Planning Engineer

Your tasks

The Planning Engineer is responsible for developing, monitoring, and maintaining project schedules to ensure successful project execution. This role involves preparing in-depth schedule analysis schedules and ensuring compliance with project requirements. The Planning Engineer monitors progress, identifies potential risks, and proposes corrective actions to mitigate delays. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Prepare the project baseline schedules and ensure compliance with contractual requirements and project scope. • Highlight potential risks and critical milestones during tendering phase. • Revise and finalize the baseline from all stakeholders and ensure its approved by client and project team. • Identify key activities, critical paths, and dependencies. • Prepare weekly and monthly lookahead plans and coordinate with project managers to align the lookahead with the overall schedule. • Site to obtain actual three weeks Look Ahead. • Prepare weekly and monthly reports on project progress. • Attend weekly project progress and commercial meetings. • Conduct delay analyses and provide mitigation strategies. • Prepare and implement recovery schedules to bring the project back on track. • Adjust timelines, resource allocations, and critical path activities as needed. • Monitor the project’s critical path and its impact on timelines. • Monitor shop drawing delivery • Monitor Delivery of material • Conducting continuous site visits to monitor actual progress.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. • 2-5 years in planning and project management in engineering projects. • Advanced experience with planning tools such as Primavera P6 and MS Excel formulas (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Formatting). • Advanced critical path analysis. • Strong understanding of project management principles. Skills & Abilities • Strong communication and collaborative skills with internal teams and external stakeholders. • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively. • Effective negotiation skills to secure favorable terms with subcontractors, clients, etc. • Strong report and proposal writing skills. • Good presentation skills on project progress and updates. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess project challenges and develop recovery plans and schedules.