About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced PMC Specialist Engineer (Planning) with a proven track record in developing, monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing project schedules to ensure the successful execution and delivery of projects within approved timelines. The role provides planning expertise, schedule control, progress measurement, forecasting, and risk assessment support to project management, ensuring alignment with project objectives and contractual requirements for a high-profile client.
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Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Across EMEA, teams are providing solutions and expertise to support a growing client base, focused on combining maintenance and operations with asset management, modifications, and engineering services across the energy and materials markets. The focus is on growth with a strategy centered around building partnerships with clients across the UK, Norway, and the Middle East and Africa.
What We Can Offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects: Delivered to high-profile clients across the Energy Sector
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: An organization actively committed to diversity and inclusion across the business
- Competitive remuneration package: Regular reviews to ensure rewarding at the right level in line with the market
- Medical Insurance: Ensures availability of inpatient and outpatient medical care if treatment is required
- Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance: Provides Life Assurance cover
- End of Service Gratuity: In line with UAE Labor Law, all employees are eligible for an End of Service benefit
- Employee Share Plan: Opportunity to purchase shares with a company match
- Long Service Award: Recognition for commitment and loyalty at 5-year service milestones
- Commitment to continued professional development: Tailored development plans according to individual needs and interests
- Global connections: Join experts worldwide who are shaping the standards of the profession
- Energy Transition Academy: Community of experts sharing knowledge on existing and emerging energy systems, delivered by field experts
Key Objective for the Role
The PMC Specialist Engineer (Planning) is responsible for developing, monitoring, and controlling project schedules to ensure the successful execution and delivery of projects within approved timelines, budgets, and quality requirements. This role provides planning expertise, schedule analysis, progress monitoring, and strategic recommendations to support project management decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Develop, monitor, and maintain the overall project schedule to ensure alignment with project objectives and milestones.
- Review and validate EPC contractor schedules, resource plans, progress measurements, and recovery plans.
- Prepare and update project master schedules, detailed engineering schedules, procurement schedules, construction schedules, and commissioning schedules.
- Monitor project progress and identify schedule deviations, delays, and potential risks.
- Perform critical path analysis and recommend corrective actions to maintain project timelines.
- Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project control teams to ensure schedule integration.
- Develop project progress measurement systems and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, dashboards, S-curves, and management presentations.
- Analyze project performance against planned progress and provide forecasts for project completion.
- Support the development of project execution plans, work breakdown structures (WBS), and planning procedures.
- Conduct schedule risk assessments and develop mitigation and recovery strategies.
- Review and assess contractors' claims related to schedule impacts, delays, and extensions of time (EOT).
- Monitor manpower utilization, productivity trends, and resource loading requirements.
- Assist in budget monitoring and cost control activities by providing schedule-related inputs.
Qualifications
Skills and Qualifications
What Makes You Remarkable?
Commitment to equal opportunities and welcoming all talented individuals. Even if you don't match every statement below, but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, you are encouraged to apply. It takes all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Expected:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Master's Degree in Project Management, Engineering Management, or Business Administration (MBA) is advantageous.
- Professional certifications such as PMP, AACE, PRINCE2, or equivalent are preferred.
- Minimum 15+ years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and project controls within Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, LNG, Refinery, Infrastructure, Energy, or Industrial projects.
- Proven experience in PMC, EPC, Owner's Engineer, or major capital project environments.
- Experience across all project phases including FEED, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up.
- Demonstrated experience in managing complex project schedules for large-scale greenfield and brownfield projects.
