Planning Engineer

About this role

Prepare, review, and monitor project schedules for construction and development projects; track actual progress against the approved baseline; identify delays and schedule risks at an early stage; and prepare progress reports and dashboards that support decision-making, ensuring projects are delivered within the planned timeline and in line with contract requirements.

What you will do

Schedule Development & Review

- Develop, review, and update detailed project programmers and schedules.

- Review contractors' baseline programmers, revised programmers, recovery programmers, and periodic updates.

- Review project milestones, critical activities, logical dependencies, and overall project durations.

- Perform Critical Path Method (CPM) analysis and identify activities affecting the project completion date.

- Review contractors' look-ahead programmers (2-week, 4-week, and similar).

Progress Monitoring

- Monitor actual progress and compare it against the approved baseline schedule.

- Review contractors' weekly and monthly progress updates and verify reported progress.

- Monitor design, procurement, authority approvals, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities against the programmed.

- Conduct site visits to verify actual progress against reported progress.

Reporting & Dashboards

- Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports, dashboards, and management presentations.

- Prepare and maintain S-curves, progress charts, manpower histograms, and look-ahead schedules.

- Maintain accurate planning records and historical project progress data.

Delay & Risk Management

- Identify potential delays, schedule risks, and areas of concern, and escalate them to the project team in a timely manner.

- Assess the schedule impact of variations, changes, and delayed activities.

- Support the assessment of Extension of Time (EOT) submissions and delay claims and contribute to delay analysis.

- Monitor corrective and recovery actions proposed by contractors and support recovery/mitigation planning.

Coordination & Stakeholder Management

- Coordinate with project managers, consultants, contractors, and engineers to obtain accurate progress information.

- Participate in progress meetings and provide planning and schedule updates.

What we are looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Construction Management, or a related engineering discipline.

- Minimum 5–8 years of relevant planning experience in construction, project management, or real estate development.

- Strong UAE construction experience is preferred.

- Prior experience with a Project Management Consultancy (PMC), Engineering Consultancy, Developer, or Client-side organization is highly preferred.

- Strong hands-on experience with Primavera P6; good knowledge of Microsoft Project and Excel.

- Solid understanding of construction sequencing, project scheduling, critical path analysis, and progress measurement.

- Experience reviewing contractors' baseline, recovery, and revised programmers.

- Knowledge of FIDIC contracts, EOT assessment, and delay analysis are an advantage.

- Experience with residential, commercial, hospitality, or mixed-use developments is preferred.

Technical Skills

- Primavera P6

- Project Planning & Scheduling

- Baseline Programmed Review

- Critical Path Analysis

- Progress Monitoring & Measurement

- S-Curves & Progress Reporting

- Look-Ahead Planning

- Recovery Programmed Review

- Delay Analysis

- EOT Review & Assessment

- Construction Sequence Analysis

- Project Controls

- Dashboard & Management Reporting

- Advanced Microsoft Excel