Planning Engineer

About the Role
The Planning Engineer is responsible for implementing and monitoring engineering design stage planning processes. This role involves reviewing and overseeing consultant design plans and authority approvals to ensure alignment between construction and design plans. The Planning Engineer ensures the efficient delivery of design engineering to maintain the progress of construction plans without delay and oversees the procurement process to ensure timely delivery of materials to the site as per construction requirements. This position requires coordination between construction needs and consultants to ensure all required elements for construction are delivered on time.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide project planning/scheduling support and manage a small team of planners.
• Manage the project schedules in accordance with the project work breakdown structure, ensuring that project schedules are developed correctly.
• Regularly update project plans to maintain levels of certainty that allow for effective monitoring, forecasting, and control.
• Produce scheduling for pre-design, design, tender and award, procurement, construction, and completion phases to meet project and contractual requirements in compliance with planning procedures.
• Analyze project requirements and prepare resource and cost-loaded planning schedules.
• Produce resource histograms for manpower, materials, and submittals.
• Evaluate and analyze project progress through updated status reports based on the contract schedule to provide performance assessment and accurate forecasts.
• Coordinate and liaise with project managers to update the detailed work programs.
• Work with subcontractors and authorities regarding planning and programming matters related to the various interfaces on the project.
• Consult with the Project Director/Manager on different scenarios to be simulated in the scheduling.
• Review and evaluate subcontractors' schedules and reports, recommending necessary actions to align subcontractor timelines with the contract schedule.
• Prepare the progress monitoring section of the monthly report, including schedule updates for incorporation into the monthly progress report for clients and management.
• Participate in progress and coordination meetings to discuss project status.
• Support the implementation of HSE initiatives, participate in safety awareness activities, and contribute to incident reporting and resolution following company and IMS policies.

Job Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of engineering fundamentals.
• Understanding of principles of planning and practices of research and data collection.
• Familiarity with planning practices and software such as Advance Primavera 6.
• Knowledge of local and international construction standards.
• ERP knowledge, preferably with SAP functional skills.

Job Experience

• Minimum of 8 years of working experience, with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• 2 years of experience in the GCC is a plus.

Competencies

• AI Fluency
• Quality
• Leadership
• Cash Flow Analysis (Level 3)
• Project Resource Management (Level 3)
• Project Tracking and Reporting (Level 3)
• Revenue Forecasting (Level 3)
• Agility
• Primavera Project Planner (Level 3)
• Boldness

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related field.