Planner

**Requisition ID**:88493

**Job Category**:Project Controls

**Location**:Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally.

Join our Project Delivery Group (PDG), a dynamic team of professionals passionately committed to world-class project delivery across the globe. With expertise in sustainable studies, asset building and operations, and industry-leading efficiencies, our best-in-class team leverages methodologies, governance and systems that are unparalleled in the engineering space. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

Looking to take the next step in your career? Hatch is currently seeking a highly motivated Planner to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) in Abu Dhabi.

PDG helps clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities. We ensure world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering and project management and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

We manage our clients’ entire project lifecycle from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies. Join our team and become part of a community that strives for positive change-providing the best solutions for our clients’ toughest challenges

**Summary**
The Planner is responsible for the development and delivery of project planning and progress measurement, ensuring that Hatch procedures and best practices are applied, as appropriate, and recommending changes to the Project Controls Manager where required. The Project Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining the project master schedule to meet the project objectives.

**Your key responsibilities will be**:

- Safety
- A strong personal commitment to safety
- Personal responsibility for safety incident reporting
- Behavioral-based safety ethos to be embraced
- Personal responsibility for stopping any unsafe behavior as and when it occurs, and

thereafter reporting the safety incident so that corrective action may be obtained
- Familiarization with Hatch safety processes, protocols, and procedures.
- Data verification and Project set-up
- Participate in the planning meeting with Lead Planner / Functional Managers to finalize project schedule (using standard template) in study and execution phases
- Conduct interactive planning meeting with Lead Planner/ Functional Managers to finalize project implementation schedule
- Generate level 1and 2 project schedule and critical path and set baseline for project implementation phase
- Confirm and refine level 3 scheduling (incl. early works and in alignment with the schedule basis)
- Project schedule monitoring and updates
- Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports
- Maintain and optimize schedule, monitor progress, highlight and resolve schedule issues
- Generate all progress curves
- Develop and maintain commodity and resource profile
- Extract and publish four-week look ahead schedule
- Monitor slippages and critical and near critical paths and discuss with Project Controls Manager for resolution
- Establish all equipment/ material and contractor ROS (Required on Site) dates
- Provide schedule input to the procurement bid process including reporting requirements and vendor and contractor milestone dates
- Assist with bid evaluation and ongoing management of the vendors and contractors with respect to their schedule commitments
- Provide input for the Project trend and change management
- Once a change is approved, maintain and optimize the schedule, monitor progress and highlight/resolve areas of potential concern
- Project progress measurement and earned value
- Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports
- Obtain progress information via progress reports, EPCM status report, vendor progress report and cost report and calculate progress for construction packages

**You bring to the role**:

- Qualification in engineering or other relevant discipline or appropriate substituted experience
- 7 to 10 years’ experience as a planner in a multidiscipline project environment
- Sound technical knowledge in a multidiscipline environment
- Knowledge of the estimating and tendering processes.
- Knowledge in the use of Primavera Project Planner P6
- Technical overview of work methods and techniques
- Risk management princip