Senior Engineer - Planning

Role overview

Planning and progress monitoring

• Understand work scope, quantities, and logical sequencing of construction disciplines.
• Review and monitor contractor, subcontractor, and utilities procurement and construction programmes using Critical Path Method analysis.
• Work with contractor planners to monitor and amend the contractor's baseline programme.
• Prepare progress reports, graphs, and critical path analyses for weekly and monthly PMC reports.
• Review actual progress against the construction programme and report findings to the Project Lead.
• Attend site and hold workshops with the site supervision team to assess actual progress.
• Conduct independent site visits to compare contractor progress with the programme and report findings to the Project Lead.

Risk, claims, and delay analysis

• Report risks, opportunities, and mitigation strategies to the Project Lead to help maintain the project completion date.
• Advise the Project Lead of early warnings about potential delay events.
• Support the Cost Control Team in assessing programme risks and opportunities related to additional works and variations.
• Maintain programme monitoring records to support evaluation of contractor claims and variations.
• Assist the PMC with negotiations, arbitration, and other dispute resolution.
• Review Time Impact Analysis, Window/APAB claims, defenses, particulars, and event chronologies; investigate delay events and concurrent delay.
• Review and prepare prospective and retrospective delay analyses, and present and discuss EoT claims with knowledge of contract mechanisms.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• At least 15 years of post-graduate experience in project planning, scheduling, and progress monitoring for building projects.

Onboarding

• Newly hired employees must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location.

About AECOM

Benefits

• Depending on employment status, benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, disability, paid time off, voluntary benefits, flexible work options, well-being resources, retirement savings, and employee stock purchase plans.