Responsibilities
Key duties and responsibilities include:
- Manage all aspects of planning, scheduling, and programming of work.
- Lead planning input on assigned projects, including managing contributions from other planners to ensure consistent and effective delivery aligned with scope, time, cost, and quality requirements.
- Establish baseline schedules and control procedures and monitor progress to ensure early identification of issues.
- Provide progress and earned value reports to support financial forecasting and enable timely corrective actions.
- Assist senior planners in monitoring project risks, issues, resource allocation, and CPM analysis; support the project controls manager in keeping with WSP and client standards.
- Support project planning, scheduling, and control inputs for estimating and tendering activities, ensuring relevant issues, actions, and risks are addressed.
- Promote a high-performance culture aligned with WSP values by actively participating in performance management and contributing to the professional growth of team members.
- Contribute to the planning and control strategies of assigned projects, including the development of standards, procedures, dashboards, and progress reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
- Perform other tasks as assigned by the Line Manager or Head of Department (HOD) within the GCC PMCM team.
- Key Competencies / Skills
Mandatory Skills:
- Strong expertise in project scheduling and proven experience with planning tools such as Primavera P6, Primavera Risk Analysis, and Microsoft Project.
- Solid understanding and application of Critical Path Analysis, Earned Value Techniques, and general project management principles.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and Word for creating tools and dashboards to support stakeholder communication.
- In-depth knowledge of project scheduling philosophies, principles, practices, and techniques.
- Experience reviewing and ensuring the quality of junior planners work; excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with P6 & Microsoft project
- Ability to mentor and guide junior planners to deliver planning outputs on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
Qualifications
- Minimum: Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
- Typically, 8+ years of relevant experience in project scheduling.
- Certification in project management (e.g., CAPM, PMP, or PRINCE2).
- Preferred: Additional qualifications in Project Management or Construction Management.
