Senior Planning Manager

Mace

Dubai, UAE

Ref: QP928-270

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

The opportunity

Be a part of our international consultancy business that spans our five global hubs, where we oversee work for world leading organisations across the public and private sectors.

Our Asia Pacific and India hub started in 2004 and has successfully operated in a wide range of countries, delivering project and programme management, facilities management and cost consultancy services.

Mace India has to become a business characterised by professional property and infrastructure expertise, sound commercial knowledge and a commitment to service excellence. A business exhibiting the same unique combination of management skills, best practice methods and adventurous spirit that exists with Mace globally.

The role

Senior Planning Manager

Your responsibilities will include:

• Implementing and managing the performance of the baseline schedule.
• Collecting and interpreting schedule data and providing output to the programme and project teams.
• Monitoring actual performance against the schedule to identify delay, early and late completion.
• Interfacing with the project technical staff to define change to schedules and identification of variances from the original plan.
• Identifying and evaluating associated schedule, resource conflicts and potential cost impacts and issues.
• Working closely with the contractors, evaluating their schedules and actively manage the schedules with them to ensure a successful outcome.
• Managing and maintaining schedules on a variety of projects with project managers at the same time.
• Managing schedules at various phases from feasibility through to handover to client.
• Developing of scheduling reports, together with the planning and controls leads.
• Collecting and interpreting schedule data and providing output to the programme and project teams.
• Interfacing with the project technical staff to define change to schedules and identification of variances from the original plan.

The successful applicant will need to have experience in coordinating and managing multiple stakeholders and demonstrate the ability to build robust, long term relationships and integrated teams.

Requirements

The requirements

Your experience, knowledge and skills need to include:

• Working in a client-facing role for a PMC or as a client is essential.
• Managing and coordinating stakeholders.
• International and Indian project experience.
• Broad knowledge of construction techniques with high technical expertise.
• In-depth knowledge of project management methodologies, techniques and concepts.
• Ability to review and comment on design.
• Ability to carry a quality inspections and generate onsite solutions to site coordination issues as they arise.
• Strong quality assurance skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a good team player.
• Excellent organisation and management skills.
• Proficiency in using IT systems.
• Strong communication in English and Indian languages.

Qualifications

• A relevant degree qualification.
• A member of relevant professional body.

“Mace is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people to excel.”

About the Company

Mace is an international consultancy and construction company that has delivered world class projects since 1990. Today we employ over 6,000 people across five global hubs in Europe, Middle East North Africa and India, North America, Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Four simple values guide our behaviour in our pursuit of a better way; Safety first - going home safe and well, Client focus - deliver on our promise, Create opportunity - for our people to excel, Integrity - always doing the right thing. We aim to attract the best and brightest people, whatever their background, to bring new perspectives to some of the most complex and inspiring projects around the world.

We support our people who are aiming to achieve an academic or professional qualification that will help them develop personally and deliver to the highest standard for our clients. At Mace you can deepen your knowledge, expand your skills and define your own path.

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