Planning Engineer
Role Overview
Planning Engineer supporting project controls through project delay evaluation, claims substantiation, and strategic correspondence.
The role involves forensic planning, claim development, project correspondence strategy, and ongoing project control monitoring.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Planning Engineer supporting project controls through project delay evaluation, claims substantiation, and strategic correspondence.
The role involves forensic planning, claim development, project correspondence strategy, and ongoing project control monitoring.
Claims and delay analysis
- Evaluate project correspondence from the central server to build a comprehensive project history.
- Perform retrospective forensic delay analysis using AACE recommended practices and the SCL protocol.
- Develop project chronologies identifying concurrent delays, event sequences, and party responsibilities.
- Support claims and counterclaims with substantiation reports, narratives, and delay diagrams.
Correspondence and project controls
- Draft, review, and advise on contractual letters and responses with legal and commercial teams.
- Align correspondence with claims strategy and contractual integrity, coordinating technical inputs across teams.
- Monitor schedule progress, milestone slippage, and critical path deviations.
- Support risk mitigation and recovery plans; attend meetings and contribute to reporting, analysis, and schedule optimization.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related field.
- Five to eight years of relevant planning, project controls, and delay analysis experience.
- Proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Excel.
- Knowledge of AACE forensic delay analysis methods and the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol.
- Strong knowledge of FIDIC or equivalent standard forms of contract.
- International design consultancy experience is essential.
- GCC experience in large-scale or governmental projects is required.
- PIF company experience is an advantage; engagement with international PMCs such as JLL, WSP, Parsons, AECOM, or Mace is specified.
- Strong stakeholder coordination, analytical, report-writing, and communication skills.
Work location
- Work is in person.
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