Senior Planning Engineer

Job description / Role

Job Description
- Planning and Scheduling: Developing project plans, defining project objectives, and creating schedules that outline the activities, timelines, and milestones of the project.
- Cost Control: Monitoring and managing project budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring that costs are kept within the approved limits. This includes analyzing cost variances, conducting cost forecasts, and recommending corrective actions if necessary.
- Progress Tracking: Monitoring project progress against the established schedule and milestones. This includes tracking task completion, identifying delays or bottlenecks, and communicating project status to stakeholders.
- Communication and Reporting: Facilitating effective communication among project team members and stakeholders. This includes preparing regular progress reports, presenting project updates to management, and addressing any issues or concerns raised by stakeholders.
- Plan for bidding activities to assure all inputs prepared and provided by different parties as per the bidding process.
- Track targets for activities based on each phase of a project plan and ensure it meets client's specifications.
- Understand project specifications and develop time schedules and budgets that meet them.
- Overlook on overall master schedule integrating revenues / cash plan / forecast and actual figures.
- Prepareprojects budgets according to the approved P&L and follow up the budgeted cost items.
- Assure to stay within the project each item cost budget and discuss each case with the relevant PM before action.
- Coordinate with procurement team to have one master procurement plan synchronized with targets and report progress to GSEC management team.
- Make comparisons between planned progress and actual progress and report any differences the project managers
- Report deviations recognized on the budget, prepare recovery plans and seeking management approval.
- Coordinate a master consolidated projects CM plan synchronized with projects schedules and report progress to the management team concerned.
- Analyze technical drawings and provide material and cost estimates.
- Ensure all projects are completed on time and within budget.
- Overlook on overall master schedule integrating revenues plan/forecast and actual figures

Requirements

Personal Skills
- Excellent Communication Skills.
- Very Good Time Management skills.
- Very Good Problem-solving.
- Excellent planning skills.

Technical Skills

Report Writing .
- Project planning using MS project or Primavera.
- Very good computer skills, i.e.; specialized software, Excel.

Education
- Bachelor of Engineering with a Specialization in Electrical Engineering

About the Company

Giza Systems, a leading systems integrator in the MEA region, designs and deploys industry-specific technology solutions for asset-intensive industries such as the telecoms, utilities, oil and gas, hospitality and real estate among other market sectors. We help our clients streamline their operations and businesses through our portfolio of solutions, managed services, and consultancy practice. Our team of 1000 professionals are spread throughout the region with anchor offices in Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai, Doha, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Abuja, Kampala and New Jersey, allowing us to service an ever-increasing client base in over 40 countries.