Job description

Talent Pool – Planning Engineer supporting delivery of buildings, villas, mixed-use developments, and theme park projects across the Middle East, ensuring effective project planning and schedule control in line with contractual requirements.
Develops, updates, and monitors project schedules, tracks progress against baselines, and performs delay analysis in coordination with site teams, contractors, and project controls.
Prepares reports and forecasts to support decision-making, enabling timely identification of risks and ensuring successful project delivery within defined time and cost objectives.

Hill International, with more than 4,300+ professionals in over 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, project management oversight, advisory, facilities management, and other consulting services to clients in a variety of market sectors. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as one of the largest program management firms in the world. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com.

Hill is exclusively a program, project, and construction management provider, meaning we have one focus as a company: protecting client interests. Free of any potential conflicts, our entire business is geared towards helping clients achieve their desired outcomes. We are dedicated to exceeding expectations throughout the entire construction project lifecycle and adapt to the needs of each assignment to develop tailored approaches and solutions to meet those needs.

Hill is a GISI Consulting Group company, part of the Global Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. (GISI) family of companies. Learn more about GISI Consulting Group at www.gisiconsulting.com.

Hill International is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled
Note: This job description is intended to provide an indication of the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities and other essential functions to be carried out as part of fulfilling the role mentioned in the job title. Various other duties as required.

• Manage and review contractor schedules for project compliance requirements.
• Engage with Contractors to develop delivery, recovery, and mitigation plans.
• Develop detailed schedules with resource/cost loading at the activity level.
• Develop and maintain detailed deliverable lists for each design project in coordination with Project/Engineering Manager.
• Implement a deliverable-based progress measurement model and coordinate with Leads to maintain periodic updates.
• Utilize Earned Value Management techniques to evaluate schedule and cost performance metrics.
• Maintain weekly updates of Earned Value Analysis dashboard at the project and Sector level.
• Construction Support: Review, check and evaluate Contractors’ schedule of works. Monitor the work progress, compare to the accepted program of work and report to the Project Manager.
• Prepare weekly and/or monthly progress reports covering the status of construction projects.
• Proposal Support: Develop schedules in support of Parsons’ proposals for new pursuits.
• Attend meetings (both internally and externally) and discuss/present schedule/progress related matters.
• Informs themselves of the relevant Quality, Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Policies, Manuals and Procedures within Hill International and ensures continued compliance with these requirements while employed by Hill.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager/supervisor.

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil engineering, Construction or related field and minimum 10-15 years of experience in Planning/Scheduling, utilizing Primavera Project Management'P6'.
• Experience working on GCC projects.
• Proven experience in utilization of Earned Value Management in performance analysis and reporting.
• Must be fluent in English both written and spoken and be able to communicate effectively with colleagues and managers.
• Must have excellent skills in utilizing MS Office applications, especially Excel. Must be able to create and maintain complex spreadsheets, including the utilization
• Must be capable to work under pressure.
• Good communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of working internationally (preference GCC experience).