Planning Engineer (Airport Projects)
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Role Overview
Seeking an experienced Planning Engineer to support planning, scheduling, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of airport construction and fit-out projects.
The role works with the Project Manager, contractors, consultants, suppliers, and internal teams to plan activities, monitor progress, identify delays, and follow up on corrective actions.
Airport, aviation, commercial, or complex infrastructure project experience is preferred.
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Company Description
AECOM describes itself as a global infrastructure consulting firm delivering planning, design, engineering, program, and construction management services.
The company states that its teams work on infrastructure projects across transportation, buildings, water, environment, and energy.
Job Summary
Seeking an experienced Planning Engineer to support planning, scheduling, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of airport construction and fit-out projects.
The role works with the Project Manager, contractors, consultants, suppliers, and internal teams to plan activities, monitor progress, identify delays, and follow up on corrective actions.
Airport, aviation, commercial, or complex infrastructure project experience is preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Project Manager in planning, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of airport projects.
- Prepare, update, and maintain project schedules, baseline programmes, lookahead programmes, and progress trackers.
- Monitor planned versus actual progress and identify delays, critical activities, and schedule risks.
- Coordinate with contractors, consultants, suppliers, and internal teams to collect progress updates.
- Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, dashboards, presentations, and executive summaries.
- Prepare minutes of meetings and action trackers and follow up with responsible stakeholders.
- Monitor critical path, milestones, project deliverables, and key interfaces.
- Assist in preparing recovery programmes and mitigation plans for delayed activities.
- Coordinate with Document Control to track documents, submissions, and approvals.
- Support project meetings through agenda preparation, presentations, and action follow-up.
- Provide regular schedule and progress updates to the Project Manager and management team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Seven to ten years of experience in project planning and scheduling within construction, infrastructure, or airport projects.
- Hands-on experience with Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project.
- Good knowledge of project scheduling, progress monitoring, critical path analysis, and schedule updates.
- Experience preparing progress reports, dashboards, lookahead programmes, and management presentations.
- Experience coordinating with contractors, consultants, suppliers, and multidisciplinary project teams.
- Strong proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint for reporting and data analysis.
- Airport or major infrastructure project experience is preferred.
- Strong communication, coordination, analytical, and follow-up skills.
Recruitment Process
- Newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
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