Senior Planning Engineer

Your role

• Review and assess contractors' baseline schedules for compliance with contract requirements, project milestones, and construction sequencing.
• Monitor project progress and performance against approved baseline programmes and recommend corrective actions as required.
• Prepare and review short-term and long-term look-ahead schedules to support project execution and resource planning.
• Analyze schedule risks, critical paths, constraints, and potential impacts on project delivery.
• Conduct delay analysis and provide support for Extension of Time (EOT) assessments and claims evaluation.
• Review and validate contractor progress reports, recovery plans, and revised schedules.
• Develop project dashboards, KPI reports, earned value metrics, and schedule performance analyses.
• Coordinate with resident engineers, construction managers, contractors, and client representatives to collect and validate progress data.
• Monitor engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning activities to ensure alignment with project schedules.
• Identify schedule deviations and proactively recommend mitigation and acceleration strategies.
• Support project controls, risk management, forecasting, and change management processes.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports with clear executive summaries and schedule analysis.
• Participate in project review meetings, progress meetings, and stakeholder workshops.
• Ensure planning and reporting activities comply with contractual requirements, consultant procedures, and industry best practices.
• Review schedule impacts associated with design changes, variations, procurement issues, and site constraints.
• Assist in project closeout planning, testing and commissioning schedules, and handover milestones.