Planning Manager – High-Rise Building (Dubai)

Job Purpose

Responsible for leading, managing, and monitoring all planning, scheduling, and progress control functions for a major high-rise building project in Dubai, ensuring timely delivery in accordance with project objectives, contractual requirements, and company standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, update, and maintain the overall project master schedule using Primavera P6.
• Prepare baseline programs, recovery schedules, delay analyses, and extension of time (EOT) justifications.
• Monitor project progress against the baseline and report deviations, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate with project management, engineering, procurement, and construction teams to ensure accurate schedule inputs.
• Lead weekly and monthly progress review meetings with contractors, consultants, and stakeholders.
• Prepare detailed progress reports, dashboards, S-curves, manpower histograms, and project KPIs.
• Identify schedule delays, critical paths, and recommend acceleration or corrective actions.
• Coordinate with the commercial and contracts team to support claims, variations, and cost/time impacts.
• Ensure compliance with Dubai project delivery standards, contractual obligations, and authorities requirements.
• Support tendering and pre-contract activities including preparation of construction schedules and method statements.
• Mentor planning engineers and support the development of planning procedures across the project.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or Construction Management.
• Minimum 10+ years of planning experience, with at least 5 years in high-rise building projects in the UAE or GCC.
• Strong command of Primavera P6 and MS Office applications.
• Solid knowledge of construction sequencing, methodologies, and multidiscipline coordination.
• Strong understanding of contractual frameworks such as FIDIC.
• Excellent leadership, communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Experience preparing EOT claims, delay analyses (windows, impacted as-planned, etc.), and forensic planning preferred.

Personal Profile

• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to work under pressure.
• Strong professional presence and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to work with diverse multicultural project teams.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent