Planning Engineer

About the role

KAR OG Alan Sasan DMCC is looking for an experienced Planning Engineer to join its Operations and Project Controls Department in Erbil. The position reports to the Operations Manager, works full-time from Sunday to Thursday between 8:30 AM and 16:30 PM, and covers planning, scheduling, progress monitoring and reporting for the company's operations and projects.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (Levels 1-3) covering company activities, contractor deliverables, procurement, mobilisation, field execution and approvals, and prepare 3-week and 3-month look-ahead schedules.
• Define progress measurement rules, collect and verify weekly progress, measure it against the baseline, identify critical paths and variances, run delay analysis and coordinate recovery plans.
• Coordinate with Cost Control on schedule-related costs and payment reviews, and with HSE and contractors on safety requirements, permits, land access and demining clearance.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports with S-curves and milestone status, feed inputs to monthly NOC reports and JMC meetings, and maintain milestone, risk and change registers.
• Maintain the planning tool, coding structure, reporting templates and the progress measurement procedure, and keep planning records in coordination with Document Control.
• Hold the Planning Engineer accountable for accurate, consistent and timely planning information; recommend baseline revisions but cannot approve them, nor expenditure, scope changes, contractual commitments or payments.