Summary

• Monitor and oversee planning activities across infrastructure projects.
• Provide support when needed & report on planning activities from project initiation to close-out.

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 8+ years of professional experience in project planning, scheduling and monitoring, within a reputed regional developer/consultancy/contractor.
• Project Management Professional and good knowledge of the real estate market.
• Familiar with international standards used in local and international projects.
• Knowledge in time-related claims/variations and FIDIC.
• Proficiency in Primavera.

Duties

• Develop and manage company-wide planning/scheduling best practices and framework in accordance with local and national rules and regulations, and ensure proper implementation.
• Prepare and standardize planning and scheduling methodologies, tools, and best practices to ensure consistency and high-quality deliverables.
• Lead and monitor the planning process both internally and externally across projects.
• Manage planning and scheduling implementation of projects in scope.
• Standardize support in project budgeting process, annual forecasts, department budgeting and other such activities, including cost control analyses in terms of project performances.
• Liaise, contribute and coordinate with different functional departments in a timely fashion to meet department’s objectives.
• Ensure that planning-related guidelines, terms and conditions (e.g., Earned Value Management) are included in RFP packages and evaluated properly during tender evaluation.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of project master program, to the level of details deemed appropriate, to allow for proper monitor and control of project performance.
• Ensure monthly updates provided by contractors/consultants/vendors are in line with the baseline and advise of any slippages and corrective measures to keep the project on track
• Oversee administration of contracts and provide scheduling and time-frame expertise.
• Provide high level technical assistance and evaluation of contractors/consultants change requests, variation orders, EOTs and claims assessment and resolution.
• Oversee the consultants/contractors’ work schedules in accordance with the relevant project contract conditions.
• Report contractual issues on planning to Project Management and recommend necessary actions to be taken and evaluate time related claims.
• Monitor and control overall project performance from time and cost perspective as per project contracts’ terms and conditions.
• Oversee the earned value analysis on monthly basis.
• Oversee cash-flow and payment schedule analysis and provide data inputs into financial models as needed.
• Oversee monthly reports throughout the various project stages.