Senior Planning Engineer - Infra & Marine

• Legal Entity: AECOM MIDDLE EAST LIMITED ABU DHABI
• Business Line:
  Transportation
• Work Location Model:
  On-Site
• Operating Group:
  International
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  AE
  - Abu Dhabi, UAE
  - Site
  - Interna

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We are looking for an experienced Senior Planning Engineer to support our infrastructure and marine works projects in Abu Dhabi.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, review, and monitor baseline, detailed, recovery, and updated project programmes for infrastructure and marine works.
• Review Contractor programmes and ensure activities, logic, durations, resources, and project interfaces are properly reflected.
• Monitor planned versus actual progress and identify delays, critical activities, and programme risks.
• Prepare and review weekly, monthly, and look-ahead programmes and progress reports.
• Analyse the critical path and provide recommendations for mitigation and recovery measures.
• Review Contractor progress updates and verify reported progress against actual site activities.
• Coordinate with engineering, construction, commercial, and site teams to ensure accurate progress reporting.
• Monitor infrastructure activities including roads, utilities, earthworks, structures, and associated works.
• Monitor marine activities including reclamation, dredging, rock placement, marine edge protection, revetments, and marine structures.
• Monitor key milestones, design submissions, approvals, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Review delay events, Extension of Time (EOT) submissions, delay analysis, and Time Impact Analysis where required.
• Attend progress and coordination meetings and provide planning updates.
• Support the Project Manager in identifying programme risks and developing mitigation and recovery measures.
• Review Contractor resource requirements and productivity against the approved programme.
• Maintain accurate planning records and ensure programme updates are supported by reliable site information.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience in planning and project controls for major infrastructure and marine works.
• Strong experience with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
• Good knowledge of construction planning, scheduling, progress measurement, critical path analysis, and delay analysis.
• Experience in reviewing EOT submissions, delay analysis, and Time Impact Analysis.
• Good understanding of infrastructure and marine construction activities, sequencing, and project interfaces.
• UAE experience on major infrastructure and marine projects is preferred.
• Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and reporting skills.

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