Work Preparation & Planning Manager (Tender & Execution)
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**Tasks** * Lead the development of tender and execution programmes for building construction projects across multiple bids and live projects * Establish and maintain project planning frameworks, including WBS structures, sequencing strategies, and programme methodologies * Oversee preparation of baseline schedules, ensuring alignment with project scope, construction methodology, and resource strategy * Manage the transition from tender planning to execution planning, ensurin
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Tasks
- Lead the development of tender and execution programmes for building construction projects across multiple bids and live projects
- Establish and maintain project planning frameworks, including WBS structures, sequencing strategies, and programme methodologies
- Oversee preparation of baseline schedules, ensuring alignment with project scope, construction methodology, and resource strategy
- Manage the transition from tender planning to execution planning, ensuring continuity, accuracy, and constructability
- Review and validate construction methodologies, temporary works strategies, and phasing plans during pre-construction
- Develop and monitor resource-loaded programmes, including manpower histograms, cash flow projections, and S-curves
- Provide oversight on programme updates, progress tracking, and reporting across active projects
- Analyse programme risks, identify critical path constraints, and implement mitigation and recovery strategies
- Coordinate with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to ensure programme alignment with actual site execution
- Support commercial and tender teams with time-related inputs, including programme narratives and sequencing strategies
- Standardise planning practices, including coding structures, naming conventions, and reporting formats
- Provide guidance and oversight to planning engineers across projects, ensuring consistency and quality of outputs
- Act as a central point of control for planning, scheduling, and programme governance across the organisation
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering (4-year programme)
- 12–18 years of experience in planning and project controls within a main contracting environment
- Proven experience managing both tender-stage planning and project execution programmes
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, with working knowledge of MS Project and MS Office
- Demonstrated ability to develop WBS structures, resource-loaded schedules, and detailed construction programmes
- Experience in preparing and managing cash flows, manpower histograms, and S-curve reporting
- Proven experience with construction methodologies, sequencing, and temporary works planning
- Experience overseeing multiple projects or bids simultaneously from a centralised planning function
- Ability to interpret technical drawings and align planning outputs with engineering and site requirements
- Familiarity with UAE construction practices and project delivery environments
- Strong analytical capability in programme risk assessment and recovery planning
- Clear communication and coordination across technical, commercial, and operational teams
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, deadline-driven tendering and execution environment
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