Project Planner and Controller

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We are currently seeking a Planner and Controller Engineer to join the WSP Maritime Team in the United Arab Emirates.

As a Project Planner and Controller, you will play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining project schedules, supporting maritime designs, and ensuring efficient project execution. You will collaborate closely with project managers and delivery teams to establish robust work breakdown structures (WBS), monitor progress, and manage schedule risks.

This role requires strong planning skills, resource allocation, and cost loading and commitment to teamwork. You will also be responsible for supporting project managers in large-scale projects and helping to maintain project schedules, quality deliverables, and client satisfaction. This role offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the timely and successful completion of complex maritime projects.

Your new role, what's involved?

• Gather data for schedule baseline development and maintenance.
• Coordinate with Project Managers and delivery teams to create a WBS and baseline schedules in accordance with projects goal for maritime designs during bid or delivery stages.
• Conduct schedule analysis of project schedule interdependencies, variances, floats, constraints, risks, critical and longest paths.
• Prepare schedule narratives and record basis of schedule and schedule risks.
• Perform delay analysis.
• Process approved schedule variations, Extension of Time and scope changes.
• Cost loading and resource loading of schedules in line with program/projects’ needs and client requirements.
• Setup progress measurement system, produce S-Curves, and histograms
• Prepare monthly and weekly progress reports.
• Produce look ahead schedules.
• Support project leaders in providing monthly forecasts of resources and budgets such as Estimate to Completion (ETC), Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Track and flag budget changes and variance at completion.
• Track and follow up on invoicing and payments.
• Participate in progress meetings as needed.
  
  

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in civil engineering, structural engineering coastal engineering or a related field.
• Charted or working toward chartership with the ICE or similar governing body advantageous.
• 5 years’ experience in maritime engineering and project management. UAE and KSA experience advantageous.
• Good confident communication, with good writing and presentation skills and Strong client facing skillswith the ability to manage project stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multicultural environment.
  
  

What's in it for you?

What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!

WSP recognizes that work is only one part of our lives and making time for the other things in our life is important – be that our families, our friends or ourselves. So, if working from home, working part-time or having flexible start and finish time will help with this let us know as part of your application.

As well as rewarding you with competitive pay, WSP offers standard benefits including first class medical cover, generous annual leave, and paid professional subscriptions.

Be you, be happy - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects and maximizes the contribution individuals can bring to WSP. We recognize the benefits that people with varying backgrounds and experiences can bring. Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

Apply now and be the future of WSP!

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