Overview
Senior Planning Engineer at MIRA CONSTRUCTION L.L.C — Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We are looking for an experienced **Planning Engineer** to join our team in Dubai and take responsibility for project planning, scheduling, progress monitoring and reporting across major construction projects.
Full job description
We are looking for an experienced Planning Engineer to join our team in Dubai and take responsibility for project planning, scheduling, progress monitoring and reporting across major construction projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and update detailed project schedules from project initiation through completion
- Prepare baseline schedules, detailed work programmes and resource-loaded schedules
- Monitor project progress against approved plans and identify potential delays and risks
- Perform critical path analysis and assess the impact of delays on overall project completion
- Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, dashboards and schedule updates for project management and stakeholders
- Develop and support recovery and mitigation plans where project performance is behind schedule
- Conduct delay analysis and support the preparation of extension of time (EOT) claims
- Coordinate planning activities with Project Managers, Site Teams, Engineers, Contractors and other stakeholders
- Review contractors’ and subcontractors’ programmes and assess compliance with contractual requirements
- Monitor key project milestones and ensure that planning data accurately reflects actual site progress
- Support project forecasting and provide management with recommendations to improve schedule performance
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or a related field
- Minimum 10 years of experience as a Planning Engineer or Project Controls Engineer
- Proven experience on large-scale construction projects
- Strong knowledge of project scheduling methodologies, critical path analysis and progress monitoring
- Experience with delay analysis, recovery planning and EOT claims
- Good understanding of project controls and construction project lifecycle
- Experience working with contractors and/or consultancy companies is highly preferred
- Strong analytical, reporting and stakeholder management skills
- Professional working proficiency in English
Benefits
- Competitive salary;
- Official UAE employment status;
- Comprehensive medical insurance coverage;
Working schedule 6 days per week from Monday to Saturday and Sunday is off.
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