Consultant

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules that support and align with project requirements.
• Interact with project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan.
• Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
• Analyse critical path and constraints to determine effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-around.
• Monitor and advise on status of project KPIs.
• Support project team to maintain timely and effective change management processes, procedures and systems.
• Assist project team to develop status reports to keep management informed on project progress.
• Conduct analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.

Requirements

• +5 years’ experience in design, procurement and construction planning. Basic claims knowledge.
• Advanced level computer literacy in Primavera P6 and MS applications, including Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of CPM and/or other planning and resourcing methods
• Basic understanding of Project Management Standards: Scope, time, cost, quality, risk, procurement, communications and resource management.
• Able to coordinate and work with other teams and have basic multi-disciplinary knowledge.
• Good research and analytical skills, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent communication and organization skills.