Planning Engineer

Responsibilities:

• To deliver and maintain standard, consistent and realistic project plans reflecting the assessed risk parameters for each project.
• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for major, complex projects.
• Develop the list of plans required to execute the project and their hierarchy relationship.
• Drive, manage and ensure completeness of the development of the activities, logic, resources and progress for the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline and its subsequent maintenance.
• Instigate, develop and police the planning and progress monitoring procedures to ensure that each element of the project performs the processes timely and consistently.
• Own the overall schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses.
• Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy.
• Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project Management.
• Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project.
• Prepare reconciliation between earlier schedules and the current schedule.
• Consolidate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and "what if scenarios" to aid project management decision-making.
• Liaise with and challenge Senior Project Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
• Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan.
• Contribute to the development of contract strategies documents.
• Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.
• Contribute to the development of the project's risk profiles and translate these into the plans using deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods, as appropriate.
• Regularly track the schedule risk mitigation efforts, the criticality of the main paths to completion, float consumption and the release of the 50/50 schedule contingency.
• Implement, ensure compliance and utilize the company standard tools and processes.
• Provide input data for and conduct benchmarking activities.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From AED4,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• When is your availability to join?

Experience:

• Planning Engineer: 4 years (Required)