Planning Manager

Role overview

Planning and project controls

• Develop and maintain master programmes and detailed baseline schedules aligned with contract requirements and client milestones.
• Review and approve planning-team programmes before client or consultant submission.
• Monitor progress, update programmes, and issue weekly and monthly reports and S-curves.
• Analyze delays and critical paths; recommend recovery plans and acceleration measures.
• Prepare and review EOT claims, delay analyses, and supporting records with Contracts.
• Create resource-loaded schedules and forecast manpower, equipment, and material requirements.
• Coordinate schedule inputs across project, engineering, procurement, QS, and subcontractor teams.
• Prepare tender programmes, methodologies, and resource histograms.
• Coordinate cash-flow forecasts and progress measurement with Commercial and Finance.
• Maintain planning procedures, standards, and templates across projects.
• Verify progress and quantities for Monthly Payment Certificates against contract requirements.

Health, safety, and environment

• Take care of personal and others' health and safety, including the work environment, and cooperate to meet legal requirements.
• Report work-area health, safety, or environmental risks and incidents to a supervisor or top management.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• 12 to 15 years of construction planning experience, including at least 5 years in a managerial planning role.
• PMP or PMI-SP certification is preferred.
• Expert knowledge of Primavera P6 and MS Project.
• Arabic is required.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, decision-making, planning, and organizational skills.
• Able to work extended hours, under pressure, and to tight deadlines.

Pay

• Pay starts at AED 3,000 per month.

Work location

• Work is in person.