Planning Engineer - Infrastructure Projects
Posted date [2026-09-27]
(ID: 52591)
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Job Description and Requirements
Planning Engineer - Infrastructure ProjectsJob Snapshot
Role: Planning Engineer
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Project Management
Experience: 7+ years of relevant experience
Job Type: Full Time
Position Overview
AECOM is seeking an experienced Planning Engineer in Abu Dhabi, UAE to support planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, and reporting for an infrastructure project. The role involves reviewing contractor programmes, monitoring critical path and actual progress, assessing recovery schedules and delay impacts, supporting Extension of Time reviews, and providing reliable schedule information to the project management team and Client.
Job Details
Country: UAE
City: Abu Dhabi
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Project Management
Salary: Not disclosed
Gender: No Preference
Candidate Nationality: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Work Arrangement: On-site
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, review, and monitor the contractor\'s baseline programme, programme updates, and recovery schedules.
- Review contractor programmes for logical links, resource loading, sequencing, project scope alignment, and contractual compliance.
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Compare actual progress with the approved programme and identify delays, critical activities, and potential impacts on project completion.
- Prepare and review weekly and monthly progress reports covering planned versus actual progress, key achievements, critical activities, and upcoming works.
- Verify contractor-reported quantities and progress against actual site conditions.
- Analyze critical path, float, schedule constraints, and programme logic and provide recommendations for mitigating delays.
- Prepare and review 2-week, 3-week, and 4-week look-ahead programmes as required.
- Coordinate with the Resident Engineer, discipline engineers, inspectors, and contractor planning personnel to obtain accurate progress information.
- Review recovery and mitigation programmes and assess whether proposed measures adequately address identified delays.
- Monitor programme interfaces across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and Authority approval activities.
- Identify schedule risks, constraints, and potential delays and communicate them to the project management team.
- Assist with the review of Extension of Time submissions, delay events, and time-related claims, including programme impacts and supporting analysis.
- Review programme updates and time impact analyses submitted by the contractor.
- Maintain project progress dashboards and key performance indicators.
- Prepare progress presentations and communicate planning and schedule status to project management and the Client.
- Participate in progress, planning, and coordination meetings with contractors and project stakeholders.
- Ensure planning and reporting activities comply with project procedures, contractual requirements, and reporting standards.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor\'s Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of relevant planning and scheduling experience on infrastructure and construction projects.
- Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
- Good understanding of baseline programmes, schedule updates, critical path analysis, resource loading, progress measurement, and delay analysis.
- Experience reviewing contractor programmes and progress reports.
- Experience with Extension of Time assessments, delay analysis, recovery programmes, and time impact analysis is preferred.
- UAE infrastructure project experience is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and reporting skills.
- Ability to work effectively with contractors and multidisciplinary project teams.
Planning and Scheduling Scope
The Planning Engineer will provide schedule oversight across the infrastructure project lifecycle, connecting site progress with contractual programme requirements. The position requires detailed analysis of programme logic, critical path, float, resource loading, progress measurement, recovery planning, and schedule risks while maintaining visibility of design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and Authority approval interfaces.
Primavera P6 will be a core planning tool for programme review and schedule analysis, supported by Microsoft Excel for progress monitoring, reporting, dashboards, and performance information.
Recruitment and Onboarding
Newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment. This requirement forms part of AECOM\'s secure recruitment process.
About AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm providing professional services across transportation, water, environment, energy, and buildings. Its teams support public- and private-sector clients throughout the project lifecycle, including advisory, planning, design, engineering, program management, and construction management. AECOM reported revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025 and has a global team of more than 50,000 professionals.
- Prepare and review weekly and monthly progress reports covering planned versus actual progress, key achievements, critical activities, and upcoming works.
- Verify contractor-reported quantities and progress against actual site conditions.
- Analyze critical path, float, schedule constraints, and programme logic and provide recommendations for mitigating delays.
- Prepare and review 2-week, 3-week, and 4-week look-ahead programmes as required.
- Coordinate with the Resident Engineer, discipline engineers, inspectors, and contractor planning personnel to obtain accurate progress information.
- Review recovery and mitigation programmes and assess whether proposed measures adequately address identified delays.
- Monitor programme interfaces across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and Authority approval activities.
- Identify schedule risks, constraints, and potential delays and communicate them to the project management team.
- Assist with the review of Extension of Time submissions, delay events, and time-related claims, including programme impacts and supporting analysis.
- Review programme updates and time impact analyses submitted by the contractor.
- Maintain project progress dashboards and key performance indicators.
- Prepare progress presentations and communicate planning and schedule status to project management and the Client.
- Participate in progress, planning, and coordination meetings with contractors and project stakeholders.
- Ensure planning and reporting activities comply with project procedures, contractual requirements, and reporting standards.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor\'s Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of relevant planning and scheduling experience on infrastructure and construction projects.
- Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
- Good understanding of baseline programmes, schedule updates, critical path analysis, resource loading, progress measurement, and delay analysis.
- Experience reviewing contractor programmes and progress reports.
- Experience with Extension of Time assessments, delay analysis, recovery programmes, and time impact analysis is preferred.
- UAE infrastructure project experience is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and reporting skills.
- Ability to work effectively with contractors and multidisciplinary project teams.
Planning and Scheduling Scope
The Planning Engineer will provide schedule oversight across the infrastructure project lifecycle, connecting site progress with contractual programme requirements. The position requires detailed analysis of programme logic, critical path, float, resource loading, progress measurement, recovery planning, and schedule risks while maintaining visibility of design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and Authority approval interfaces.
Primavera P6 will be a core planning tool for programme review and schedule analysis, supported by Microsoft Excel for progress monitoring, reporting, dashboards, and performance information.
Recruitment and Onboarding
Newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment. This requirement forms part of AECOM\'s secure recruitment process.
About AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm providing professional services across transportation, water, environment, energy, and buildings. Its teams support public- and private-sector clients throughout the project lifecycle, including advisory, planning, design, engineering, program management, and construction management. AECOM reported revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025 and has a global team of more than 50,000 professionals.
