Planning Engineer | Construction | UAE 🇦🇪

We’re Hiring: Planning Engineer | Construction | UAE 🇦🇪

Allied Contracting LLC is looking for an experienced Planning Engineer to join our team in the UAE.
If you have 4–5 years of hands-on UAE construction experience and enjoy keeping projects on track, we’d like to hear from you.

What you’ll do

🔹 Create and maintain project schedules, baseline programmes and recovery plans

🔹 Monitor site progress against the approved baseline and report variances

🔹 Analyse the critical path to spot delays early and find ways to recover time

🔹 Assess delay events and prepare Extension of Time (EOT) submissions with supporting records

🔹 Prepare resource-loaded schedules and manpower, material and equipment plans

🔹 Review subcontractor programmes and prepare short-term and long-term look-aheads

🔹 Track engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning activities

🔹 Produce weekly and monthly progress reports, KPI dashboards and management presentations

🔹 Attend coordination meetings and give planning recommendations

What we’re looking for

✔ 4–5 years of relevant experience on UAE construction projects

✔ Degree in Civil Engineering or a related field

✔ Strong Primavera P6 skills, with a good understanding of CPM and resource allocation

✔ Good command of AutoCAD, MS Office 365 and PowerPoint

✔ Clear communication and presentation skills

✔ Ability to work with project teams, consultants and subcontractors

✔ Immediate or short-notice joiners preferred