Planning Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Review contractor baseline schedules for contract compliance, milestones, and construction sequencing; monitor performance and recommend corrective action.
• Prepare short- and long-term look-ahead schedules and analyze risks, critical paths, constraints, and delivery impacts.
• Conduct delay analysis and support Extension of Time assessments and claims evaluation.
• Review contractor progress reports, recovery plans, and revised schedules; develop dashboards, KPI reports, earned value metrics, and schedule analyses.
• Coordinate with resident engineers, construction managers, contractors, and clients to validate progress data.
• Monitor engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning activities against schedules; recommend mitigation and acceleration strategies.
• Support project controls, risk management, forecasting, and change management; prepare weekly and monthly progress reports.
• Participate in project meetings and workshops; ensure compliance with contractual requirements, consultant procedures, and industry best practices.
• Review schedule impacts from design changes, variations, procurement issues, and site constraints; assist with closeout, testing, commissioning, and handover schedules.

Candidate requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Planning and Controls.
• Primavera P6 capability or certification is preferred.
• Relevant experience includes baseline programme review, progress monitoring, look-ahead schedules, delay analysis, EOT support, dashboards, and reporting.

Rewards and benefits

• Benefits include tax-free salary, life and medical insurance, annual leave, company gratuity, discretionary bonus, annual flight contribution, and transportation and housing allowances.
• Employee wellbeing support provides access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, health, fitness, and nutrition.

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