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Planning Engineer - Consultancy - 2-3 Month Contract

United Arab Emirates  |  Contract

Our global Engineering consultancy client has a new requirement for a well experienced consultant Planning Engineer to join their team in Al Ain. Successful candidates will have a proven background as a Planning Engineer on large scale civil construction projects in UAE and the wider GCC and have worked for a recognised consultancy / PMC business previously


This role is available for immediate joining and is an initial 2-3 month fixed term contract position outsourced through J10 Consulting.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure proactive project planning, stakeholder relations, and risk management takes place across projects
  • Prepare and update the Programme-wide enterprise schedules of all running & future projects in Primavera P6 Professional.
  • Manage, monitor a schedule of planned resources required to deliver the project.
  • Check the resources against the fee to ensure they balance forecast.
  • Create and review tender Schedules during bidding phases.
  • Create and review baselines, recovery/revised and updated periodic schedules.
  • Review Project Managers/ Resident Engineer's weekly reports and provide Schedule inputs as required
  • Incorporate additional works into Schedules as required and update / maintain additional works logs.
  • Review and manage contractors Schedules
  • Regularly review resource usage against the schedule and recommend/take corrective action where required.
  • Establish Issue Register and follow-up issue's impacting the project's schedule.
  • Generate detailed and executive summary reports for higher management.
  • Monitor and analyze progress & efficiency of each project and report to supervisors and managers
  • Maintain a database of projects progress
  • Assist in the review and preparation of documents to support claims management and in particular extensions of time.
  • Present on all the above to Clients and internal managers


Planning Engineer Experience:

  • B.Sc degree in a relevant engineering discipline
  • Proven experience in managing a team
  • Planning of Professional Services (Engineering and consultancy services);
  • Proven track record of having contributed to the development of procedures related to planning and schedules review.
  • 7+ years of experience in planning management and cost engineering
  • Certification in planning and scheduling of projects and in using Primavera applications (Primavera Project Management / P6 and Primavera Contract Management / Expedition)
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
  • Ability to handle complex situations with professionalism and confidentiality
  • Previous experience in a Tier 1 Consultancy or PMC business is essential.


Interested candidates are invited to share their up to date CV and details directly to jobs@j10consulting.ae for further review and process


Date Posted: 11 Jul 2023

Status: Filled