Senior Engineer - Planning

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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineer - Planning to join our team in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In this critical role, you will be responsible for overseeing the planning, scheduling, and monitoring of complex building projects, ensuring their successful and timely completion.

• Understanding work scope, quantity, and being familiar with the logical sequencing of construction disciplines;

• Providing detailed review, analysis, and monitoring of the procurement and construction programmes with Critical Path Method analysis of the Contractor, Subcontractors, and Utilities

• Working closely on a day to day basis with the planners of the contractor to monitor and/or amend the Contractor’s baseline programme of Work

• Providing progress reports, graphs and critical path analysis for the monthly and weekly progress reports to the Project Management Consultant (PMC)

• Reporting to the Project Lead any risks, opportunities and any mitigation strategies to maintain the project completion date

• Reviewing actual progress against the construction programme and preparing and reporting to the Project Lead accordingly

• Advising the Project Lead of any early warnings in regard to potential delay events

• Attending site and convening workshops with the site supervision team as necessary to get snapshots in time and keeping an update on actual progress on site

• Conducting independent site visits to evaluate the contractor’s site progress against his programme and reporting to the Project Lead accordingly

• Providing support to the Cost Control Team in understanding the programme risks and opportunities of potential additional works and variation proposals

• Maintaining records of monitoring of the programme to enable input and support to the Project Lead and Cost Control Team to evaluate any related Contractor claims and variations as considered necessary

• Providing assistance to the PMC during negotiations, arbitration, or any other forms of dispute resolution

• Review claims (Time Impact Analysis / Window/APAB), defense, and review of particulars and chronology of events

• Investigate potential delay events and determine the presence of concurrent delay

• Review and prepare prospective and retrospective delay analysis

• Present & discuss EoT claims with knowledge of contract mechanisms undefined

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.

• Minimum of 15 years of post-graduate experience in project planning, scheduling, and progress monitoring for building projects.