Summary
Currie & Brown is seeking a Planner for a villa project in Dubai. The role involves developing and monitoring the master programme, reviewing contractor schedules, preparing progress reports and recovery plans, and analysing critical paths, changes and claims. The Planner will also monitor permitting and authority approvals and work with the Project Manager, Engineer and Contractor to resolve schedule issues. Applicants should have villa project experience, a relevant BSc, considerable pre- and post-contract experience on major projects, strong communication and technical writing skills, and experience with P6.
The posting
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About The Role
Currie & Brown is looking for a Planner for a prestigious Villa project based in Dubai
You will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.
Responsibilities will include:
- Develop and manage the master programme for the project
- Ongoing monitoring and reporting of all programme-related activities
- Proactive management of contractor’s programme
- Detailed reviews of contractor programme
- Monitoring the planning and project controls works for conformance with project procedures
- Develop and monitor the permitting and authority approvals process for the project
- Prepare baseline programme
- Prepare monthly reports and recovery plans (when applicable)
- Preparing and finalizing weekly progress report submissions and weekly quantity reports
- Provide the Project Manager with weekly progress updates, forecast completions, together with critical path and trend analyses
- Consistent assessment of the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and ‘what if’ scenarios to aid project management decision-making
- Work collaboratively with the Project Manager, Engineer and Contractor in resolving any and all project schedule issues
- Review and analyze contractors’ claims and prepare recommendations reports
Skills, experience & qualifications:
- Experience working on Villa projects.
- BSc in relevant discipline
- Must have considerable pre-contract and post-contract experience on major projects
- Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
- Experience with P6 software
About Us
Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.
We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.
We are an international industry leader – Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects and for some of the world’s top clients.
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work everyday and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be fundamental in creating a successful work force.
We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.