Senior Planning Engineer

About the role

Key responsibilities

• Monitor progress against approved master programmes, baselines, and milestones.
• Review contractor and consultant schedules, look-ahead programmes, resource plans, and recovery schedules for alignment with objectives and site realities.
• Track progress, productivity, and performance metrics; conduct variance analysis, earned value analysis, and schedule forecasting.
• Identify critical path impacts, schedule risks, delays, and mitigation opportunities; recommend proactive actions.
• Perform delay analysis, time-impact assessments, and recovery planning.
• Coordinate planning across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover.
• Monitor project interfaces and authority approval milestones; escalate risks and issues.
• Prepare monthly progress reports and executive dashboards on construction status, variances, and risks, using AI-enabled reporting tools where appropriate.
• Maintain accurate planning records, reporting systems, and auditable project control documentation.
• Support digital and AI-enabled tools for schedule analysis, reporting, and performance monitoring where applicable.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or Architecture.
• At least 8 years of planning and project controls experience on large-scale construction or development projects.
• Proven experience with developers, consultants, project management consultants, or tier-one contractors.
• Experience across the lifecycle from design through construction, testing, commissioning, and handover.
• GCC or Qatar project experience is highly preferred.

Technical skills and certifications

• Primavera P6 proficiency is mandatory.
• Technical skills include planning and scheduling, integrated master programmes, baseline management and updates, CPM analysis, float analysis, and schedule assurance.
• Further skills include Earned Value Management, progress measurement and forecasting, delay analysis and Time Impact Analysis, recovery planning, schedule optimization, resource planning, and look-ahead planning.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel; Power BI and project reporting tools.
• Knowledge of AI-driven project controls, analytics, and reporting solutions is an advantage.
• Familiarity with 4D Planning and BIM integration is preferred.
• PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP, or other recognized Project Controls certifications are preferred.