Planning Manager

Job description / Role

- Oversee and coordinate the planning requirements of project.
- Oversee the preparation of the project contractual critical path project schedule including breakdown structure for submission and approval based on contract documents.
- Ensure that detailed project schedules are prepared based on uniform company planning procedures.
- Oversee the preparation of regular updates using all information received from PM, PCM, subcontractors, and suppliers.
- Oversee the preparation and tracking of schedule of resources (plant and manpower) to meet activities milestones. (Histograms).
- Oversee the preparation and regular updates, and tracking of material schedules (submission, approval, order, delivery) in accordance with contract schedule ensuring timely availability of materials to minimize storage requirements whilst preventing negative schedule impact, and produces related reports to the PM.
- Monitor the progress of the works against the contract schedule, advise on schedule slippage and oversee the preparation of recovery plans.
- Oversee the production of internal and external reports as directed. (Project budget statements, cash flow etc.)
- Perform weekly backups of all modified schedule data files.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering with 15+ years experience with contractors, must have worked as a Planning Manager and handed prestigious / best quality and complex high rise building (Residential / Commercial, Hotels or Hospitals) projects worth more than U.S. $200m each with leading contracting companies.

Must be hands on and capable of leading a team of planners, proficient in Primavera and Excel spreadsheet software and able to set up project plans independently in excess of 10,000 activities with resource loading, updates and reports.

Knowledge of cost control is an advantage.

About the Company

Arabian Construction Company (ACC) is a dynamic and progressive organization that has grown to become a leader in its industry.

ACC has been operating since 1967, through a comprehensive regional network all over the Middle-East.

From power generation and desalination plants, to factories, hotels, hospitals, and intricately sophisticated smart buildings: ACC’s track record is a prestigious list of efficiently delivered projects.

ACC’s management consists of highly qualified professionals with a distinguished track record in the region.

ACC’s staff have always taken-on the challenge of broadening fields of operations and increasingly complex work standards over the past 40 years. In doing so, they have constantly acquired new skills and expertise that kept them ahead in the industry.