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Ref: HP331-686
Job description / Role
This role will provide an excellent opportunity to further develop your career and work alongside experienced industry professionals in a dynamic, outcome focused environment.
Provide necessary planning techniques and deliverables to company and to client team. Also, provide guidance in developing and adopting a practical progress measurement method and structure, aligning with the Plans WBS, and establish planning deliverables. This position will be reporting to Planning Manager.
Using your experience with Primavera your key responsibilities will include:
1. Work Breakdown Structure & Work Order Structure development
2. Understand the scope of the project.
3. Identifying the best series of events in the correct order for the project to finish on time and on budget.
4. Presenting the schedules to others in the company and in client organization involved in the project.
5. Schedule development using our clients specific project and design methodologies
6. Conduct schedule development meetings with Drafts-persons, Engineers and Project Managers to develop and define schedule scope as project matures
7. Coordination of vendors schedules into the master schedule
8. Monitoring the progress of the project at different stages of its development.
9. Reporting on schedule progress, critical path and critical tasks
10. Provide budgeting and forecasting assistance to the Project Management Team
11. Work within standard project planning/scheduling procedures. Ensure that these procedures comply with contractual reporting requirements and, if not, modify accordingly.
Requirements
* Minimum 5 years project planning experience within the Middle East essential
* Engineering Graduate
* Conceptual understanding of planning theory, i.e critical path, delay, concurrence.
* Practical experience in the creation of Extension of Time and Delay claims and must be able to demonstrate where and how you have done this.
* Experience creating a plan from scratch.
* Must have proven track record of advancement within a major contractor
About the Company
Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.
We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:
- focus on quality
- seek world class design and excellence
- strive to add value
- be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society
Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).