Senior Planning Engineer

Job description / Role

Overview

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 60 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 recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 57th largest global architecture firm and the #1 firm in the Middle East region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you'll discover more than just a job - you'll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams, and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits, you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards, mentoring and coaching programs, and extensive in-house on demand learning courses.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Planning Engineer to join our project in Medina.

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Operating to implement commercial/contractual matters within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Coordinating with project managers, consultants, and contractors to align the schedule with project milestones and deliverables.
• Monitoring progress against the baseline schedule and preparing weekly and monthly progress reports.
• Attending project meetings and providing inputs on planning, sequencing, and scheduling.
• Ensuring that planning and scheduling activities comply with contractual requirements and industry best practices.
• Supporting risk management and mitigation planning.
• Performing analysis on project variations and changes, preparing project reports, and analyzing information for adjustments to project budget as necessary to assure a successful project for the client and the firm.
• Acting to measure works on site and from drawings including competence with electronic measurement systems.
• Processing and interpreting contract conditions.
• Understanding, identifying, and assessing project risks.
• Communicating effectively, both verbal and written communication.
• Knowledge of Standard Method of Measurement of construction works.

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include 15 years work experience partnered with a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

You will have worked on various large scale mixed use projects that include luxury hotels, and the associated works that would be needed to support such assets. High rise construction experience is essential.

KEO's performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety, and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.

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.