Senior Planning & Scheduling Engineer

Basatin Landscaping SPLLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 201,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Basatin Landscaping SPLLC is seeking a Planning Engineer to assist in developing and leading project schedules, while monitoring progress for timely and cost‑effective delivery. The role provides expert planning, forecasting, and risk analysis to support decision‑making and contractual compliance.

You will mentor junior staff and contribute to continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, and methodologies, supporting the organization’s performance and long‑term growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4–6 years of progressive experience in project planning and scheduling within the construction, infrastructure, facilities management, or engineering sectors.
• Demonstrated track record of managing schedules on large‑scale, multi‑disciplinary projects with complex timelines, resource demands, and contractual requirements.

Responsibilities

• Assist Sr. Planners in baseline development.
• Develop work breakdown structures (WBS), activity logic, calendars, and durations.
• Prepare look-ahead schedules (2–4 weeks) aligned with site execution.
• Update programmes based on actual site progress.
• Collect progress data from Site engineers, Construction managers, Subcontractors.
• Measure and update physical progress (% complete) and critical path activities.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports.
• Prepare progress dashboards, S-curves, and histograms.
• Coordinate with Construction, Engineering and Procurement teams.
• Identify schedule slippages and notify senior staff.
• Maintain planning logs, schedule narratives and progress backup documents.
• Ensure consistency between planner reports and site status.
• Attend internal coordination meetings; support client/consultant meetings.
• Provide planning inputs for MOMs when required.
• Follow project contract requirements and ensure planning deliverables comply with contract conditions, consultant requirements, and client formats and timelines.

Skills

Primavera P6

MS Project

MS Office

Baseline development

Critical path

Resource loading

Risk management

Delay analysis

Claims analysis

Earned value

Leadership

Mentorship

Communication

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

MS Office

Job description

Basatin Landscaping SPLLC is seeking a Planning Engineer to assist in developing and leading project schedules, while monitoring progress for timely and cost‑effective delivery. The role provides expert planning, forecasting, and risk analysis to support decision‑making and contractual compliance.

You will mentor junior staff and contribute to continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, and methodologies, supporting the organization’s performance and long‑term growth.