Senior Planning Manager

Currie & Brown is looking for a Senior Planning Manager to join our team in Dubai. You will lead 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.

We welcome applications from experienced Planning Managers with either adelay analysis/delay management background or a general planning/project controls background. The successful candidate will have strong programme management experience and the ability to support complex, high-value construction projects through all stages of delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the master programme
• Ongoing monitoring and reporting of all programme-related activities.
• Proactive management / conducting detailed reviews of the contractor's programme.
• Monitor planning and project controls activities for conformance with project procedures.
• Develop and monitor the permitting and authority approvals process.
• Prepare the baseline programme.
• Prepare monthly reports and recovery plans, where applicable.
• Prepare and finalise weekly progress reports and quantity reports.
• Provide the Project Manager with weekly progress updates, completion forecasts, together with critical path and trend analyses.
• Continually assess the impact of approved changes and deviations from key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and what if scenario analysis to support project decision-making.
• Work collaboratively with the Project Manager, Engineer and Contractor to resolve project scheduling issues.
• Review and analyse contractors claims and prepare recommendation reports where required.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Experience working on high-end mixed-use projects.
• BSc in a relevant discipline.
• Significant pre-contract and post-contract planning experience on major construction projects.
• Experience in either delay analysis/delay management or general planning/project controls.
• Strong technical writing, communication and client-facing skills.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6.

At Currie & Brown, we know that when it comes to a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from. That's why we take a collaborative, open-door approach to running our business. Our people, from apprentices to senior management, make our company what it is. Everyone in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced, contributes to our success in their own way, and we have fun doing it.

Unlike other companies, we focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments. We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people. Whether it's the desire to work internationally, the urge to develop, or even the curiosity to work in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage, offering guidance, support and the structure to achieve. That's why so many of us have been building successful careers here for so long.

With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company. Our people are able to make quick and flexible decisions, and work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

This mix of our scale and size, our partnerships and our people makes us a true industry leader around the world.