Senior Planning Manager M3

About the role

Mace is recruiting a Senior Planning Manager for a large-scale masterplanned development in Dubai featuring villas, apartments and a central park. The company provides PMO services to support planning and coordinated delivery, and you will lead planning and scheduling across allocated projects and tenders to support safe, timely and profitable delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Champion safety first, wellbeing and inclusive behaviours across project delivery.
• Develop and maintain integrated programmes from initial brief through design, procurement and construction.
• Monitor progress against agreed milestones, analyse critical-path impacts and identify programme risks and recovery actions.
• Review contractor and consultant schedules, coordinating dependencies and interfaces across project teams.
• Apply consistent scheduling methods, tools and earned value management (EVM) to track programme performance.
• Present clear programme reports, forecasts and corrective recommendations to clients and project stakeholders.
• Lead and develop the planning team, ensuring accurate schedules, quality deliverables and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with project teams to identify carbon-reduction opportunities and support the net zero transition through planning and delivery.

Required profile

• Degree-qualified in construction, engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive multidisciplinary planning experience.
• Strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills.

Required skills

• Expert scheduling software knowledge.
• Earned value management (EVM).

The role is listed as on-site; the company is open to discussing part-time, flexible and hybrid working options where suitable.