Senior Planning Engineer
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About the Role
AtkinsRéalis seeks a Senior Planning Engineer with 12+ years of experience for large-scale construction projects, including mission-critical data centers. The role involves schedule management, progress monitoring, delay analysis, and reporting.
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Responsibilities
- Review and assess contractors' baseline schedules for compliance with contract requirements, project milestones, and construction sequencing.
- Monitor project progress and performance against approved baseline programmes and recommend corrective actions.
- Prepare and review short term and long term look ahead schedules to support project execution and resource planning.
- Analyze schedule risks, critical paths, constraints, and potential impacts on project delivery.
- Conduct delay analysis and provide support for Extension of Time (EOT) assessments and claims evaluation.
- Review and validate contractor progress reports, recovery plans, and revised schedules.
- Develop project dashboards, KPI reports, earned value metrics, and schedule performance analyses.
- Coordinate with resident engineers, construction managers, contractors, and client representatives to collect and validate progress data.
- Monitor engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning activities to ensure alignment with project schedules.
- Identify schedule deviations and proactively recommend mitigation and acceleration strategies.
- Support project controls, risk management, forecasting, and change management processes.
- Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports with clear executive summaries and schedule analysis.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent
- 12+ years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and controls
- Data Center Experience (at least 1 project delivered in the last 5 years)
- Primavera P6 capability/certification preferred
- Experience with baseline programme review, progress monitoring, look ahead schedules, delay analysis, EOT support, and progress dashboards
Full Job Posting
Overview
- Seeking an experienced Planning Engineer / Senior Planning Engineer with 12+ years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and controls for large scale construction projects, including mission critical data center developments.
Your role
- Review and assess contractors' baseline schedules for compliance with contract requirements, project milestones, and construction sequencing.
- Monitor project progress and performance against approved baseline programmes and recommend corrective actions as required.
- Prepare and review short term and long term look ahead schedules to support project execution and resource planning.
- Analyze schedule risks, critical paths, constraints, and potential impacts on project delivery.
- Conduct delay analysis and provide support for Extension of Time (EOT) assessments and claims evaluation.
- Review and validate contractor progress reports, recovery plans, and revised schedules.
- Develop project dashboards, KPI reports, earned value metrics, and schedule performance analyses.
- Coordinate with resident engineers, construction managers, contractors, and client representatives to collect and validate progress data.
- Monitor engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning activities to ensure alignment with project schedules.
- Identify schedule deviations and proactively recommend mitigation and acceleration strategies.
- Support project controls, risk management, forecasting, and change management processes.
- Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports with clear executive summaries and schedule analysis.
About you
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent. Primavera P6 capability/certification preferred.
- Data Center Experience [at least 1 project is delivered in the last 5 years]
- 12+ years of experience.
- Baseline programme review, progress monitoring, look ahead schedules, delay analysis, EOT support, progress dashboards and reporting; data centre, MEP intensive or fast track project experience preferred.
Rewards & benefits
- Tax free salary.
- Life insurance coverage.
- Medical insurance.
- Annual leave balance.
- Company gratuity scheme.
- Discretionary bonus program.
- Annual flight contribution.
- Transportation & housing allowances.
- Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
About AtkinsRéalis
- We're AtkinsRéalis, a world class engineering services and nuclear organization.
- We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems.
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