Planning Engineer

Leo A Daly & Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join LEO A DALY as a Project Manager, where you will play a critical role in overseeing construction projects. Responsibilities include monitoring progress, coordinating schedules, and ensuring compliance with timelines. If you're a licensed Professional Engineer with a passion for design, this opportunity allows you to contribute to innovative and sustainable projects, collaborating with diverse teams to transform the built environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management and construction progress monitoring.
• Strong analytical skills for reviewing contractors' schedules and claims.

Responsibilities

• Monitor construction progress and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare weekly/monthly progress reports and attend review meetings.
• Coordinate with contractors to align financial and scheduling aspects.

Skills

Proficient with MS Office

Education

Licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE)

Job description

Overview

LEO A DALY is a leader in the design of the built environment, dedicated to transforming the human experience through the power of design. For more than 100 years, we've created places that inspire wonder, connect communities, and enable great things. Our creative teams combine planning, architecture, engineering, interiors, and program management to deliver truly integrated design.

We are a diverse collection of inventive problem solvers, united by a passion for great design.

We own the impact of our work socially, economically, and environmentally. In collaboration with our clients and each other, we create innovative, thoughtful, and sustainable solutions to the urgent challenges that face our world.

Click WHO WE ARE to learn more about us!

Responsibilities

• Monitor construction progress regularly using scheduling software and actual feedback data.
• Review and assess contractors' baseline programs, revised schedules, progress updates, and look-ahead schedules.
• Identify variances between scheduled and actual progress; recommend corrective actions and mitigation strategies.
• Require and review contractors' revised programs when progress is not satisfactory or falls behind schedule.
• Provide technical input and analysis on Extension of Time (EOT) claims, concurrent delays, and Time Impact Analysis (TIA).
• Verify contractors' recovery plans, acceleration proposals, and evaluate their effectiveness to meet project timelines.
• Assist in identifying project obstacles or risks and propose solutions to prevent delays.
• Review and ensure accuracy of contractors' resource-loaded, cost-loaded, and man-hour schedules.
• Coordinate with contractor QS to align progress certification with actual site progress.
• Monitor contractors' cash flow forecasts and activity-value schedules to assess financial planning and progress measurement.
• Make weekly meetings and reports to QS head/management.
• Support the development and agreement of Progress Measurement Systems (PMS) and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Attend and participate in progress review meetings with stakeholders (Employer, Consultants, Contractors, Authorities) and document minutes.
• Prepare weekly/monthly progress reports and executive summaries with program analysis and recommendations.
• Maintain and update project control logs for critical issues, submittals, RFIs, variations, NCRs, and site instructions linking to scheduling impact.
• Provide planning input for commissioning requirements, inspections, and test schedules.
• Ensure proper record-keeping of documents relevant to project delays and planning issues.
• Issue notices for contractor delays, slow performance, and non-compliance with the program.
• Conduct delay analysis using recognized methodologies (e.g., windows analysis, TIA) and demonstrate contractor responsibility for delays.
• Prepare planning presentations, reports, and visuals for client and management meetings.
• Collaborate with contractors and clients to resolve planning and scheduling conflicts efficiently.
• Prepare monthly progress reports based on work carried out by the contractor, highlighting problems, obstacles, shortages, and recommendations.

Qualifications

• Proficient with MS Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE).

Why Join LEO A DALY

At LEO A DALY, you will become part of a collaborative design culture and do work that matters. As an integrated design practice, we believe that a diversity of perspectives generates better solutions. We trust and support each other, ask hard questions, and solve complex problems. Guided by a spirit of inquiry, we design for people at every scale, creating spaces that elevate individuals, their communities, and the institutions that serve them. Join LEO A DALY — help us transform the world.

EEO Information

LEO A DALY LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process. Applicants requiring accommodations may contact our Human Resources Department by phone or email. For more information about your rights under the law, see 'Know Your Rights'.