About the Role
We are looking for a Planning Engineer – Infrastructure & Bridges to join our project team. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, monitoring, and reporting the progress of infrastructure and bridge works, ensuring that project activities are properly sequenced and progress is aligned with the approved programme.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare, review, and update baseline, detailed, recovery, and short-term programmes.
- Review Contractor programmes, logic, activity durations, resources, relationships, and construction sequences.
- Monitor planned versus actual progress and identify delays, critical activities, and areas requiring recovery.
- Develop and monitor lookahead programmes and weekly/monthly progress updates.
- Coordinate with construction, engineering, QA/QC, and site teams to verify actual progress.
- Monitor progress of bridge works including piling, foundations, piers, abutments, retaining walls, decks, concrete works, and associated structures.
- Monitor infrastructure works including earthworks, roads, drainage, wet utilities, dry utilities, and associated works.
- Review construction sequencing and interfaces between bridges, roads, utilities, and other infrastructure activities.
- Monitor key project milestones, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
- Prepare progress reports, dashboards, S-curves, and other planning and project control reports.
- Identify programme risks, delays, and potential impacts and support the development of recovery measures.
- Assist with Extension of Time (EOT), delay analysis, and Time Impact Analysis (TIA) submissions.
- Attend progress and coordination meetings and provide updates on programme performance and key issues.
- Monitor Contractor manpower, resources, productivity, and progress against the approved programme.
- Maintain accurate planning records and support project closeout activities.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Relevant experience in planning and project controls for major infrastructure and bridge projects.
- Strong knowledge of construction planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, critical path analysis, and project controls.
- Experience with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
- Good understanding of construction sequencing, resource planning, lookahead programmes, and recovery programmes.
- Experience with EOT, delay analysis, and Time Impact Analysis.
- UAE experience on major infrastructure projects is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life, AD&D, and disability benefits.
- Paid time off and leaves of absence.
- Flexible work options and well-being resources.
- Employee assistance program and business travel insurance.
- Service recognition awards and retirement savings plan.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
Contract and Travel Details
- This position is based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and requires on-site work.
- All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an office location as a condition of employment.
