Junior Planning Engineer

Kone México; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

KONE is seeking a Junior Planning Engineer in Dubai to design, develop, and maintain project plans across tender, execution, and closeout stages. You will monitor progress, highlight resource and schedule risks, and support the project team with critical path and EOT considerations.

Responsibilities include creating schedules, integrating KONE scope with master plans, performing risk analysis, and maintaining reporting dashboards for stakeholders. A fixed-term one-year contract applies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in project planning, scheduling and claims management.
• Experience with top construction or elevator-industry companies.
• Proven Exten­sion of Time (EOT) claim management experience preferred.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, MS Project and other PM tools.
• Strong dashboards, progress tracking and reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Supports sales by creating project schedules and related materials for estimates and proposals.
• Designs and maintains cost- and resource-loaded schedules for projects in execution.
• Interacts with customers to align schedules with KONE scope milestones.
• Checks alignment between KONE Supply Line and Front Line schedules and suggests actions.
• Assists local Project Manager with critical path, acceleration and gap analyses.
• Supports project performance analysis and forecasting using Critical Path and Earned Value.
• Maintains records of schedule development throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensures bespoke customer reports and contractual planning obligations are met.
• Provides support on EOT claims and Cause and Effect scheduling; assists risk analysis.

Skills

Primavera P6

MS Project

Scheduling

Dashboarding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Certified as a Top Employer in the UAE, Qatar, KSA, and Oman, KONE is committed to creating a better workplace, demonstrated through our excellent people practices. We prioritize fostering a positive work culture that encourages collaboration, diversity, growth, and well-being, while maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency.

Junior Planning Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining project plans plus monitoring and reporting project progress against plans. The role proactively highlights resource and time challenges in meeting project requirements. The role is involved from the tender phase (supporting the sales team) to project execution and closeout (supporting the project team).

Key Responsibilities:

• Supports sales function by creating project schedules and related support material for use in KONE estimates and proposals.
• Designs, constructs, and maintains cost—and resource-loaded schedules for projects in execution and pro-actively highlights resource and time challenges in meeting schedule requirements.
• Interacts directly with customers to clearly understand overall project requirements and milestones to integrate construction master schedules with those specific to KONE scope.
• Bridges potential misalignment between KONE Supply Line and Front Line, by actively checking project schedules and identifying and suggesting corrective actions and scheduling opportunities.
• Assists local Project Manager in the development and maintenance of existing schedules performing critical path, acceleration, and gap analysis as required.
• Assists in project performance analysis and forecasting based on Critical Path and Earned Value.
• Maintains accurate records of schedule development throughout the lifetime of the Project.
• Ensures bespoke customer reports and contractual planning obligations are understood and fulfilled.
• Provides support to the Project Team and management about EOT claims and Cause and Effect’ scheduling.
• Assists in project risk analysis.
• Contributes to the development of planning processes and best practices and assists with their implementation and guides, supports, and trains project teams in their application.
• Proactive approach in assisting the project manager on Critical and Near Critical delays; Delay notices; Interim / Final particulars for EOT claim through effective collaboration with the relevant stakeholders

Are you the one?

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and claims management.
• Experience working with at least one of the top 10 to 15 construction companies or within the elevator industry.
• Proven experience in Extension of Time (EOT) claim management and contractual dispute resolution (preferred).
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, MS Project, and other project management tools.
• Strong understanding of construction project dashboards, progress tracking, and reporting.

One-year fixed term contract role.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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At KONE, our purpose is to shape the future of cities. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, we move two billion people every day, making their journeys safe, convenient, and reliable with smart and sustainable People Flow®. In 2025, KONE had annual sales of EUR 11.2 billion, and at the end of the year over 60,000 employees in close to 70 countries. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.