Planning Engineer

About UrbaCon Contracting & Trading Company

UrbaCon Contracting & Trading Company is seeking a Planning Engineer to join its team. This full-time role involves implementing and monitoring planning processes for engineering design stages, ensuring efficient project delivery without delays.

Role Summary

The Planning Engineer is responsible for overseeing the planning processes from design to construction. This includes reviewing consultant design plans, monitoring authority approvals to prevent clashes, and ensuring timely delivery of engineering designs. The role also involves monitoring the procurement process to ensure material availability on site according to construction plans and coordinating between construction needs and consultants.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide project planning and scheduling support, potentially managing a small team of planners.
• Manage project schedules in alignment with the project work breakdown structure, ensuring schedules are developed and regularly updated for effective monitoring, forecasting, and control.
• Produce scheduling for pre-design, design, tender and award, procurement, construction, and completion phases, adhering to project and contractual requirements and planning procedures.
• Analyze project requirements and prepare resource and cost-loaded planning schedules.
• Generate resource histograms for manpower, material, and submittals.
• Evaluate and analyze project progress through updated status reports in various formats, based on the contract schedule, to provide performance assessments and accurate forecasts.
• Coordinate and liaise with project managers to update detailed work programs.
• Coordinate and liaise with subcontractors and authorities regarding planning and programming matters for project interfaces.
• Liaise with the Project Director/Manager to simulate different scenarios in the schedule and prepare "What if Analysis."
• Review and evaluate subcontractor schedules and reports, recommending necessary actions to align subcontracted items with the main contract schedule.
• Prepare the progress monitoring section of the monthly report, including monthly schedule updates, for submission to the client and management.
• Participate in progress and coordination meetings to discuss project status.
• Support the implementation of HSE initiatives, participate in safety awareness activities, and contribute to incident reporting and resolution in line with company and IMS policies.

Qualifications and Experience

• 8 years of experience in a relevant field.