Senior Planner

WSP

Dubai, UAE

Ref: HP362-724

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff are looking for someone to be accountable for the production, review, monitoring and general management of time schedules for the multi-disciplinary projects and prospects for the Property & Buildings business unit across the Middle East.

The key objectives of the role are;
• Ensure proactive project planning, stakeholder and risk management takes place across projects
• Manage, monitor a schedule of forecast resources required to deliver the project. Check the resources against the fee to ensure they balance
• Regularly review resource usage against the schedule and take corrective action where required
• Prepare and update the company’s enterprise programme of all running & future projects in Primavera P6
• Create and review baselines, recovery and monthly updated programmes.
• Create and review tender programmes during bidding phases
• Review Project Managers/ Resident Engineer’s weekly reports and provide programme inputs as required
• Generate executive summary reports for higher management
• Follow up issue’s impacting the projects schedule
• Maintain a data base of projects progress
• Monitoring and analyzing progress & efficiency of each project and reporting to supervisors and managers
• Incorporate additional works into programmes as required and update& maintain additional works logs.
• Review and manage contractors programmes
• Assist in the review and preparation of documents to support claims management and in particular extensions of time
• Present on all the above to Clients and internal managers.

Requirements

How will know when you are successful in this role?
• Our clients are happy with our project planning and reporting
• Any planning related claims and disputes are being managed efficiently
• The planning team is running successfully with minimal direction from the Head of Integrated Project Delivery – Property & Buildings
• Good quality planning and scheduling is completed in a timely manner

In order to be shortlisted for the role you will have the following;-
• Hold a BEng /BSc (Hon) degree or equivalent and have at least 10 years post graduate experience in design and/ or construction project planning or planning related functions
• Member of associated professional body
• Have experience working for/ or with contractors or project management companies and can manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Confident presenting to all stakeholders including contractors and clients
• Experienced in working on claims
• Fully proficient with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project

We would like to speak with creative, positive, people focused individuals who are proactive and results-driven, have excellent client fa planning solutions. If you’re fluent in English, with a passion for new technology, and thrive upon ‘thinking out of the box’ to develop and deliver solutions to complex problems, then WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff is the right company for you!

You’ll be joining a diverse group of individuals including engineers, scientists, technicians, consultants and academics, who work together to provide the most effective and sustainable solutions for our clients.

As one of the ‘Top 20 Companies to Work For in the UAE’, we offer a supportive team based environment, continued training and development, flexible working arrangements and rewarding career opportunities.

About the Company

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Property & Buildings, Transportation & Infrastructure, Environment, Industry, Resources (including Mining and Oil & Gas) and Power & Energy sectors as well as project delivery and strategic consulting services. With 36,000 talented people in more than 500 offices across 40 countries, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

Get personalised updates on latest vacancies
Job Alerts by Email
  • Personalised updates on latest career opportunities
  • Insights on hiring and employment activity in your industry
  • Typically sent twice a month