Planning Engineer Dubai (Mandarin Speaking)

Client of Guildhall; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Live Dubai project

Exposure to GCC infrastructure project

Role in regional delivery team

Market-rate salary

Job summary

Guildhall is recruiting a Planning Engineer for a major infrastructure project in Dubai. You will own the Primavera P6 schedule for live work packages, monitor progress against baseline, and provide clear, honest reports to site leadership.

You will engage with an international project team, coordinate with partners, and contribute to delay analysis, recovery planning and resource forecasting. This is a hands-on role on a high-profile GCC infrastructure mandate.

Qualifications

• 5 years planning or scheduling experience on infrastructure or main contractor projects.
• Hands-on Primavera P6 skills: building schedules, resource loading, updates and delay analysis.
• Fluent in a second language relevant to the project’s international team, plus clear working English.
• UAE construction project experience, ideally on large civil or transport works.
• Strong grasp of construction sequencing, critical path method and progress tracking.

Responsibilities

• Owns the Primavera P6 schedule across live packages on a major infrastructure project.
• Track progress against baseline, flag delays and update the critical path.
• Produce weekly and monthly progress reports for management and site leadership.
• Coordinate between the main contractor’s site teams and international project partners on scheduling.
• Support delay analysis, recovery planning and resource forecasting across the programme.

Skills

Primavera P6

Scheduling

Project controls

English proficiency

Second language (Arabic/other)

Job description

About the Role

Guildhall is running a search for an international main contractor delivering infrastructure projects in the region currently growing its Dubai team. This Planning Engineer will own the Primavera P6 schedule for live packages, track progress against baseline, and be the person site leadership turns to for an honest read on the critical path. The mandate is live and moving now with an international project team that values clear reporting in English. It s a hands‑on controls seat on one of the region s larger active infrastructure builds, not a back‑office planning function.

Responsibilities

• The role Owns the Primavera P6 schedule across live packages on a major infrastructure project.
• Track progress against baseline, flag delays and update the critical path.
• Produce weekly and monthly progress reports for management and site leadership.
• Coordinate between the main contractor s site teams and international project partners on scheduling.
• Support delay analysis, recovery planning and resource forecasting across the programme.

What you’ll bring

• 5 years planning or scheduling experience on infrastructure or main contractor projects.
• Hands‑on Primavera P6 skills building schedules, resource loading, updates, delay analysis.
• Fluent in a second language relevant to the project s international team, plus clear working English.
• UAE construction project experience, ideally on large civil or transport works.
• Strong grasp of construction sequencing, critical path method and progress tracking.

What’s on offer

• A seat on a live large-scale infrastructure project in Dubai.
• Direct exposure to main contractor scheduling on a major GCC infrastructure mandate.
• A role within a global EPC contractor’s regional delivery team.
• Salary set according to experience.

Additional Context

• Hiring a Planning Engineer in Dubai: A Planning Engineer on a large infrastructure project in Dubai typically owns the Primavera P6 schedule for one or more work packages, reporting into a Project Controls Manager or Project Director.
• The role sits at the centre of progress reporting, delay tracking and cross-team coordination, making it a visible seat on any live main contractor project.
• On some international project teams, an additional language alongside strong English can be a useful skill.
• Demand for this profile tends to track live construction milestones rather than hiring cycles, so timing often depends on where a project sits in its programme.