Planning Engineer

Title                            Planning Engineer

Location                     Dubai-UAE

Company                    Real Estate Development

Job Description

We are seeking a reliable Planning Engineer with 6 to 10 years of experience in the role. The ideal candidate should have worked with a Consultant, Contractor, or PMC on high-rise building projects, with at least 6 years of experience in the UAE. Experience with developers is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Understand entire Project Lifecycle and prepare detailed project scope and establish planning, scheduling & reporting requirements in line with Contract Agreement.

• Responsible for developing resource loaded & logically sequenced detailed project baseline schedule for overall turnaround scope including pre-turnaround (Pre-TA), turnaround execution, and post turnaround (post-TA) phases.

• Establish formats & frequency for progress reporting of project.
• Verify & consolidate resource requirements (manpower, equipment’s, tools/ consumables) based on norms and project schedule requirements.

• Sets up alert for all important contractual & milestone dates
• Regular follow ups with the responsible parties to ensure timely achievement of all targets and milestone and raise flags whenever not achieved and suggest and implement recovery    programmes.

• Extract look-ahead schedules and provide to all parties including development team, Construction team and others.

• Monitor project progress & update project schedule versus baseline schedule; and adjust schedule for any scope change.

• Monitor Critical/ Near-critical activities and report any deviation from schedule to Turnaround manager & concerned teams / Sr Management .

• Provide scheduling support to Project Manager regarding any variation or change order.
• Review job packages and walk down assigned tasks/ progress with Project Manager.
• Arrange for preparation & submission of progress reports to client & HO.

Requirements

• An engineering degree (Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Discipline) from accredited university.
• 6 to 10 years’ experience of working as Planning Engineer with Consultant, Contractor or PMC in high-rise buildings with min 6+ years in UAE. Experience with developer is preferred.
• Must have good knowledge & experience of planning tools, software’s & techniques.
• Should have worked 5+ years on Primavera or Aconex software.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize & prioritize time/ workload and delegate work to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines.
• Ability to read and understand specifications, schematics, diagrams and drawings.
• Must have good knowledge of turnaround process & events.
• Skilled at effective communications including good interpersonal skills as well as written and verbal skills. Must be able to communicate effectively with management, contractors and engineers.
• Must possess & experience of resource (manpower, equipment’s, tools/ consumables) computations using norms.
• Good knowledge of MS Office & 365 platform apps is essential