Planning Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules using Primavera P6, including baseline, detailed, recovery, and look-ahead programmes.
• Develop WBS, activity sequencing, logic, durations, milestones, and critical paths; monitor planned versus actual progress and identify deviations.
• Collect and verify progress updates from engineering, procurement, construction, and subcontractors; prepare weekly and monthly reports, S-curves, histograms, dashboards, and KPI reports.
• Monitor critical and near-critical activities, identify constraints and risks, and recommend corrective actions, recovery plans, and mitigation programmes.
• Coordinate with project stakeholders and integrate subcontractor and supplier programmes into the overall schedule.
• Monitor engineering deliverables, procurement, material deliveries, manpower, equipment, and resources against the programme.
• Support EOT, delay analysis, variations, claims, and time-impact analysis for approved changes and delay events.
• Maintain progress, delay, change, and schedule records; prepare completion forecasts and management planning information.
• Provide guidance to junior planning engineers and staff, and comply with company planning and reporting procedures.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.
• Minimum 3 years of UAE experience; the role overview also states 2–3 years of experience.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and ability to adapt quickly to PACT software.
• Experience managing detailed Level 1, 2, and 3 schedules and in construction planning and project controls.
• Experience preparing contractual letters, delay notices, and responses to client correspondence.
• Experience with progress monitoring and reporting, and preparation of mitigation and recovery plans.

Pay

• Pay is AED 4,100–5,000 per month; the description separately lists a salary range of AED 4,000–5,000.

Workplace

• Work location is in person; the role location is stated as UAE.