Planning Manager – Construction

Position overview

Planning and portfolio coordination

• Develop and maintain integrated planning programmes across multiple construction projects, aligned with contracts, project objectives, and business priorities.
• Lead portfolio planning and coordinate project planners, project managers, and stakeholders on standards and timely updates.
• Prepare tender programmes and support baseline schedules, methodologies, resource plans, and execution strategies.
• Set productivity benchmarks and monitor manpower, resource loading, and performance against approved plans.
• Consolidate and monitor project cash flow, resources, progress, and forecasts across projects.
• Create portfolio dashboards and reports, including S-curves, KPIs, progress histograms, look-ahead programmes, and management reports.
• Monitor critical paths, milestones, schedule variances, potential delays, and risks; recommend corrective and recovery actions.
• Integrate QHSE requirements into planning processes, programmes, and execution plans.

Claims, reviews, and improvement

• Support claims with delay analysis, notices, Extension of Time submissions, and programme documentation.
• Coordinate planning updates with project teams, internal departments, clients, consultants, and subcontractors.
• Conduct portfolio reviews and provide management with progress, risk, resource, and completion forecasts.
• Participate in project and management meetings, audits, and performance reviews; provide weekly and monthly reporting.
• Improve planning processes, tools, standards, and practices across the construction business.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a minimum of 15 years of experience.
• A master’s degree is an advantage.
• Full understanding of construction tendering, contracts, engineering, procurement, QHSE, subcontractor control, construction activities, and authority regulations.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and other project planning tools.
• Strong verbal and written communication and coordination skills in English.
• FIDIC / PMP is listed.

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