About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Planning Engineer to support our infrastructure and marine works projects in Abu Dhabi. This role involves developing, reviewing, and monitoring project programmes, ensuring that all activities and project interfaces are accurately reflected, as well as identifying risks and providing recommendations for recovery.
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Responsibilities:
- Develop, review, and monitor baseline, detailed, recovery, and updated project programmes for infrastructure and marine works.
- Review Contractor programmes and ensure activities, logic, durations, resources, and project interfaces are properly reflected.
- Monitor planned versus actual progress and identify delays, critical activities, and programme risks.
- Prepare and review weekly, monthly, and look-ahead programmes and progress reports.
- Analyse the critical path and provide recommendations for mitigation and recovery measures.
- Review Contractor progress updates and verify reported progress against actual site activities.
- Coordinate with engineering, construction, commercial, and site teams to ensure accurate progress reporting.
- Monitor infrastructure activities including roads, utilities, earthworks, structures, and associated works.
- Monitor marine activities including reclamation, dredging, rock placement, marine edge protection, revetments, and marine structures.
- Monitor key milestones, design submissions, approvals, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
- Review delay events, Extension of Time (EOT) submissions, delay analysis, and Time Impact Analysis where required.
- Attend progress and coordination meetings and provide planning updates.
- Support the Project Manager in identifying programme risks and developing mitigation and recovery measures.
- Review Contractor resource requirements and productivity against the approved programme.
- Maintain accurate planning records and ensure programme updates are supported by reliable site information.
Qualifications
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 marine works.
- Strong experience with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
- Good knowledge of construction planning, scheduling, progress measurement, critical path analysis, and delay analysis.
- Experience in reviewing EOT submissions, delay analysis, and Time Impact Analysis.
- Good understanding of infrastructure and marine construction activities, sequencing, and project interfaces.
- UAE experience on major infrastructure and marine projects is preferred.
- Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and reporting skills.
Additional Information
All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an the company office location as a condition of employment.
Benefits
the company is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, benefits may include:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life, AD&D, and disability benefits
- Paid time off and leaves of absence
- Voluntary benefits
- Flexible work options
- Well-being resources and employee assistance program
- Business travel insurance
- Service recognition awards
- Retirement savings plan and employee stock purchase plan
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