Senior Planning Manager

About the role

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About the role

Senior Planning Manager (Infrastructure)

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Planning Manager to join our team! In this role you will lead integrated programme planning across multi-package infrastructure works, ensuring schedule integrity, progress control, and time-related change/claims support.

What You'll Be Doing

• Develop a Master Schedule integrating multiple packages considering their interdependencies to identify and reflect the impact of one schedule/project on others.
• Review and convey PMC's and Engineer's consent to the Contractors' Baseline schedule of works in line with Contract conditions, and using Parsons Recommended Practices
• Provides guidance, direction, and specialized assistance to projects for the resolution of difficult and complex project control problems.
• Validation of compatibility of project resources for timely completion of the project.
• Strong foreseeability to identify the potential risks/conflicts and document them in the Project Risk Register.
• Evaluate & verify the planning and scheduling information from the updated / progress schedules. Identify the potential areas of delay/slippage, highlight the critical events & suggest mitigation measures / corrective actions / robust recovery plan.
• Review contractor baseline and updated programmes and support the Engineer's consent in line with contract conditions and Parsons practices.
• Analyze progress updates to identify delays/slippage and critical events; recommend mitigation and recovery actions and run "what-if" scenarios.
• Prepare weekly/monthly progress reports, programme analysis, dashboards, and milestone presentations.
• Support time-related assessments including EOT/claims using recognized delay analysis methods (e.g., time impact and window analysis), including concurrent delay where applicable.
• Agree the progress measurement system (PMS) and KPIs, and coordinate finalization of contractor programmes, reports, and claims with stakeholders.
• Maintain contemporaneous records and issue schedule performance notices where required.
• Manage and mentor planning engineers, providing technical leadership and oversight.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 18 years experience in planning and scheduling of infrastructure projects with multi-discipline scope (utilities, structures, landscape, etc.).
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, interfaces, and coordination requirements.
• Proficiency in scheduling software, particularly Primavera P6.
• PMC experience is preferred

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven people-management capability.
• GCC experience on major infrastructure/utilities programs.
• Thorough knowledge of industry best practices and relevant regulations.

Additional information

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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