Planning Engineer

Job description / Role

General description of role and responsibilities:

Review and comment on the baseline schedule and other schedules and report to the controls manager.
Review and continuously monitor, against approved schedules, the contractor's major construction progress and ensure equipment and manpower are adequate or, in case of any shortage, report to controls manager.
Review in detail the recovery schedules as submitted by the contractors and ensure manpower and site supervision staff are increased properly.
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 construction manager.
Review all daily, weekly, and monthly reports as submitted by contractor and report to controls manager any deficiency or non-compliance.
Review any claim involving time impact as submitted by the contractor and report his assessment to 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 its 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 qualified engineer BSc or higher.
• Relevant certifications such as PMP are preferred.
• A qualified engineer with a minimum of 8 years' experience planning works in similar projects.
• Worked on villa or residential projects.
• Must be fully conversant with Primavera, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, etc.