Senior Planning Engineer
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About the Role
A leading main contracting company in the UAE seeks a Senior Planning Engineer for large-scale building projects including high-rise towers, residential developments, and mixed-use projects.
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Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and monitor comprehensive project baseline programmes using Primavera P6
- Prepare detailed construction schedules covering engineering, procurement, authority approvals, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover
- Establish project milestones, critical paths, resource requirements, and productivity targets
- Regularly update schedules based on actual site progress and highlight deviations
- Track daily, weekly, and monthly progress against approved programmes
- Prepare project progress reports, dashboards, look ahead schedules, and management presentations
- Monitor manpower, equipment, material availability, and productivity trends
- Identify potential delays, bottlenecks, and risks impacting project timelines
- Recommend corrective actions and recovery plans to ensure project targets are achieved
- Conduct delay analysis and evaluate schedule impacts due to design changes, variations, authority approvals
- Support preparation of Extension of Time (EOT) claims and contractual correspondence
- Work closely with Project Managers, Construction Managers, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, QA/QC, HSE teams, consultants, and subcontractors
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering
- Minimum 10–15 years of experience in construction planning
- Strong experience working with reputed Main Contractors
- Proven experience in building projects such as high rise towers, villa communities, residential developments, mixed use projects
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6
- UAE/GCC project experience preferred
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Position Overview
- Our client, a leading Main Contracting company in the UAE, is seeking an experienced Senior Planning Engineer to support the successful delivery of large scale building projects including high rise towers, residential developments, villa communities, and mixed use projects.
- The role requires a technically strong planning professional with hands on experience in project scheduling, progress monitoring, delay analysis, reporting, and coordination with project teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and monitor comprehensive project baseline programmes using Primavera P6.
- Prepare detailed construction schedules covering engineering, procurement, authority approvals, construction activities, testing, commissioning, and handover.
- Establish project milestones, critical paths, resource requirements, and productivity targets.
- Regularly update schedules based on actual site progress and highlight deviations from planned progress.
- Track daily, weekly, and monthly progress against approved programmes.
- Prepare project progress reports, dashboards, look ahead schedules, and management presentations.
- Monitor manpower, equipment, material availability, and productivity trends.
- Identify potential delays, bottlenecks, and risks impacting project timelines.
- Recommend corrective actions and recovery plans to ensure project targets are achieved.
- Conduct delay analysis and evaluate schedule impacts due to design changes, variations, authority approvals, and other project constraints.
- Support preparation of Extension of Time (EOT) claims and contractual correspondence.
- Maintain accurate project records, progress data, and supporting documentation.
Candidate Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering is mandatory.
- Minimum 10–15 years of experience in construction planning.
- Strong experience working with reputed Main Contractors.
- Proven experience in building projects such as high rise residential/commercial towers, villa communities, residential developments, mixed use projects.
- UAE/GCC project experience preferred.
- Experience managing complete project lifecycle from mobilisation to handover.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, MS Project, MS Excel & project reporting tools.
- Strong understanding of construction sequencing, Critical Path Method (CPM), resource & cost loading, delay analysis techniques, EOT preparation & claims support.
- Knowledge of UAE construction practices, authority approvals, and consultant requirements.
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