Summery:
The Project Planner is responsible for developing, updating, and maintaining time schedules for construction projects to ensure timely and cost-effective project delivery. The role involves coordinating with multidisciplinary teams to reflect accurate progress, anticipate delays, and support decision-making through professional planning tools and techniques.
Job Duties:
- Prepare, develop, and maintain project baseline schedules using Primavera P6 or MS Project.
- Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), define activities, durations, sequences, and resource allocations.
- Coordinate with engineering, procurement, and site teams to gather schedule input.
- Monitor actual progress against planned timelines and update project schedules accordingly.
- Perform delay analysis and recommend recovery and mitigation strategies.
- Issue weekly and monthly schedule updates, look-ahead reports, and highlight risks.
- Support planning input in Extension of Time (EOT) claims and contractual documentation.
- Track progress, manpower, equipment, and material deliveries aligned with schedule.
- Integrate cost and resource loading into schedules when required.
- Liaise with project managers and site engineers to validate progress data.
- Identify and assess scheduling risks and propose corrective measures.
- Maintain documentation of all planning-related changes and approvals.
- Participate in progress meetings and present schedule status to internal/external stakeholders.
- Assist in the preparation of project control reports for internal and client use.
Ensure planning compliance with contract requirements and company procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Construction Management, or a related field
- (Minimum 3–5 years of hands-on experience in project scheduling for construction projects, preferably EPC or large-scale building projects.
- Proven experience in developing and maintaining schedules using Primavera P6.
- Experience with delay analysis, EOT, and contractual support is preferred.