Planning Engineer: Primavera P6 & CPM Expert

MSCEB; Manama; On-site; BHD 18,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

MSCEB is seeking an experienced Planning Engineer to join its PMO team in Manama to support planning and project controls for multidisciplinary architectural and engineering projects.

You will develop and maintain project programmes from concept design through construction, forecast resources, monitor progress, and deliver schedule analyses and reports to project teams and clients, ensuring on-time completion and efficient performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update integrated project programmes using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Prepare baseline schedules, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), milestones, deliverable registers, calendars, and progress measurement systems.
• Coordinate programme activities across Architecture, Structural, MEP, Infrastructure, Landscape, BIM, and other specialist disciplines.
• Monitor design deliverables, internal reviews, client decisions, authority submissions, tender activities, and construction-stage requirements.
• Track actual progress against approved programmes and update forecast completion dates.
• Prepare weekly progress updates, look-ahead schedules, and monthly planning reports.
• Monitor critical path, float, programme variance, constraints, risks, and corrective actions.
• Forecast project resource requirements and staff hours and identify potential resource conflicts across concurrent projects.
• Monitor planned versus actual hours and support project managers with project performance and recovery planning.
• Assess the programme impact of scope changes, delayed information, client comments, authority delays, and design revisions.
• Carry out schedule-risk, delay, and impact analysis and support extension-of-time and claims assessments where required.
• Develop mitigation, recovery, and acceleration plans in coordination with project and discipline teams.
• Review contractor and subconsultant programmes and progress updates.
• Prepare progress S-curves, milestone trackers, KPI reports, dashboards, and management reports.
• Support tenders and fee proposals through the preparation of project programmes, resource estimates, delivery assumptions, and milestone strategies.
• Participate in planning and progress meetings and coordinate programme requirements with internal teams, clients, consultants, and contractors.

Skills

CPM & scheduling

Advanced Excel

Stakeholder coordination

Resource forecasting

Analytical problem solving

Project reporting

Communication skills

Multi-disciplinary coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Architecture/Construction Management

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

BIM workflows

Job description

MSCEB is seeking an experienced Planning Engineer to join its PMO team in Manama to support planning and project controls for multidisciplinary architectural and engineering projects.

You will develop and maintain project programmes from concept design through construction, forecast resources, monitor progress, and deliver schedule analyses and reports to project teams and clients, ensuring on-time completion and efficient performance.