Senior Planning Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Develop, review, and monitor baseline, detailed, recovery, and updated programmes; review contractor logic, durations, resources, activities, and interfaces.
• Track actual versus planned progress, delays, critical activities, risks, milestones, resources, and productivity; verify contractor progress against site activity.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and look-ahead programmes and progress reports; analyze critical paths and recommend mitigation and recovery measures.
• Monitor roads, utilities, earthworks, structures, reclamation, dredging, rock placement, marine protection, revetments, and marine structures.
• Track design submissions, approvals, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover milestones.
• Review delay events, Extension of Time submissions, delay analysis, and Time Impact Analysis; attend meetings and coordinate progress reporting with project teams.
• Support the Project Manager on programme risks and recovery measures and maintain accurate planning records supported by reliable site information.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Relevant planning and project controls experience on major infrastructure and marine works.
• Strong experience with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge of construction planning, scheduling, progress measurement, critical path and delay analysis, and infrastructure and marine sequencing and interfaces.
• Experience reviewing Extension of Time submissions, delay analysis, and Time Impact Analysis.
• UAE experience on major infrastructure and marine projects is preferred.
• Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and reporting skills.

Workplace

• Work location model is on-site.
• New hires must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office.