Job Description
Overview
Seeking an experienced Planning Engineer / Senior Planning Engineer with 12+ years of experience in project planning, scheduling, and controls for large-scale construction projects, including mission-critical data center developments. The role will be responsible for schedule management, progress monitoring, delay analysis, reporting, and providing planning support to ensure successful project delivery in collaboration with clients, contractors, and project stakeholders.
Your role
- Review and assess contractors' baseline schedules for compliance with contract requirements, project milestones, and construction sequencing.
- Monitor project progress and performance against approved baseline programmes and recommend corrective actions as required.
- Prepare and review short-term and long-term look-ahead schedules to support project execution and resource planning.
- Analyze schedule risks, critical paths, constraints, and potential impacts on project delivery.
- Conduct delay analysis and provide support for Extension of Time (EOT) assessments and claims evaluation.
- Review and validate contractor progress reports, recovery plans, and revised schedules.
- Develop project dashboards, KPI reports, earned value metrics, and schedule performance analyses.
- Coordinate with resident engineers, construction managers, contractors, and client representatives to collect and validate progress data.
- Monitor engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning activities to ensure alignment with project schedules.
- Identify schedule deviations and proactively recommend mitigation and acceleration strategies.
- Support project controls, risk management, forecasting, and change management processes.
- Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports with clear executive summaries and schedule analysis.
- Participate in project review meetings, progress meetings, and stakeholder workshops.
- Ensure planning and reporting activities comply with contractual requirements, consultant procedures, and industry best practices.
- Review schedule impacts associated with design changes, variations, procurement issues, and site constraints.
- Assist in project closeout planning, testing and commissioning schedules, and handover milestones.
About you
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent. Primavera P6 capability/certification preferred.
- Data Center Experience [at least 1 project is delivered in the last 5 years]
- 12+ years of experience.
- Baseline programme review, progress monitoring, look-ahead schedules, delay analysis, EOT support, progress dashboards and reporting; data centre, MEP-intensive or fast-track project experience preferred.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.
This includes:
- Tax-free salary.
- Life insurance coverage.
- Medical insurance.
- Annual leave balance.
- Company gratuity scheme.
- Discretionary bonus program.
- Annual flight contribution.
- Transportation & housing allowances.
- Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.
About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
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Worker Type
Employee
Job Type
Regular
At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
