Senior Planning Engineer

SNC-Lavalin Fayez Engineering; Qatar; On-site; QAR 291,226 - 364,033; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Medical insurance

Annual flight contribution

Transportation & housing allowances

Discretionary bonus program

Employee Wellbeing Program

Job summary

SNC-Lavalin Fayez Engineering in Qatar is seeking a Planning Engineer/Senior Planning Engineer with over 12 years of experience, particularly in project planning for large-scale construction projects like data centres. The role involves managing schedules, analyzing project delays, and ensuring successful delivery through collaboration with clients and contractors.

This position offers rewards such as tax-free salary, medical insurance, and annual bonuses, supported by a team committed to engineering a better future.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and controls.
• At least one data centre project delivered in the last 5 years.
• Experience with MEP-intensive or fast-track projects preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review contractors' baseline schedules for compliance.
• Monitor project progress and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare look-ahead schedules for project execution.
• Analyze schedule risks and critical paths.
• Conduct delay analysis and support for EOT assessments.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Delay analysis

Contract compliance

Data centre experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Construction Management

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Job Description

Overview

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 centre 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 centre experience – at least 1 project 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.

• 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 recognised for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organisation. 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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Worker Type Employee

Job Type Regular

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