Lead Planner

About the Role

UrbaCon Contracting & Trading Company is seeking a Lead Planner to oversee all staff planning and ensure the application of best practices in project controls and planning across all projects. This full-time role involves highlighting overall progress, delays, and areas of concern to management, and providing support for delay analysis and complex project controls issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee all project planning staff and activities, ensuring consistent application of planning and project controls best practices and compliance with company standards.
• Develop, review, and maintain integrated project schedules for engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up activities, ensuring schedule integrity through baseline control and change management.
• Monitor overall project progress and performance, identifying key risks, delays, and variances, and preparing progress dashboards, KPI reports, and executive summaries for senior management.
• Prepare and manage manpower forecasts and revenue projections aligned with approved schedules and project execution plans, monitoring daily manpower requirements.
• Support projects with schedule risk assessments, delay analysis, and extension of time (EOT) evaluations, providing expert planning input on complex project controls issues and recovery strategies.
• Review technical documents, programs, and workshop scopes to understand planning and execution impacts, and prepare planning-related responses to formal correspondence.
• Coordinate planning interfaces between engineering, procurement, construction, cost control, and site teams to ensure schedule alignment and resolve constraints.
• Ensure effective use of planning systems and tools, including Primavera P6 and ERP platforms like SAP, supporting data integration and reporting consistency.
• Support HSE initiatives and ensure planning activities align with safety, quality, and cost objectives, participating in safety awareness and incident reporting.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 8 years of working experience.
• At least 5 years of relevant working experience in a planning role.
• 2 years of GCC experience is preferred.

Work Type

This is a full-time position.