Planning Engineer

Job description / Role

We draw from the expertise from over 60 nations, bringing experience from every major market of the globe. With over 2,500 multidisciplinary professionals and staff, we are an international professional consulting services firm.

We are now seeking an exceptional Planning Engineer to join our award winning team based within our Kuwait Office.

This critical role will be responsible for ensuring project delivery in line with client requirements, through the development of a project wide WBS, developing and maintaining a detailed master schedule and developing a procurement and logistics plan.

Paramount to success within this varied role will include:
• Working in conjunction with the Planning Manager and project leader in the development of overall project procurement strategy, sequencing, phasing and logistics.
• Planning, costing and scheduling metrics and tools (work breakdown structure), collecting performance data (installed quantities, expended labour hours, and other progress measurements for direct hire and subcontract labour), tracking data (daily cost compilation and monitoring), analyzing and reporting (earned value, productivity and risk analysis).
• Developing project master schedule, updating, monitoring and reviewing contractor construction schedules, submittals, material delivery, procurement logs and daily follow-up in addition to the necessary productivity measurement studies and associated corrective measures.
• Preparing, implementing, analysing and reporting on KPI's appropriate to the stage of project development.
• Implementing ‘Work Order’ procedures in conjunction with QA/QC staff.
• Identifying and tracking changes, actual and potential, to the project scope, ensuring estimates of cost changes and schedule impact are given visibility with the client and project management.
• Participating in contract administration.
• Reviewing and approving contractor’s work programme(s) submissions.
• Maintaining and reporting on project metrics issued from and through consultants, contractors and document control.
• Assisting in the preparation and presentation of the project monthly report.
• Assisting in the preparation and maintainance of the project risk plan.

Requirements

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that you will bring a minimum of 5 years' career experience with a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or any related discipline.

About the Company

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 57 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2021 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us.