Senior Project Planner - Defence & C4ISR

Edge Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family visa

Annual flight tickets

Medical insurance

Education allowances

Tax-free salaries

Job summary

Edge Group in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Specialist Project Planner to own the project schedule, build and maintain detailed plans, and track milestones across multi‑disciplinary projects in defence and emerging technologies.

You will work with Senior Project Managers, engineers, and stakeholders to coordinate tasks, resources and dependencies, ensuring on‑time delivery across the full project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years’ experience in project planning/scheduling in defence or mission-critical environments.
• Advanced Primavera P6 proficiency.
• Knowledge of WBS, critical path, dependencies, and earned value is a plus.
• Strong English communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary, international teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and monitor integrated project schedules.
• Break down work into tasks, durations and dependencies.
• Track progress against milestones and critical path; highlight delays.
• Coordinate with engineering, operations and commercial teams.
• Prepare and present schedule reports, dashboards and what-if scenarios.
• Support change control, resource planning and risk/issue management from a schedule perspective.

Skills

English communication

Analytical skills

Scheduling experience

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Edge Group in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Specialist Project Planner to own the project schedule, build and maintain detailed plans, and track milestones across multi‑disciplinary projects in defence and emerging technologies.

You will work with Senior Project Managers, engineers, and stakeholders to coordinate tasks, resources and dependencies, ensuring on‑time delivery across the full project lifecycle.