Senior Engineer - Planning & Control

About AIQ:

AIQ is an Abu Dhabi based joint venture company between Presight and ADNOC, which focuses on developing artificial intelligence technologies. AIQ develops and commercializes AI products and applications for energy world. It aims in providing end-to-end solutions by using its data, cloud and talents to develop AI solutions that seek to reduce costs and generate revenue for its clients. AIQ embodies an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit that embraces challenges to push boundaries and seeks to welcome professionals to its team that share the desire to make meaningful and impactful contributions to its mission. Always on the cutting edge of technology, AIQ provides its talent all the opportunities to thrive and excel. Working at AIQ includes dealing with massive data sets, an AI infrastructure that is powered by the latest NVIDIA GPU cloud computing platform and access to limitless computing, storage and network resources.

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Engineer - Planning and Control who will be responsible for leading and managing the planning and scheduling aspects of the project delivery. The role involves coordinating all planning & control activities related to project delivery operations.

Key Accountabilities:

• Overall evaluation and control of the assigned project schedules and performs schedule development, maintenance and monitoring of the planning/scheduling activities with minimal or no supervisory oversight.
• Manage various schedules to ensure that work is completed as scheduled and to identify schedule-associated cost trends for management attention and action. Responsible to support development of the monthly reports and to perform schedule assessments as requested.
• Takes a lead in preparing schedule data for proposals or contract negotiations as requested and checks and confirms that the correct scope of work is reflected on assigned schedules.
  Integrates inter-discipline schedule requirements and constraints to establish logical work sequences for assigned disciplines or specialties.
• Reviews and assesses the work sequences with the total project plan.
• Establishes and implements methods for determining activity durations within assigned disciplines or specialties.
• Develops quantity release and/or installation curves for assigned disciplines/areas or specialties.
• Reviews and approves invoice verification for payment based on cost-loaded schedules, as required.
• Reviews schedule data, identifies and acquires information needed to complete work logics to interface between assigned disciplines, specialties and/or projects.
• Develops specific project codes of accounts and work breakdown structures and recommends appropriate modifications and revisions for new work items assigned.
• Determines critical-path activities for assigned discipline or specialties and identifies significant activities supporting inter- discipline requirements and identifies critical path for discipline or specialty work activities.
• Identifies, analyzes and monitors schedule deviations for assigned disciplines or specialties including subcontractor submittals and recommends corrective action/work-around solutions for project considerations.
• Develops and writes the schedule commentary that appears in the monthly progress and similar reports.
• Identifies and reports activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule and prepares and presents the Critical Items Action Report.
• Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate under the direction of the Head of Projects.

Key Interfaces:

• Project Delivery & Technology teams, daily for the achievement of daily/weekly objectives.
• Commercial Team, occasionally for inputs in the product capabilities, solutions and client requirements.
• Finance Team, occasionally to provide inputs on resourcing and budget requirements.
• Customers, to understand and service requirements for resolution, and to gather feedback on existing product performance.
• Have daily interactions within the team, department and division on work related matters.
• Provide insights to Project Delivery, Product, Data Science, Software and R & D teams for enhancements in deployment.

Qualification and Years of Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or a related field.
• 10-12 years of related work experience in planning and scheduling.
• Min 5 years relevant and similar capacity in project estimating and cost controlling preferably in EPCIC/Oil & Gas/Technology industry.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

• Technically strong in project cost planning, scheduling and reporting.
• Knowledge in the use of MS Project, Primavera Scheduling and SAP software is required.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and meticulous.
• Possess good project background and technical writing ability and skills.
• Mature, proactive, resourceful and hands-on with good initiative.
• Independent worker who is able to work well with minimal supervision.
• Fast worker with ability to work well under stress.