Senior Planning Engineer

Job description

Atkins Réalis is a world-leading design engineering and project management organization. We connect people, data, and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. We have been active in the Middle East and India for over 10 years with our regional headquarters in Dubai and offices in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. Our Middle East and India presence is complemented by our operations across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the USA and our 2000 plus global staff.

Job description:

Ability to develop initial baseline schedules with little project information. This requires previous experience in hospitality / mixed-use development projects.

Assist in the preparation and management of overview and strategic programmes including design, procurement, and construction schedules together with supporting information required schedules.

Include all project stages from initiation to completion in the baseline and identify stage gates accordingly.

Coordinate and manage the preparation and development of master planning, engineering, procurement, and construction schedules together with associated information required schedules.

Establish and agree project reporting procedures; prepare and present monthly project progress. Develop project and programme dashboard templates to be used across the programme by designers and contractors.

Review the schedules and related documents from the designers and contractors including monthly reports and analyse the content to ensure compliance with project objectives.

Review schedule trends to identify problem areas and recommend corrective action to management. Monitor actual progress against planned progress.

Monitor engineering design progress, material and equipment procurement, and construction and commissioning status.

Prepare progress monitoring tools using earned value for the management and monitoring of the above-mentioned schedules. Monitor progress both on and off site. Identify deviations (progress trends) in both construction and procurement progress and suggest possible courses of corrective action.

Work closely with the Project Controls Manager and Project Team to ensure that the programme is feasible, complies with the Project Master Plan and contractual documents.

Interface on a daily basis with the designers, project management consultants (PMCs), main contractor, subcontractors, and internal management.

Carry out studies into scheduling, manpower, cash flow, and material flow as needed.

Attend offsite meetings as requested by the client.

Review schedules for slippage of key dates.

Assist in the defence / approval of any claim for time extension or major change to the schedule.

Other duties as requested from time to time.

Ensure that each planning engineer runs his or her section to the highest professional standards, that all information is current, and that every member of the team is receiving the information he or she needs to fulfil their responsibilities.

Establish and maintain consistent and adequate administration procedures in their field. These procedures will be followed across the project by the respective planners working under the Construction Managers.

Participate with the project management team as directed by the Project Director to achieve project deliverables.

Involve key stakeholder requirements and approvals in the baseline.

Issue high-level schedule weekly updates.

Identify and report main issues interfering with progress.

Identify and report on measures for improving schedule performance.

Establish scheduling reporting procedures, tools, templates, instructions, etc. to standardize the work across the programme.

Monitor the timing of submittals against schedule requirements.

Develop and monitor programme KPIs.

Requirements:

Ideally, you should possess a degree in construction management and/or civil engineering and hold a membership or chartership from a construction-related professional body.

You should have a minimum of 15 years of experience in planning and scheduling with a good track record of working on luxury townhouses, villas, and residential buildings, ideally with a minimum of 5 years experience working in the region.

Arabic speaking and writing is an advantage.

Additional information:

At Atkins Réalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds, and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion, or disability but enriches itself through these differences.