Planning Manager

Job description / Role

Planning Manager - UAE

Planning manager is responsible for short and long range project planning and scheduling functions, supervising assigned professional, technical, and clerical personnel, including department staff and outside consultants, assigning work, organizing and directing the timely completion of complex reports, other written materials, and oral reports for dissemination to project management team, client, project parties and external agencies, and coordinates activities with all packages, other divisions, and departments.

You will be responsible for monitoring the project performance; the project direction and coordinating throughout all project life-cycles and final handover to the client.

Responsibilities:
- Establishing reporting protocols
- Reporting on and assisting the sub-contractor on the integrity of all schedules.
- Maintaining the progress measurement systems by management.
- Reviewing for compliance all reports prepared by the sub-contractor.
- Carrying out studies into scheduling, manning and material flow as needed.
- Setting and monitoring the tasks within the client’s service organization.
- Attending offsite meetings as requested by the client.
- Reviewing schedules for slippage of key dates.
- Assisting in the defense / approval of any claim for time extension or major change to the schedule.
- Approving the monthly sub-contractor reports and stated progress.
- Empowering each member of the planning team to fulfill their responsibilities.
- Developing and maintaining the project master schedules.
- Overview of consultant or subcontractor schedule reviews.
- Schedule claims analysis.
- Providing information, technical support and guidance to all members of the project controls team.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in engineering or any relevant degree.
- Experience in leading on high rise, towers hotel projects and major civil programmes of works
- Must possess 18 years of total project controls, planning experience. Preferably from contractors.
- Thorough and expert knowledge of P6, P3.1, MS Project etc.
- Effective IT and communication skills in report writing, presentations and holding effective conversations.

About the Company

The name MENASA originates from both the geographical region of Middle East, North Africa & South Asia as well as the Arabic word for platform or stage. We provide the platform for employers to approach the best global talent available.

Menasa & Partners is a privately owned, fully licensed, Executive Search company head-quartered in Dubai, UAE.

From our head office in Dubai we are ideally placed to assist organizations in the global search for talent.

We specialize in providing companies not only with suitable individuals to work in their organizations but also offer unparalleled knowledge of the global markets.

Our staff all have in depth knowledge of their vertical markets therefore offering tailored strategic advice.