Senior Planning Engineer

Role overview

Planning and scheduling duties

• Develop initial baseline schedules with limited project information and include all project stages and stage gates.
• Prepare strategic programmes and coordinate master planning, engineering, procurement, and construction schedules.
• Set reporting procedures; produce monthly progress reports, dashboards, and weekly high-level schedule updates.
• Review designer and contractor schedules and reports for compliance with project objectives.
• Analyze trends, planned versus actual progress, key-date slippage, and progress issues; recommend corrective measures.
• Monitor design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and submittal progress; use earned value and programme KPIs.
• Coordinate with project controls, project teams, designers, PMCs, contractors, subcontractors, and internal management.
• Conduct scheduling, manpower, cash-flow, and material-flow studies; attend client-requested offsite meetings.
• Assist with time-extension claims and major schedule changes; support stakeholder approvals and project deliverables.
• Standardize scheduling tools, templates, procedures, and administration across the programme; support other planners.

Candidate profile

• Generally, around 15 years of experience and a track record in heritage, hotels, master planning, museums, cultural, or pavilion projects.
• A construction management and/or civil engineering degree and construction-related professional membership or chartership are ideal.
• At least 5 years of regional experience is ideal; Arabic speaking and writing is an advantage.

Rewards and benefits

• Benefits include tax-free salary, life and medical insurance, annual leave, hybrid and remote-work solutions, gratuity, discretionary bonus, annual flight contribution, relocation support, and possible transportation and housing allowances.