Senior Planner - Design & Construction Scheduling (UAE)

WSP; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. in the UAE seeks a Senior Planner with 10+ years of planning and scheduling experience to support design projects in the Properties & Buildings sector.

You will develop integrated schedules, monitor progress, assess risks, and support timely delivery across bid and delivery stages. The role requires strong skills in Primavera P6, MS Project, Excel, and stakeholder engagement across time zones, with a proven ability to mentor junior planners and coordinate across multidisciplinary

Qualifications

• 10+ years of planning and scheduling experience on building design projects.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including dashboards and pivot tables.
• Experience developing resource- and cost-loaded schedules.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a planning and project controls plan based on contractual requirements, defining scheduling, progress measurement, reporting, change control, and monitoring procedures.
• Develop, maintain, and update integrated design schedules, including WBS, baseline schedules, milestones, and design deliverables.
• Coordinate with program management and multidisciplinary delivery teams to capture inputs and align schedules across bid and delivery stages.
• Analyze schedule performance, interdependencies, variances, floats, constraints, and critical paths; identify risks and corrective actions.
• Coordinate with resource managers to develop resource plans and optimize allocation across multiple design projects.
• Facilitate planning sessions with leadership to agree sequencing, milestones, and priorities.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Project controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Project

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Visio

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

WSP Global Inc. in the UAE seeks a Senior Planner with 10+ years of planning and scheduling experience to support design projects in the Properties & Buildings sector.

You will develop integrated schedules, monitor progress, assess risks, and support timely delivery across bid and delivery stages. The role requires strong skills in Primavera P6, MS Project, Excel, and stakeholder engagement across time zones, with a proven ability to mentor junior planners and coordinate across multidisciplinary