Planning Engineer

About the role

Bainona Engineering Consultancy is looking for an experienced Planning Engineer to monitor construction programmes, validate progress and provide schedule analysis and reporting from the consultant's perspective.

Key responsibilities

• Review and analyse the contractor's baseline construction programme and updates, offering recommendations to project management.
• Monitor actual progress against the approved programme, identifying slippage, critical‑path impacts and milestone risks.
• Review look‑ahead schedules, recovery programmes, manpower histograms, resource schedules and S‑curves.
• Conduct regular site verification to validate reported progress percentages and activity status.
• Coordinate with civil, architectural, MEP, QS and other disciplines to ensure accurate progress data and forecasting.
• Analyse schedule implications of variations, changes, instructions and key project events.
• Support preparation and evaluation of Extension of Time claims and delay analyses in coordination with the Project Manager and QS.
• Identify schedule risks and recommend mitigation, acceleration or recovery measures.
• Maintain planning records, programme logs and schedule correspondence for project controls and claims support.
• Participate in progress and coordination meetings, providing clear planning inputs, trends and recommendations.
• Prepare periodic progress, planning and delay‑analysis reports for the Project Manager / Client.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline.
• Minimum 12 years of relevant professional experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in the GCC and 5 years with an engineering consultancy in construction supervision.
• Relevant experience on residential building projects.
• Working knowledge of Abu Dhabi codes and regulations.

Required skills

• Primavera P6
• Construction programme analysis
• Abu Dhabi codes and regulations