Senior Planning Engineer

General description of role and responsibilities:

Hill International provides program, project, and construction management services for clients in a range of sectors undertaking major construction projects across the world. Our services include cost engineering and estimating, quality assurance, inspection, scheduling, risk management, and claims avoidance.

Review and comment on the baseline schedule and other schedules and report to the controls manager.
Review and continuously monitor the contractor's major construction progress against approved schedules and ensure equipment and manpower are adequate; in case of any shortage, report to the controls manager.
Review in detail the recovery schedules as submitted by the contractors and ensure manpower and site supervision staff are increased properly.
Make regular visits to project sites to validate whether the progress of work on site is in compliance with approved schedules, major milestones have been met, and report deficiencies to the construction manager.
Review all daily, weekly, and monthly reports as submitted by the contractor and report to the controls manager any deficiency or non-compliance.
Review any claim involving time impact as submitted by the contractor and report the assessment to the controls manager.
Review field design changes and trend notices and assess time impact, if any.
Advise the construction manager of any foreseen slippage of progress and corrective actions to be taken.
Attend weekly progress meetings and monthly executive meetings and participate in preparing the agenda.
Assist controls managers during the preparation of monthly progress reports and monthly executive presentations.
Review the commissioning plans as submitted by the contractor and ensure compliance with the approved baseline schedule.
Participate with PMC staff in reviewing the close-out reports as submitted by the contractor.

Qualifications, experience, knowledge, and skills:

Should be a qualified engineer (BSc or higher).
Relevant certifications such as PMP are preferred.
A qualified engineer with a minimum of 12 to 15 years of experience planning works in similar projects.
Must be fully conversant with Primavera, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, etc.

Key skills:

• Asset management
• Garment industry knowledge
• Human resources administration
• Import and export
• Airlines sector experience
• Clinical knowledge

Employment type: Full time
Vacancy: 1