Senior Planning Engineer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 04/28/2026

• Integrates engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning schedules into the overall project schedule and manages the schedule interface with internal partners.
• Reviews tender documents including detailed review of the Instructions to tenders, scope of work, key contract dates, project milestones.
• Establishes the bid schedule and communicates with various departments e.g., Engineering, Procurement & Other department to get proposal inputs.
• Generates schedule on project management software Primavera (P3.1, P6.2) & Microsoft Project for different kind of Projects for bid proposal up to Level-5 e.g., Onshore & Cross-Country pipeline, offshore platform, refinery expansion, material handling, power plant and tankage.
• Understands the project execution philosophy and the work breakdown structure, along with the detailed functional schedule (Engineering Procurement, Construction & Commissioning).
• Identifies & explores objective of the Projects & submits all planning/project control related technical document required in the Project.
• Resources planning & its maximum utilization, adheres project monitoring-reviewing, utilizes to the best capacity of available manpower, machinery, materials within the project.
• Prepares & tracks the project master schedule and summary level curves and manpower histogram.
• Identifies, monitors & streamlines the critical paths running through the project master schedule and individual contracts.
• Submits weekly/monthly reports generation including ‘S’-curves for client & Management review.
• Prepares, reviews & publishes MIS & monthly/weekly/daily reports on operational activities.
• Monitors the use of "Progress Monitoring Tools" such as "S – Curve".
• Identifies the changing priorities as per the project requirements and updates the same in schedules.
• Identifies the critical areas like procurement status, delivery dates, shop drawings approval, and material approvals & informs the management to eliminate the delays in the project.
• Generates the micro-schedules for the site execution team from the main/target programs and prepares the recovery schedules to catch-up the lags in the project.
• Tracks and reports schedule performance with an integrated view of hours.
• Performs other duties assigned by immediate superior as & when required.

• 10 years’ experience in UAE with a similar position on Infrastructure projects.
• Excellent knowledge in specialized planning & scheduling software utilization (Primavera and/or MS Project).
• Full awareness and implementation of the requirements of the quality management system and the environmental management system.
• Good knowledge of engineering/design scope, job working instruction / procedures, good project control practices in planning and scheduling and overall awareness of projects.
• Ability to work in a highly competitive market with extremely challenging targets and timelines.