Senior Planning Engineer (Rail) | Middle East
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Job Summary
The Senior Planning Engineer is responsible for planning and scheduling activities for assigned bids/projects/programs against an approved baseline (PMB).
The role ensures effective monitoring and control of deliverables, schedule risks, workload and costs, and supports management decision-making through robust reporting and analysis.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules (baseline and updates) using contract documents, WBS, cost and resource loading.
- Lead progress measurement, critical path management, schedule updates, and performance reporting (weekly/monthly KPIs).
- Conduct schedule risk analysis (SRA) and probabilistic scheduling; apply PERT/critical path methods and acceleration concepts.
- Support Earned Value set-up, tracking, variance analysis (schedule/cost) and reconciliation of estimate vs forecast vs actuals.
- Prepare delay analysis and support claims/EOT with Commercial; draft planning narratives and substantiation.
- Lead stakeholder coordination (Client/Consultant/PM) to mitigate schedule risks and avoid delays.
- Own the quality of project controls deliverables: schedules, cost reports, dashboards, and planning procedures.
- Contribute to risk management (risk register updates, contingency discussions) and portfolio/resource capacity planning.
Preferred
- Experience with Communications & Control / Security / Passenger Information / Comfort systems in metro/rail environments.
- Professional certification(s) in planning/scheduling.
HSE
Comply with local HSE laws and
Company
HSE policy; stop work if unsafe and report immediately.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
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