Planning Engineer

Role overview

Scope, scheduling, and monitoring

• Analyze project scope from charters and contract documents, develop a Work Breakdown Structure, and identify milestones and deliverables with stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain L1–L5 schedules using Primavera P6 or equivalent tools; sequence activities and align them with resources and productivity norms.
• Prepare and distribute weekly or biweekly look-ahead schedules; manage critical paths, constraints, and schedule interfaces.
• Coordinate schedule reviews and approvals with internal and external stakeholders.
• Track progress using baseline comparisons, Earned Value Management, and S-curves; report time, cost, and physical completion.
• Prepare dashboards and variance reports, conduct delay analysis, maintain delay registers, and develop what-if mitigation scenarios.
• Participate in internal and client reviews, present updates, document lessons learned, and transfer knowledge to the organizational database.

Cost, resources, and coordination

• Prepare project budgets and allocate costs at WBS level; define cost control accounts and expense categories.
• Monitor expenditure against budget and forecast project financial performance.
• Support Finance and Commercial with revenue recognition, cost tracking, and invoicing; prepare invoices with supporting documentation under contractual terms.
• Maintain project cash-flow statements and resource histograms; define manpower and equipment resource structures and track resource allocation and consumption.
• Monitor productivity and coordinate material delivery and usage with Procurement; prepare construction material reconciliation statements.
• Liaise between planning, site, engineering, procurement, and client teams; manage project correspondence and provide data for audits, compliance checks, and client inspections.
• Identify risks and delays, escalate critical issues, suggest recovery plans, and maintain a risk register and mitigation actions.

Qualifications and experience

• Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree in civil or mechanical engineering and at least five years of hands-on project planning and control experience.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, MS Project, and MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Infrastructure, construction, or oil and gas experience is preferred.
• Strong understanding of planning principles, cost control, and project management; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, coordination, and interpersonal skills; ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.

Key competencies

• Project scheduling and planning; Earned Value Management; cost control and budgeting; risk analysis and mitigation.
• Stakeholder communication; resource management; report generation and documentation; problem solving and critical thinking; time management and organization.

Pay

• AED 4,000–6,000 per month.

Employment type

• The description states full-time employment.

Work arrangement

• Working conditions are described as hybrid.
• The posting also states work location is in person.