, resource-loaded, properly sequenced, and aligned with the project scope and contractual requirements.
- Monitor actual progress against the approved programme and identify delays, critical activities, and potential impacts on project completion.
- Prepare and review weekly and monthly progress reports, including planned vs. actual progress, key achievements, critical activities, and look-ahead programmes.
- Monitor the Contractor’s progress and verify reported quantities and progress against actual site status.
- Review and analyse the critical path, float, constraints, and programme logic and provide recommendations to mitigate delays.
- Prepare and review 2-week, 3-week, and 4-week look-ahead programmes as required.
- Coordinate with the Resident Engineer, discipline engineers, inspectors, and Contractor’s planning team to obtain accurate progress information.
- Review Contractor’s recovery and mitigation programmes and assess their effectiveness in addressing delays.
- Monitor design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and authority approval activities and their interfaces.
- Identify programme risks, constraints, and potential delays and highlight them to the project management team.
- Assist in reviewing Extension of Time (EOT) submissions, delay events, and time-related claims, including programme impact and supporting analysis.
- Review and assess programme updates and time impact analyses submitted by the Contractor.
- Maintain and update project progress dashboards and key performance indicators.
- Prepare progress presentations and provide clear planning and schedule updates to the project management team and Client.
- Participate in progress, planning, and coordination meetings with the Contractor and project stakeholders.
- Ensure planning and reporting activities comply with project procedures, contractual requirements, and reporting standards.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Relevant experience in planning and scheduling for infrastructure and construction projects.
- Strong knowledge of Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
- Good understanding of baseline programmes, schedule updates, critical path analysis, resource loading, progress measurement, and delay analysis.
- Experience in reviewing Contractor programmes and progress reports.
- Experience with EOT, delay analysis, recovery programmes, and time impact analysis is preferred.
- UAE infrastructure project experience is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and reporting skills.
- Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary project teams and Contractors.