Senior Planning Engineer

About the role

The Senior Planning Engineer will lead the planning activities for construction projects, ensuring resources are allocated efficiently and schedules are realistic. Working closely with project managers and multidisciplinary teams, you will drive the identification of critical paths and manage subcontractor schedules to support project delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Allocate resources, load and level work as required.
• Coordinate with project managers to align planning with strategic targets.
• Assist the project team in defining subcontracting plans, highlighting targets and milestones.
• Identify and monitor project schedule critical paths.
• Supervise preparation of progress reports and presentations, highlighting risks to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with all project disciplines to validate schedules and communicate risks.
• Approve, monitor and analyze subcontractors’ baseline and updated schedules and assess impact on the master schedule.
• Settle subcontractor performance indicators and flag deviations.
• Prepare delay analyses and resolve time claim issues.
• Support project cash‑flow management and invoicing processes.

Required profile

• Proven experience in construction project planning and scheduling.
• Strong understanding of critical path analysis and schedule risk management.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams and communicate schedule status to stakeholders.
• Experience reviewing and integrating subcontractor schedules.
• Knowledge of delay analysis and time claim resolution.
• Familiarity with cash‑flow and invoicing support in project environments.

Required skills

• Project scheduling and planning techniques.
• Critical path method (CPM) analysis.
• Schedule risk identification and mitigation.
• Delay analysis and time claim preparation.