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    Top 10 steps you should do to be a successful planning engineer

    • Posted by Hany Ismail, MSC, PMP
    • Categories Planning Discussions
    • Date November 24, 2012
    • Comments 23 comments

    I am opening this topic for discussion what you should know to be a planning engineer?Should I Be an Engineer?

    Top 10 steps you should do to be a successful planning engineer


    Top 10 steps you should do to be a successful planning engineer

    I think there is a growing demand for the planning engineers specially in the middle east, some new graduated engineers thinking to start their careers as  planning engineers but they do not know what to do, Therefore i opened this discussion to share our knowledge and thoughts.

    I will put my point of view and every one is welcome to comment and share us with his / her thoughts. To be a successful planning engineer you should do the following Engineering Planning and Management :


    1- Please take my golden advise NEVER EVER look for the salary in your first 5 years in your career, Money will come later on if you are well experienced and well educated. Just look for the experience first (Big projects, international companies, professional managers….etc) even if it will cost you less salary or more efforts, after few years you may get double salary of your colleges because you planned for your future. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Most Successful Engineers who success to plan for their carrier from day 1.


    2- Do not start your carrier as a planning engineer, i believe you should work as a site engineer first to know the sequence of work and to feel the site work environment and this will help you later to estimate activities durations and sequence activity. I recommend to work 1 to 2 years as a site engineer to know Engineering Project Lessons Learned.


    3- Enhance your computer software knowledge,  while you are working as a site engineer you need to enhance your software experience to be able to go to the next level, at least you should know Auto Cad, Excel, Word, and of course our favorite software Primavera. do a time schedules for the works you are supervising and show it to the project planning engineer and get his / her advise.


    4- Next Level, Join the technical office: after you spent 1 or 2 years as a site engineer try to join the technical office in the site, mainly try to work as a quantity surveyor Q.S. This will improve your skills to read the drawings and to feel the numbers. Remember that planning engineer job mainly dealing with numbers such as quantities, productivity, progress percentages, manpower….etc, it is important for a successful planning engineer to know how to make a fast and accurate quantity surveyor or even to be monitoring a quantity surveyor under planning engineering department. I recommend to work 1 year as a quantity surveyor.


    5- Study project management: the real planning engineer not the one who knows primavera only, you should know the concept of the project management and this will make your life much easy. So i recommend to study the PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP)®  during your work as a  quantity surveyor Q.S, try to be certified from PMI because this will help you to go to the next level.


    6- Next level, work as a scheduler or a junior planning engineer: if you succeeded to be a Project Management Professional (PMP)® certified, then it will be easy to find  a scheduler or a junior planning engineer job. Remember at this stage you still looking for experience not the money. I recommend to work as scheduler or a junior planning engineer for 2 years and it is better to complete one or more project from the very beginning to the very end.


    7- Primavera and Microsoft excel are the core tools for the planning engineer: during your work as a scheduler or a junior planning engineer you should reach an advanced level in primavera and excel latest versions, i recommend to take advanced courses (could be online courses).


    8- sharing your knowledge and experience with others: some people may think that if they share the knowledge and experience with others it reduce their chance to be special and give others more power with negative impact on the one who is sharing his ideas, knowledge and experience with others, This is totally not true because the moment you think that you know every thing is the same moment you will start falling behind. sharing knowledge and experience is a perfect method to promote your self and find out many many mistakes you was doing and thinking that every thing is perfect. Just try it .


    9- Next start looking for a stable position with good salary: after reaching the step no. 8 you should be qualified for a good position as a planning engineer but i recommend to look for a stable company with good salaries for your next 3 to 4 years. work stability will be a factor now in your c.v, Therefore i recommend to choose a stable company or even if your existing company is stable that is fine.


    10- Continue learning and  improve your skills & knowledge: you can do this by checking the planning engineers websites, groups ,  forums or even study a master degree in management.

    at the end of this article i want to draw you attention to the self motivation factors which will keep you going on the right road of success, never be disappointed from your mistakes or from others judgement. Remember the more you work the more chance you will do mistakes and the different between the successful planning engineer and the loser planning engineer that the first one learns from his mistakes and the second one get disappointed easily.


    Tag:Auto Cad, excel, job, master degree in management, planning engineer, PMP, Primavera, productivity, professional managers, project management, Project Management Professional, quantity surveyor, salary, scheduler, Should I Be an Engineer, site engineer, successful planning engineer, time schedule

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    Hany Ismail, MSC, PMP
    Hany Ismail, MSC, PMP

    Hany Ismael is the founder and CEO of Planning Engineer Est. in Egypt. He has started his career back in 2003 as a site engineer, technical office engineer, planning engineer, planning manager, and finally planning department manager where he has been involved in several mega construction projects in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In 2016, he established his own company in Egypt “Planning Engineer Est.” Hany gained his MSc degree in project management from Liverpool University-UK 2013-2016, PMP certified from PMI-USA 2010, and BSc Civil Engineer Tanta University-Egypt 2003. Hany provided more than 3,500 hours of planning and project management training on his website planningengineer.net, YouTube channel, and offline courses since 2011. He enjoys teaching project management in simple and practical way, and he developed several planning tools, techniques and courses.

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      eng-hassan80
      November 25, 2012
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      thank you

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        Mahmood
        April 19, 2015
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        Thank you sir. May al mighty bless you and your family, these is valuable information to grew up my career.

    2. Hany Ismail, MSC, PMP
      admin
      November 29, 2012
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      Thanks Engineer Hassan

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      ahmed
      December 5, 2012
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      Thanks alot

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      Venkatesh Nemala
      December 6, 2012
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      what is productivity and from where we can learn this?

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        م. محمد عبدالنعيم
        December 7, 2012
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        The productivity is the amount of work done by the working unit (labor OR equipment) in a certain time.

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        م. محمد عبدالنعيم
        December 7, 2012
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        The productivity is the amount of work done by the working unit (labor OR equipment) in a certain time.

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      Venkatesh Nemala
      December 6, 2012
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      what is productivity and from where we can learn this?

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      Albert Valencia
      December 14, 2012
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      Very Well said Sir.

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        Venkatesh Nemala
        December 19, 2012
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        How to estimate or/and calculate the productivity for labour/material, any steps and the procedure, please let me know if u feel free.

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      Albert Valencia
      December 14, 2012
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      Very Well said Sir.

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      awaiskhan599
      December 16, 2012
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      thanks a lot sir

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      Anwar Abdel-Rahman
      December 18, 2012
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      very nice

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        Anwar Abdel-Rahman
        December 24, 2012
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        موقع حلو جدا لكل من يهتم بالبريمافيرا والتخطيط

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        Anwar Abdel-Rahman
        December 24, 2012
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        موقع حلو جدا لكل من يهتم بالبريمافيرا والتخطيط

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      Anwar Abdel-Rahman
      December 18, 2012
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      very nice

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      Regina Victoria Ortega
      April 27, 2013
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      kamuka

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      Atef Bahig
      April 27, 2013
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      very well…thanx

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      sai
      July 21, 2014
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      An IT engg can’t learn this EPPM (Project Management )

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      Shehzad Hassan
      January 10, 2017
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      Thanks Sir very very Nice Information and Procedure.

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      Anton
      January 19, 2017
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      Hello!
      Firstly let me thank you for your spectacular articles and also youtube channel.
      My aim is to become a planning engineer, overcome barrages of my language and to become a demanded international specialist.

      I would like you to comment my situation (about my career planning mostly):

      I am 27 years old and I am living in Russia. In contrary of point 2 of this article I had started my career as a scheduler in manufacturing company (heavy machinery). I have a good experience in my field. During my work in 1 ship-building company during 3 years, I was facing with cross-functional responsibility and my professionalism grew rapidly at that period of time. I was compelled to change my work because of considerable load of resources and inability to send on outsourcing some part of work. At the moment I am working on a usual manufacturing position as a dispatcher (planning daily areas work) but in leading international company. In the nearest future I will learn primavera (in certified educational center) and my hopes to reach the goal will be real.

      I want to ask for advice what to do next? I am planning to certify on CAMP(PMI Certified Associate in Project Management) and also thinking about Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) in AACE. Also I am trying to learn english and pass IELTS to open doors in english speaking community.

      With best regards, Anton.

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      Mohammed Naeem
      April 18, 2018
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      Thanks a lot

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      albertamoadu
      June 6, 2018
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      Oh ! wow! This is really help, It change the cause of my dream to be an outstanding Planning Engineer.
      Thanks alot

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