Project Vessel Engineer

Global Projects Services; Al Bihouth; On-site; AED 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Abu Dhabi seeks a Project Engineer to manage planning and progress control systems, ensuring project completion aligns with contractual requirements. The role involves developing project schedules, coordinating with teams, and conducting risk management activities throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage planning and progress control system.
• Develop project schedule aligned with commercial needs.
• Ensure effectiveness of planning and progress control system.

Job description

Project Engineer - Al Dhafra, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• Establish and manage an effective planning and progress control system to support the Project Manager's decision-making process, enabling project completion according to internal baselines and contractual requirements.
• Identify deviations from the plan promptly, analyze their impact, estimate time effects, and monitor the effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Create a schedule awareness culture among all project participants.

Tasks

During the commercial phase :

• Develop the project schedule aligned with commercial needs, verify its feasibility and criticality.
• Participate in commercial risk management activities.

At project start-up :

• Implement the Planning and Progress Control System as required by project complexity, risks, and duration, ensuring compliance with the Project Breakdown Structure, Company Standards, and Contract specifications.
• Coordinate with other company functions, discipline leaders, supervisors, and managers to develop activities, assign milestones, and establish constraints through logic networks.
• Prepare baseline documents and communicate planning and scheduling requirements clearly to responsible teams.
• Issue relevant reports, planning & scheduling procedures, progress measurement procedures, and risk management plans for verification.
• Organize risk management activities, including initial brainstorming and qualitative/quantitative risk assessments.
• Conduct schedule risk analysis for highly critical projects.

During project execution :

• Ensure the effectiveness of the planning and progress control system, monitor progress, and ensure proper information flow across all project phases.
• Update schedules with actual data, evaluate forecasts, and monitor deviations, implementing corrective actions as needed.
• Maintain risk management processes through regular meetings and feedback verification.
• Record significant events such as contractual claims, productivity, deliverables, and materials status, utilizing company and partner IT systems.
• Create and maintain 90-day look-ahead schedules, identify adverse trends, and alert project management for corrective actions; generate weekly and monthly reports.
• Assist in preparing project status reports and participate in coordination meetings.
• Support contract change and claims processes with time impact analysis.

At project closure :

• Assist in preparing the project close-out report and provide schedule and productivity feedback to the Project Control and Commercial Departments.