Job Purpose:
The Senior Planning Manager is responsible for leading and managing the planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control of the company's real estate development projects throughout the project lifecycle, from concept design and pre-construction through construction, handover, and closeout.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, review, and maintain integrated master schedules for all development projects.
- Establish project baselines, key milestones, critical paths, and contractual completion dates.
- Coordinate project schedules across design, procurement, construction, infrastructure, utilities, testing and commissioning, and handover activities.
- Develop detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project.
- Review and validate contractors' baseline programs, recovery schedules, and periodic updates.
- Ensure schedules reflect the full development lifecycle, including design approvals, permitting, procurement, construction, and handover.
- Monitor project progress against approved baselines and identify delays, deviations, and potential risks.
- Analyze critical and near-critical activities and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
- Conduct schedule impact analysis and evaluate extensions of time and delay claims.
- Prepare recovery plans and mitigation strategies for delayed or at-risk projects.
- Establish and maintain planning and reporting procedures, progress measurement systems, and project control standards.
- Verify reported progress against actual site achievements and supporting documentation.
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and executive-level project progress reports.
- Develop dashboards covering schedule performance, milestones, project status, and forecast completion dates.
- Present schedule risks, slippages, critical issues, and recovery recommendations to senior management.
- Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and monitor project performance against approved targets.
- Provide accurate forecasts to support management decisions and portfolio-level planning.
- Coordinate with development, design, engineering, procurement, construction, and commercial teams to ensure alignment of project deliverables.
- Monitor design development, design reviews, authority approvals, and construction drawing releases.
- Integrate consultant deliverables and design packages into the overall project schedule.
- Track dependencies between design completion, procurement, construction readiness, and project handover.
- Coordinate with relevant authorities and utility providers, where applicable, to monitor approval and connection milestones.
- Identify schedule risks, constraints, and interface issues across projects.
- Maintain project planning risk registers and develop mitigation action plans.
- Conduct what-if scenarios and schedule sensitivity analysis.
- Assess the time implications of design changes, scope variations, procurement delays, and site constraints.
- Support the preparation and evaluation of extension-of-time submissions and contractual schedule assessments.
- Consolidate individual project schedules into an integrated development portfolio master plan.
- Monitor resource requirements, construction sequencing, and key resource constraints.
- Coordinate project priorities and milestone commitments across multiple developments.
- Support feasibility studies, development phasing, launch strategies, and delivery planning.
- Provide schedule inputs to annual business plans, cash flow forecasts, and development delivery targets.
- Lead, mentor, and develop planning engineers and project planning teams.
- Establish standardized planning procedures, templates, reporting formats, and scheduling guidelines.
- Review planning deliverables submitted by consultants, contractors, and internal project teams.
- Promote accountability, data accuracy, and timely reporting across project stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, project governance requirements, and contractual obligations.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related discipline.
- Typically, 12–15 years of relevant experience in project planning and controls, including substantial experience in real estate development or major construction projects.
- At least 5 years in a senior planning or management role, preferably managing multiple projects or a development portfolio.
- Strong experience in residential, commercial, mixed-use, infrastructure, or master-planned development projects.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel; familiarity with Power BI and other reporting tools is an advantage.
- Solid knowledge of project scheduling, critical path analysis, earned value management, risk assessment, and delay analysis.
- Experience reviewing contractor programs, evaluating schedule recovery plans, and assessing time-related claims.
