About the Role / About the Job
We are looking for an experienced Senior Planning Engineer to join our infrastructure project team in Abu Dhabi. This role involves developing, reviewing, and monitoring the Contractor’s baseline and recovery programmes, as well as overseeing schedules to ensure they meet the project's scope and contractual requirements.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, review, and monitor the Contractor’s baseline programme, recovery programmes, and updated schedules.
- Review the Contractor’s programme for logical linking, resource loading, sequencing, and alignment with project scope and contractual requirements.
- Monitor actual progress against the approved programme; identify delays, critical activities, and potential impacts on project completion.
- Prepare and review weekly and monthly progress reports, highlighting planned vs. actual progress, key achievements, critical activities, and look-ahead programmes.
- Verify reported quantities and progress against actual site status by monitoring the Contractor’s progress.
- Analyse the critical path, float, constraints, and programme logic; provide recommendations to mitigate delays.
- Prepare and review 2-week, 3-week, and 4-week look-ahead programmes as needed.
- 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; 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; 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; 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of 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.
- Preferred experience with EOT, delay analysis, recovery programmes, and time impact analysis.
- UAE infrastructure project experience is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and reporting skills.
- Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary project teams and Contractors.
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
Comprehensive benefits are offered to meet the diverse needs of employees, including:
- Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and disability benefits
- Paid time off and leaves of absence
- Voluntary benefits and perks
- Flexible work options
- Well-being resources and employee assistance program
- Business travel insurance
- Service recognition awards
- Retirement savings plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
Work Location
- On-Site in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Environmental Commitment
Our teams partner with public and private-sector clients to create innovative, sustainable, and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory and planning to design, engineering, and construction management.
