Planning Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Prepare and update baseline, detailed, recovery, and short-term programmes; review contractor logic, durations, resources, relationships, and sequences.
• Compare planned and actual progress, identify delays and critical activities, and develop lookahead programmes and weekly and monthly updates.
• Coordinate with construction, engineering, QA/QC, and site teams to verify progress on bridge works, including piling, foundations, piers, abutments, retaining walls, and decks.
• Monitor infrastructure works including earthworks, roads, drainage, wet and dry utilities, and interfaces among project activities.
• Track milestones across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover; prepare reports, dashboards, and S-curves.
• Identify programme risks and impacts, support recovery measures, and assist with EOT submissions, delay analysis, and TIA.
• Monitor contractor manpower, resources, and productivity; maintain planning records and support project closeout.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Relevant planning and project controls experience on major infrastructure and bridge projects.
• Strong knowledge of construction planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, critical path analysis, and project controls.
• Experience with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel; understanding of sequencing, resource planning, lookahead and recovery programmes.
• Experience with EOT, delay analysis, and Time Impact Analysis.
• UAE experience on major infrastructure projects is preferred.

Onboarding

• New hires must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location.

Benefits

• Depending on employment status, benefits may include health and disability coverage, paid time off, voluntary benefits, well-being resources, business travel insurance, retirement savings, and employee stock purchase plans.

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