Planning Manager - Data Centre

Currie & Brown; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 268,000 - 469,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown is seeking a Planning Manager for a large-scale Data Centre project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. You will support project leaders, coordinate multi-discipline planning, and drive progress reporting.

The role requires advanced Primavera P6 use, MSP certification, and a decade of delivery experience, preferably in the Middle East. Strong writing, client-facing skills and a proactive, collaborative approach are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of technical delivery experience in villas and townhouses projects.
• Experience working on high-rise projects, fit-outs, testing and commissioning and tenancy co-ordination.
• Post-contract experience in handover and final accounts.
• Middle East experience essential.
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills.
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute.
• A team player with a 'can-do' attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible.

Responsibilities

• Developing an overall target programme with multiple stakeholder inputs and activities including design, procurement, permitting and approvals, construction, testing, commissioning, handover, across multiple workstreams
• Preparing 'what-if' scenarios
• Reviewing design consultants' and contractors' baseline programmes
• Monitoring and reporting all programme-related activities
• Reviewing resource and cost loaded baseline programmes
• Providing assessment of all sequencing and durations of construction activities
• Monitoring the planning and project controlling works for conformance with project procedures
• Reviewing contractors' lookahead schedules and weekly reports
• Preparing and finalising weekly and monthly progress report submissions to the client
• Liaising and co-ordinating with the contractor and the client
• Attending all necessary meetings with the contractor and the client
• Reviewing and analysing contractor's claims and preparing recommendations reports
• Undertaking Primavera schedule tracking for progress updates

Skills

Primavera P6

MSP

Education

BSc in construction management, engineering, architecture, planning, management information system or equivalent

APM/CIOB/PMP accreditation

Job description

Currie & Brown is looking to recruit Planning Manager for a large scale Data Centre project in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Responsibilities will include:

• Developing an overall target programme with multiple stakeholder inputs and activities including design, procurement, permitting and approvals, construction, testing, commissioning, handover, across multiple workstreams
• Preparing 'what-if' scenarios
• Reviewing design consultants' and contractors' baseline programmes
• Monitoring and reporting all programme-related activities
• Reviewing resource and cost loaded baseline programmes
• Providing assessment of all sequencing and durations of construction activities
• Monitoring the planning and project controlling works for conformance with project procedures
• Reviewing contractors' lookahead schedules and weekly reports
• Preparing and finalising weekly and monthly progress report submissions to the client
• Liaising and co-ordinating with the contractor and the client
• Attending all necessary meetings with the contractor and the client
• Reviewing and analysing contractor's claims and preparing recommendations reports
• Undertaking Primavera schedule tracking for progress updates

Requirements:

• BSc in construction management, engineering, architecture, planning, management information system or equivalent
• Strong experience using Primavera (P6) certification and MSP
• A minimum of ten years' technical delivery experience in villas and townhouses projects an advantage
• Accredited to a relevant professional body such as APM, CIOB or PMP
• Experience working on high-rise projects, fit-outs, testing and commissioning and tenancy co-ordination
• Post-contract experience in handover and final accounts
• Middle East experience essential
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a 'can-do' attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible

Our corporate values

At Currie & Brown, we know that when it comes to a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from. That's why we take a collaborative, open-door approach to running our business. Our people, from apprentices to senior management, make our company what it is. Everyone in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced, contributes to our success in their own way, and we have fun doing it.

Unlike other companies, we focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments. We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people. Whether it's the desire to work internationally, the urge to develop, or even the curiosity to work in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage, offering guidance, support and the structure to achieve. That's why so many of us have been building successful careers here for so long.

With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company. Our people are able to make quick and flexible decisions, and work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

This mix of our scale and size, our partnerships and our people makes us a true industry leader around the world.