Senior Planner

Job description / Role

Key Responsibilities:

- Liaise between individual project teams and executive management
- Investigate phasing of the portfolio of current and upcoming projects
- Prepare the master programme for the portfolio of projects
- Conduct comprehensive analysis of phasing options within individual projects
- Prepare the master programme for each individual project
- Prepare and manage strategic programmes, including design, procurement and construction schedules together with supporting information and supporting schedules
- Coordinate with the Contracts and Commercial teams to ensure delays and variations are analyzed properly
- Review construction programmes received from contractors and analysing them in line with the contractual requirements
- Arrange planning workshop meetings to discuss and assist contractors and/or consultants to close their planning issues
- Review contract documents, suggesting changes for planning and programming aspects and the addition of new clauses as necessary
- Review subcontractor delay claims
- Prepare extension of time analysis
- Prepare analysis of critical path
- Develop work plans for the project based Planners

Requirements

Experiences and Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree from recognised university;
- Must have Mixed Use building project experience;
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
- Team and /or independent worker;
- Possess good project background and proven English language technical writing ability and skills

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).