Posted 4 months ago
Senior Associate - Development Projects Scheduling
Abu DhabiOn-siteFull-time
AI Summary
Senior Associate monitoring and scheduling real estate development projects, ensuring plan adherence, risk identification, and reporting to management.
About this role
Job Purpose
•Monitor all project plans adherence to their initial schedule
•Ensure that schedule progress is accurately reported to management
•Identify risks and delays with mitigation plans
Please note, this role is for Emiratization Only.
Roles & Responsibilities
•Develop Aldar projects high-level pre-construction and construction planning in conjunction with the project teams, to identify critical path and alternate schedules
•Review plan against schedule developed by PMC/ EOR to ensure realistic timeframes and recommend changes
•Provide support and input during project feasibility phases
•Provide information to contracts team, on claims related issues
•Coordinate with project teams from pre-planning to delivery regarding scheduling, monitoring and risk mitigation
•Coordinate with project teams to track progress on project plan and adherence to schedule
•Support in development of reporting templates and prepare regular reports to assess Aldar projects portfolio adherence to schedule
•Identify and raise deviations from the plan to the senior manager, assess impact on project and liaise with project teams to notify them of potential delays
•Support project teams in identifying opportunities for improvement, risks and areas where additional effort is required
•Coordinate with Cost Control to assess schedule deviations impact on the budget
•Review all variation orders and assess impact on overall project plan
•Provide the criteria to distribute the forecast cost, according to the schedule, to develop the project cashflow.
•Generate regular reports on project progress to the management incl. risks and mitigations.
Key Results Areas
•Accuracy of project schedule and completion forecasted dates.
•Risk identification (% of risks/issues/failures identified in advance)
RELATED YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Min of 5+ years of experience in planning and control of real estate development projects [annual revenue of at least AED 2 billion]
FIELD OF EXPERIENCE
•Real Estate / Construction
TECHNICAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
•Strong knowledge and exposure to the GCC real estate market
•Deep understanding of project phases
•Experience of using Primavera P6 is essential
•Ability to multi-task, monitor schedule for more than 5 projects at a time
•Adept at handling multiple stakeholder relationships
•Excellent conflict resolution skills required to identify and propose solutions for any schedule slippage/cost overrun issues
•Attention to detail to monitor and track schedule
QUALIFICATION
Bachelors degree in engineering, construction management or operations.
Skills
Cashflow DevelopmentCost ControlForecastingGCC Real Estate MarketPrimavera P6Project SchedulingRisk IdentificationSchedule Monitoring
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