Senior Planning Engineer

Senior Planning Engineer (Contractual role)

Dar, the founding member of the Sidara group, is an international multidisciplinary consulting organization specializing in engineering, architecture, planning, environment, project management, facilities management, and economics. Sidara operates in 60 countries with 20,500 professionals, Dar connects people, places, and communities through innovative solutions to the world's most complex challenges. We deliver projects from inception through completion, embracing challenges to empower communities worldwide.

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• Prepare schedule data for proposals or contract negotiations and check that the correct scope of work is reflected on assigned schedules.
• Review planning and scheduling of work to ensure activities are effectively planned, resourced, and completed.
• Develop specific project codes of accounts and work breakdown structures, and recommend appropriate modifications and revisions for new work items assigned.
• Check and review the most appropriate method and sequence of construction operations prepared by the Planning Engineer for a particular project, in conjunction with the Project Manager.
• Establish and implement methods for determining activity durations within assigned disciplines or specialties.
• Determine critical‑path activities for assigned discipline or specialties and identify significant activities supporting inter‑discipline requirements and identify critical path for discipline or specialty work activities.
• Review schedule data, identify and acquire information needed to complete work logics to interface between assigned disciplines, specialties and/or projects.
• Identify, analyze and monitor schedule deviations for assigned disciplines or specialties including contractor submittals and recommend corrective action/work‑around solutions for project considerations.
• Develop and write the schedule commentary that appears in the monthly progress and similar reports. Identify and report activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule and prepare and present the Critical Items Action Report.
• Prepare and develop the master schedule for construction projects and the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for each project.
• Perform critical path analysis and identify areas of concern.
• Perform any other jobs as may be assigned by the superiors.

• Minimum 15 years of experience with Bachelor’s degrees in civil engineering or similar.
• Relevant experience in project control/planning process, and contract administration obtained through wide exposure to major projects like building, infrastructure and more.
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Planning and project management skills.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Strategy/Planning

Construction, Civil Engineering, and Engineering Services