Planning Manager
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About the Role
Currie & Brown is seeking a Planning Manager for a large-scale Data Centre project in Dubai, UAE. The role involves developing target programmes, monitoring progress, and coordinating with stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
- Developing an overall target programme with multiple stakeholder inputs and activities including design, procurement, permitting and approvals, construction, testing, commissioning, handover, across multiple workstreams
- Preparing ‘what if’ scenarios
- Reviewing design consultants’ and contractors’ baseline programmes
- Monitoring and reporting all programme related activities
- Reviewing resource and cost loaded baseline programmes
- Providing assessment of all sequencing and durations of construction activities
- Monitoring the planning and project controlling works for conformance with project procedures
- Reviewing contractors’ lookahead schedules and weekly reports
- Preparing and finalising weekly and monthly progress report submissions to the client
- Liaising and co ordinating with the contractor and the client
- Attending all necessary meetings with the contractor and the client
- Reviewing and analysing contractor’s claims and preparing recommendations reports
Requirements
- BSc in construction management, engineering, architecture, planning, management information system or equivalent
- Strong experience using Primavera (P6) certification and MSP
- Minimum ten years’ technical delivery experience
- Accredited to a relevant professional body such as APM, CIOB or PMP
- Experience working on high rise projects, fit outs, testing and commissioning and tenancy co ordination
- Post contract experience in handover and final accounts
- Middle East experience essential
- Good technical writing, client facing and communication skills
- Well organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well disciplined and commercially astute
- Team player with a ‘can do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible
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Overview
- Currie & Brown is looking to recruit Planning Manager for a large scale Data Centre project in Dubai, UAE.
- The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.
Responsibilities
- Developing an overall target programme with multiple stakeholder inputs and activities including design, procurement, permitting and approvals, construction, testing, commissioning, handover, across multiple workstreams
- Preparing ‘what if’ scenarios
- Reviewing design consultants’ and contractors’ baseline programmes
- Monitoring and reporting all programme related activities
- Reviewing resource and cost loaded baseline programmes
- Providing assessment of all sequencing and durations of construction activities
- Monitoring the planning and project controlling works for conformance with project procedures
- Reviewing contractors’ lookahead schedules and weekly reports
- Preparing and finalising weekly and monthly progress report submissions to the client
- Liaising and co ordinating with the contractor and the client
- Attending all necessary meetings with the contractor and the client
- Reviewing and analysing contractor’s claims and preparing recommendations reports
Requirements
- BSc in construction management, engineering, architecture, planning, management information system or equivalent
- Strong experience using Primavera (P6) certification and MSP
- A minimum of ten years’ technical delivery experience in villas and townhouses projects an advantage
- Accredited to a relevant professional body such as APM, CIOB or PMP
- Experience working on high rise projects, fit outs, testing and commissioning and tenancy co ordination
- Post contract experience in handover and final accounts
- Middle East experience essential
- Good technical writing, client facing and communication skills
- Well organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well disciplined and commercially astute
- A team player with a ‘can do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible
About Currie & Brown
- At Currie & Brown, we take a collaborative, open door approach to running our business.
- We focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments, taking a compassionate and inclusive approach.
- We are an independent company with the backing of our parent company, enabling quick and flexible decisions.
- We work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.
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