Planner - Leading to Directorship

Job description / Role

Planner / Senior Planner / Planning Manager - Leading to Directorship - Dubai - Major civils

Client is a Tier 1 Main Contractor, that are extremely well respected across the Middle East, having worked there for over 50 years now.

Year on year that have shown growth, in terms of Turnover, staff, size of projects as well as Sectors of industry and locations across the Middle East. They will typically be Tendering for the largest projects currently happening within Civil Engineering (Highway / Maintenance / Infrastructure / Roads / Rail / Utilities).

The role will be to lead and undertake the planning function within the Middle East division of the business.

The successful candidate will clearly communicate project objectives to the team to ensure clarity of direction, to ensure all parties are clear on priorities and that critical activities are achieved.

The successful candidate will work alongside the commercial team to ensure accurate reporting using Earned Value Management. They will be capable of investigating the results to ensure that data is accurate and representative of progress. They will be able to summarise period and cumulative project positions. They will be capable of troubleshooting when data is not representative.

The successful candidate will work with the project team to produce programmes to demonstrate the impact of change.

The successful candidate will have experience in the review and acceptance or rejection of subcontractor programmes.

Requirements

Required experience, qualifications & Skills:
- Planning expertise: proven ability in Engineering Planning of major Highway Projects demonstrating a detailed working knowledge of construction methods and outputs of bulk Earthworks, drainage, pavement, highway structures and associated planning software
- Communication: Capable of communicating the programme to the team and gaining buy in to a clear vision of what is required in order to deliver on the projects objectives.
- Project Controls: Experience of working alongside the commercial team to provide accurate reporting of the project position using Earned Value Management.
- Commercial Awareness: Good commercial awareness and thorough understanding of the change process
- Reporting: Implements best practice when it comes to progress reporting using Primavera 6
- Teamwork: Confidently works with the engineering and construction teams to develop detailed plans for critical works. Identifies interfaces and problem areas and can work solutions.

Behaviours:
- Excellent communication skills
- Proactive and positive attitude
- Professional approach
- High ethics
- Excellent team worker
- Demonstrates alignment to Company Vision and values

About the Company

SSA Ltd. (Sommerman Skinner Associates) find out the detail to allow you to make qualified judgments about your career and its progression. On the companies that we represent (over 2000 spread across a diverse spectrum of industry) we will be able to inform you of contracts pending, awarded, company growth, opportunity, relative reward and internal prospects. We believe that through spending time and effort front end through interviewing or individual dedication we can offer real advice that will be valued. Our founder is degree qualified with extensive exposure to industry and with a career also behind him in Recruitment Management. Our team is made up of qualified construction professionals. We specialise in both permanent and freelance opportunities to qualified construction professionals.

Disciplines covered include:

Site Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers, Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Managers, Planners, Safety, Purchasers, Estimators and Design Executive.