Engineer, Planning

Job Purpose

Project Planning

• Contribute/ recommend and maintain systems and procedures covering the areas of planning, scheduling progress measurement and reporting.
• Participate / review project execution strategies and implementation schedules advise on logic, duration and mode of implementation.
• Check that suitable contractual provisions are made in all contracts to provide appropriate planning and scheduling data, information and documentation.
• Prepare the planning formats with respect to project control department in the Tender documents and participate in technical evaluation bids.
• Review the planning and scheduling documents, such as master schedules, progress reports, ‘S’ curves and bar charts etc. prepared properly by Consultants and Contractors in accordance with contractual time schedules and frequencies.
• Participate / recommend necessary planning documents for Company approval and follow up/ monitor regular update by Consultants and Contractors.
• Identify and monitor regularly the critical and sub-critical activities and their impact on the project schedules.
• Monitor the reported progress of Consultants/Contractors and verify that the reports accurately reflect the actual performance and productivity.
• Check the weekly and monthly reports submitted by Consultants and Contractors.
• Review and calculate the Change Request and Contract Trend Notice related to time impact.
• Assess / evaluate the claims submitted by Consultants and Contractors.
• Check the work forecasts and plan for remaining activities and comments on the proposals for any amendments to original plans and schedules.
• Analyse work progress trends for potential problems, identify areas of concern and moitor implications of such problems and propose possible course of action for timely completion of projects.
• Attend regular monthly / weekly progress review meetings. Prepare monthly executive reports on project status and progress, and reviews the project close-out reports.
• Participate in resource deployment and work of contractors, and propose corrective actions.

Minimum Qualification

Minimum Experience, Knowledge & Skills

• 6 years’ experience in planning and scheduling in Major Building/Civil Projects in a large organization.
• Must be conversant with Primavera, MS Projects, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, etc.
• Good knowledge of English.