Planning Engineer - Infrastructure Projects
Posted date [2026-10-01]
(ID: 52783)
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Job Description and Requirements
Planning Engineer - Infrastructure ProjectsJob Snapshot
Role: Planning Engineer - Infrastructure Projects
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Project Management
Experience: Relevant planning and scheduling experience
Job Type: Full Time
Position Overview
AECOM is hiring an experienced Planning Engineer to support an infrastructure project team in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The role focuses on programme review, progress monitoring, schedule analysis, contractor reporting, delay assessment, recovery planning, and coordination across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and authority approval activities. The successful candidate will work closely with multidisciplinary project teams and the Contractor to maintain accurate programme information and provide clear schedule updates to project management and the 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, recovery
programmes, and schedule updates.
- Assess programmes for appropriate logic links, resource loading, sequencing, alignment with project scope, and compliance with contractual requirements.
- Monitor actual progress against the approved programme and identify delays, critical activities, constraints, and potential impacts on project completion.
- Prepare and review weekly and monthly progress reports covering planned versus actual progress, key achievements, critical activities, and look-ahead programmes.
- Verify reported quantities and progress against actual site status.
- Analyse critical paths, float, programme logic, and constraints, and recommend measures to mitigate potential delays.
- Prepare and review 2-week, 3-week, and 4-week look-ahead programmes when required.
- Coordinate with the Resident Engineer, discipline engineers, inspectors, and the Contractor\'s planning team to obtain reliable progress information.
- Review recovery and mitigation programmes and evaluate their effectiveness in addressing schedule delays.
- Track design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and authority approval activities, including interfaces between these workstreams.
- Identify programme 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 scheduling updates clearly to project management and the Client.
- Participate in progress, planning, and coordination meetings involving the Contractor and other project stakeholders.
- Ensure planning and reporting activities comply with project procedures, contractual requirements, and applicable reporting standards.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor\'s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Relevant experience in planning and scheduling for infrastructure and construction projects.
- Strong 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, delay analysis, recovery programmes, and time impact analysis is preferred.
- UAE infrastructure project experience is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and reporting capabilities.
- Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary project teams and Contractors.
Planning and Scheduling Expertise
The position requires practical capability in Primavera P6 scheduling, programme monitoring, critical path assessment, progress measurement, resource-loaded schedules, look-ahead planning, delay analysis, recovery programmes, and time impact analysis. Accurate reporting and the ability to interpret Contractor schedule submissions are central to the role.
Working at AECOM
The Planning Engineer will join AECOM\'s Transportation business in a construction-focused career area. The position provides exposure to multidisciplinary infrastructure delivery and coordination with engineering, construction, project management, and Contractor teams.
AECOM states that employees may have access to benefits depending on employment status, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage, paid time off, leave programs, well-being resources, employee assistance, business travel insurance, recognition programs, retirement savings, and an employee stock purchase plan.
Newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
About AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting and professional services firm working across water, environment, energy, transportation, and buildings. Its services span advisory, planning, design, engineering, program management, and construction management for public- and private-sector clients.
- Assess programmes for appropriate logic links, resource loading, sequencing, alignment with project scope, and compliance with contractual requirements.
- Monitor actual progress against the approved programme and identify delays, critical activities, constraints, and potential impacts on project completion.
- Prepare and review weekly and monthly progress reports covering planned versus actual progress, key achievements, critical activities, and look-ahead programmes.
- Verify reported quantities and progress against actual site status.
- Analyse critical paths, float, programme logic, and constraints, and recommend measures to mitigate potential delays.
- Prepare and review 2-week, 3-week, and 4-week look-ahead programmes when required.
- Coordinate with the Resident Engineer, discipline engineers, inspectors, and the Contractor\'s planning team to obtain reliable progress information.
- Review recovery and mitigation programmes and evaluate their effectiveness in addressing schedule delays.
- Track design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and authority approval activities, including interfaces between these workstreams.
- Identify programme 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 scheduling updates clearly to project management and the Client.
- Participate in progress, planning, and coordination meetings involving the Contractor and other project stakeholders.
- Ensure planning and reporting activities comply with project procedures, contractual requirements, and applicable reporting standards.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor\'s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Relevant experience in planning and scheduling for infrastructure and construction projects.
- Strong 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, delay analysis, recovery programmes, and time impact analysis is preferred.
- UAE infrastructure project experience is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, communication, coordination, and reporting capabilities.
- Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary project teams and Contractors.
Planning and Scheduling Expertise
The position requires practical capability in Primavera P6 scheduling, programme monitoring, critical path assessment, progress measurement, resource-loaded schedules, look-ahead planning, delay analysis, recovery programmes, and time impact analysis. Accurate reporting and the ability to interpret Contractor schedule submissions are central to the role.
Working at AECOM
The Planning Engineer will join AECOM\'s Transportation business in a construction-focused career area. The position provides exposure to multidisciplinary infrastructure delivery and coordination with engineering, construction, project management, and Contractor teams.
AECOM states that employees may have access to benefits depending on employment status, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage, paid time off, leave programs, well-being resources, employee assistance, business travel insurance, recognition programs, retirement savings, and an employee stock purchase plan.
Newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
About AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting and professional services firm working across water, environment, energy, transportation, and buildings. Its services span advisory, planning, design, engineering, program management, and construction management for public- and private-sector clients.
