Senior Planning Engineer

About the Role

The company is seeking a talented Senior Planning Engineer to join our team in Qatar. In this role, you will lead planning, scheduling, and progress monitoring activities for roads, drainage, utilities, and associated infrastructure works. You will play a critical role in supporting the project team to ensure effective planning, performance monitoring, schedule control, and timely delivery of project objectives, adhering to contract requirements and client expectations.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading planning and scheduling activities for projects, ensuring alignment with objectives, milestones, and contractual requirements.
• Reviewing and monitoring contractors' baseline programmes, recovery programmes, revised schedules, and look-ahead plans.
• Evaluating project progress and performance against approved schedules, identifying potential delays and risks.
• Analyzing critical path activities, project constraints, schedule impacts, and recommending appropriate mitigation measures.
• Monitoring the progress of roads, drainage, utilities, structures, and associated infrastructure works.
• Supporting project controls activities through schedule reviews, progress assessments, and performance reporting.
• Preparing and reviewing project dashboards, progress reports, presentations, and planning reports for project management and client review.
• Coordinating with Resident Engineers, Site Engineers, contractors, and other project stakeholders to obtain and validate progress information.
• Reviewing contractors' resource loading, sequencing, productivity rates, and work plans to support efficient project execution.
• Identifying planning and scheduling risks and supporting the development of corrective and preventive measures.
• Assisting in the assessment of delays, extension of time submissions, and schedule-related contractual matters.
• Supporting project management in forecasting project completion dates and evaluating project performance trends.
• Participating in progress meetings, providing planning and scheduling updates to project management and the client.
• Supporting project close-out activities through schedule validation, progress verification, and final reporting requirements.
• Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives related to planning, reporting, and project controls processes.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from an accredited university.
• 14 years of experience in planning, scheduling, and project controls for construction and infrastructure projects, including 7 years in a similar role.
• Experience in planning and scheduling major roads, drainage, utilities, and infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, earned value principles, and project controls practices.
• Strong understanding of critical path method (CPM) scheduling techniques and schedule impact analysis.
• Experience evaluating project performance, identifying delays, and recommending mitigation and recovery measures.
• Familiarity with delay analysis, extension of time assessments, and schedule-related contractual requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills with the ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary project teams.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 scheduling software.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Must be MMUP/MME certified in Qatar.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Professional certifications such as PMP, PSP, AACE, or equivalent project controls credentials.
• Experience delivering major roads, highways, drainage, utilities, and infrastructure projects in Qatar or the GCC region.
• Familiarity with Qatar Construction Specifications (QCS) and local authority requirements.
• Experience working on large-scale infrastructure construction supervision projects.
• Working knowledge of FIDIC contracts and contract administration procedures.
• Experience supporting delay analysis, claims review, and extension of time evaluations.
• Experience coordinating with clients, contractors, government authorities, and project stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in improving project performance and achieving key project milestones.
• Experience utilizing advanced reporting, dashboard, and project controls tools to support project performance monitoring and decision-making.

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