Career Opportunities

Planning Engineer 

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Contact Email: k.mahear@penspen.com

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field
  • Years and Type of Experience

  • Extensive experience in a planning role
  • Previous experience ina consulting role
  • Technical Knowledge

  • Must be able to provide planning services in support of engineering activities. 
  • Ability to develop in conjunction with project engineers and design engineers, activity plans for projects.
  • Ability to build overall plans and schedules for front-end designs, schedule containment estimates for execution phase of projects.
  • Resource optimization and prioritization in conjunction with project engineers.
  • Be able to identify plan delays and propose plans to mitigate
  • Personal Competencies

  • Report writing skills.
  • Resourceful in researching for technical knowledge.
  • Must possess strong interpersonal skills to be able to coordinate in a multi disciplinary environment.
  • Ability to work closely with project engineers for progress reporting and subsequent amendments to plans and schedules.
  • Job Responsibilities

  • Prepare tender planning programmes and schedules.
  • Establish a scheduling system in accordance with the requirements of the project.
  • Prepare project schedules.
  • Identify current and anticipated critical target dates and initiate corrective action.
  • Plan, analyse and review all changes, variations and their impact on milestones, overall schedule and discuss the results with parties involved prior to implementing the schedule.
  • Attend meetings on project planning and scheduling progress.
  • Prepare and maintain documentation on planning and scheduling progress.
  • Work closely with the engineering department to identify progress slippages and constraints.
  • Software Knowledge

  • Primavera and/or Microsoft Projects
  • MS Office
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