Planning Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Planning Engineer to join our PMO team and support the planning and project controls requirements of multidisciplinary architectural and engineering consultancy projects. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining project programmes, monitoring progress, forecasting resources and completion dates, and supporting project teams with schedule analysis and reporting from concept design through detailed design, authority approvals, tender, IFC delivery, and construction-stage support. Key Responsibilities • Develop, maintain, and update integrated project programmes using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project. • Prepare baseline schedules, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), milestones, deliverable registers, calendars, and progress measurement systems. • Coordinate programme activities across Architecture, Structural, MEP, Infrastructure, Landscape, BIM, and other specialist disciplines. • Monitor design deliverables, internal reviews, client decisions, authority submissions, tender activities, and construction-stage requirements. • Track actual progress against approved programmes and update forecast completion dates. • Prepare weekly progress updates, look-ahead schedules, and monthly planning reports. • Monitor critical path, float, programme variance, constraints, risks, and corrective actions. • Forecast project resource requirements and staff hours and identify potential resource conflicts across concurrent projects. • Monitor planned versus actual hours and support project managers with project performance and recovery planning. • Assess the programme impact of scope changes, delayed information, client comments, authority delays, and design revisions. • Carry out schedule-risk, delay, and impact analysis and support extension-of-time and claims assessments where required. • Develop mitigation, recovery, and acceleration plans in coordination with project and discipline teams. • Review contractor and subconsultant programmes and progress updates. • Prepare progress S-curves, milestone trackers, KPI reports, dashboards, and management reports. • Support tenders and fee proposals through the preparation of project programmes, resource estimates, delivery assumptions, and milestone strategies. • Participate in planning and progress meetings and coordinate programme requirements with internal teams, clients, consultants, and contractors. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related discipline. • Required Experience • Relevant professional experience in planning and scheduling within architectural, engineering, construction, or project management environments. • Experience in a multidisciplinary architectural or engineering consultancy is highly preferred. • Experience planning projects from concept and detailed design through authority approvals, tender, IFC delivery, and construction-stage support. • Experience coordinating multiple disciplines, design interfaces, BIM activities, document-control workflows, and project deliverables. • Experience reviewing contractor and subconsultant programmes. • Experience in resource forecasting, progress monitoring, recovery planning, and project reporting. • Bahrain or wider GCC project experience is preferred. Required Skills • Advanced Primavera P6 skills – essential. • Strong Microsoft Project capability. • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills. • Strong understanding of Critical Path Method (CPM), progress measurement, and schedule management. • Resource and staff-hour forecasting. • Schedule-risk, delay, and impact analysis. • Understanding of multidisciplinary design-stage planning and BIM workflows. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Ability to prepare clear progress reports, dashboards, and programme commentary. • Strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills. • Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously. Preferred Skills, Qualifications and Experience • Formal Primavera P6 training or certification. • Power BI or equivalent dashboard reporting experience. • Knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM). • Experience with extension-of-time and claims analysis. • PMI-SP, PMP, AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional, or equivalent certification. • 8 to 10 years experience Show more Show less