Sr. Planning Engineer - Civil

Role overview

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering.
• 5–8 years of relevant planning experience; UAE/GCC construction experience is preferred.
• Proven experience with residential, townhouse, villa, or low-rise building projects.
• Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6 Professional and MS Excel.
• Excellent communication, coordination, analytical, and reporting skills; able to work independently, manage priorities, and meet deadlines.

Planning knowledge and experience

• Hands-on preparation, updating, and monitoring of baseline, detailed construction, recovery/mitigation, weekly and monthly update, look-ahead, procurement, testing and commissioning, and handover programmes.
• Strong understanding of WBS, activity sequencing and relationships, calendars, constraints, critical path, and float analysis.
• Experience monitoring progress across multiple townhouse units, zones, and work fronts and coordinating with Construction, MEP, QA/QC, Procurement, Commercial, and subcontractor teams.
• Experience preparing S-curves, manpower histograms, progress reports, KPIs, and management dashboards.
• Ability to identify delays, constraints, critical activities, and potential programme impacts and recommend mitigation measures.
• Experience reviewing subcontractor programmes and monitoring progress.
• EOT, delay analysis, TIA, and critical path assessment knowledge is an advantage.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and monitor detailed project programmes with project and site teams; establish and maintain the approved baseline programme and update it based on actual site progress.
• Monitor planned versus actual progress and identify delays, slippages, and critical activities.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress updates, look-ahead schedules, S-curves, and other planning reports.
• Coordinate project disciplines to ensure activities are properly sequenced and integrated.
• Monitor procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover against the approved programme.
• Review subcontractor programmes and monitor performance against planned targets.
• Analyze programme impacts arising from delays, variations, design changes, procurement issues, and site constraints; prepare recovery and mitigation programmes where required.
• Provide planning information, progress analysis, and recommendations to project management; maintain accurate planning records and submit reports on time.

Pay

• AED 10,000–15,000 per month.

Workplace

• Work location is in person.