Project Planning Engineer

Job Summary

The Project Planning Engineer is responsible for developing and maintaining robust project schedules to support the successful delivery of design and build projects. This role ensures the preparation of accurate tender, baseline, and progress programs, providing the project team with the tools needed to achieve on-time and cost-effective execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that logically linked, cost and resource loaded programs are developed, monitored and reported on using Primavera (MS Projects).
• Collaborate with design, operational and estimating colleagues at contract award to ensure a baseline program is developed to the highest of standards that will achieve the best possible business outcomes
• Create procurement plan and follow up the materials delivery schedule.
• Engage with subcontractor project teams to integrate external programs into a single logically linked project program showing definitive work packages and key interface milestones.
• Support Project Managers with scheduling expertise including the capture and management of change events
• Analyze schedule, resource, cost and risk data throughout the project lifecycle to aid the maintenance and progress of the critical path
• Build float into programs using recognized methods in order to promote confidence in milestone achievement
• Conduct site visits and engage with site teams to verify project progress
• Resource loading and resource levelling/productivity exercises to suit project and portfolio requirements
• Perform and comment on Earned Value Management reports, early/late S-curves, milestone slippage reports and float erosion reports
• Attend progress meetings as required, both internal and external, to report on progress and risk, and to provide specialist program /project controls support to the team
• Promote planning best practice throughout all levels of the business at all opportunities and take part in business improvement and professional development activities
• Input into the development of team spirit and trustworthiness within project team, client and subcontractors

Qualifications

• • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering .
• • 3–5 years of experience in underground transmission power line projects .
• • Proficiency in Primavera P6 (certification preferred, ideally from TAQA UAE).
• • Strong knowledge of MS Project and Microsoft Office Suite .
• • Experience in preparing and monitoring procurement plans and materials delivery schedules .
• • Ability to perform resource loading, resource leveling, and productivity analysis .
• • Familiarity with Earned Value Management (EVM) , progress reporting (S-curves, milestone slippage, float analysis).
• TRANSCO Approval required