Senior Planner (Primavera P6 | Project Controls | Construction)

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Develop, review, and maintain detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 or MS Project.
• Establish baselines, critical paths, milestones, and completion dates in line with contract requirements.
• Prepare short-, medium-, and long-term plans and look-ahead schedules.
• Monitor actual progress against the baseline and forecast completion dates.
• Collect and verify progress data from project managers, site engineers, and subcontractors.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and ad hoc progress reports, dashboards, and schedule analyses.
• Conduct critical path and delay analyses and prepare EOT documentation.
• Assess impacts of variations, design changes, late approvals, and site constraints on the programme.
• Develop recovery plans, mitigation strategies, and contingency schedules.
• Track manpower, equipment, material, and subcontractor requirements against the schedule.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, commercial, and subcontractor teams.
• Lead planning discussions, liaise with clients and consultants, guide junior planners, implement planning procedures, and advise senior management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Mechanical, or Construction Engineering, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of planning and scheduling experience on construction, infrastructure, or EPC projects.
• Expert in Primavera P6; good command of MS Project and MS Excel.
• Proven experience in baseline development, progress monitoring, delay analysis, and EOT claims.
• Strong understanding of CPM, resource loading, and earned value.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading or mentoring a planning team.

Listed skills

• Primavera P6, project planning, project scheduling, CPM, project controls, delay analysis, EOT, progress monitoring, MS Project, baseline programme, MS Excel, Power BI, Asta Powerproject, dashboards and KPI reporting, procurement tracking.
• Additional listed skills include construction planning, look-ahead and recovery planning, time impact and windows analysis, earned value management, resource planning, risk management, schedule analysis, progress reporting, S-curves, milestone tracking, and variation impact assessment.

Work location

• Work location is listed as Dubai.