Senior Planning Engineer

Tanqeeb; Doha; On-site; QAR 240,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Life insurance

Medical insurance

Annual flight contribution

Housing allowances

Employee Wellbeing Program

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis seeks an experienced Planning Engineer to lead scheduling for large-scale, fast-track data centre projects in Doha. The role covers baseline reviews, risk analysis, and progress reporting to ensure on-time delivery with clients, contractors, and stakeholders.

The candidate will develop dashboards, monitor progress, and support EOT assessments, working closely with resident engineers and project teams across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent.
• 12+ years of experience in planning and scheduling for large-scale projects.
• Experience with data centre, MEP-intensive or fast-track projects preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review baseline schedules for compliance with contract requirements.
• Monitor progress against approved baselines and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare look-ahead schedules to support execution and planning.
• Analyze schedule risks, critical paths, constraints, and impacts on delivery.
• Conduct delay analysis and support EOT assessments and claims.

Skills

Schedule optimization

Progress tracking

Data centre experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Seeking an experienced Planning Engineer / Senior Planning Engineer with 12+ years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and controls for large-scale construction projects, including mission-critical data center developments. The role will be responsible for schedule management, progress monitoring, delay analysis, reporting, and providing planning support to ensure successful project delivery in collaboration with clients, contractors, and project stakeholders.

Job description

Job DescriptionOverview

Seeking an experienced Planning Engineer / Senior Planning Engineer with 12+ years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and controls for large-scale construction projects, including mission-critical data center developments. The role will be responsible for schedule management, progress monitoring, delay analysis, reporting, and providing planning support to ensure successful project delivery in collaboration with clients, contractors, and project stakeholders.

Your role

• Review and assess contractors' baseline schedules for compliance with contract requirements, project milestones, and construction sequencing.
• Monitor project progress and performance against approved baseline programmes and recommend corrective actions as required.
• Prepare and review short-term and long-term look-ahead schedules to support project execution and resource planning.
• Analyze schedule risks, critical paths, constraints, and potential impacts on project delivery.
• Conduct delay analysis and provide support for Extension of Time (EOT) assessments and claims evaluation.
• Review and validate contractor progress reports, recovery plans, and revised schedules.
• Develop project dashboards, KPI reports, earned value metrics, and schedule performance analyses.
• Coordinate with resident engineers, construction managers, contractors, and client representatives to collect and validate progress data.
• Monitor engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning activities to ensure alignment with project schedules.
• Identify schedule deviations and proactively recommend mitigation and acceleration strategies.
• Support project controls, risk management, forecasting, and change management processes.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports with clear executive summaries and schedule analysis.
• Participate in project review meetings, progress meetings, and stakeholder workshops.
• Ensure planning and reporting activities comply with contractual requirements, consultant procedures, and industry best practices.
• Review schedule impacts associated with design changes, variations, procurement issues, and site constraints.
• Assist in project closeout planning, testing and commissioning schedules, and handover milestones.

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent. Primavera P6 capability/certification preferred.
• Data Center Experience [at least 1 project is delivered in the last 5 years]
• 12+ years of experience.
• Baseline programme review, progress monitoring, look-ahead schedules, delay analysis, EOT support, progress dashboards and reporting; data centre, MEP-intensive or fast-track project experience preferred.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation & housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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