Senior Planning / Delay Consultant

Job Summary

The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include

• Undertaking commercial and claims management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurately and timely manner
• Providing support to the team leader/service leaders in the cost management of projects
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships
• Providing accurate claims advice and reporting to our clients
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control

Requirements

• BSc in civil engineering or equivalent.
• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
• A minimum of 15 years’ technical delivery experience gained within a global construction consultancy, and a minimum of ten years’ forensic/delay experience
• Middle East experience
• Experience using Primavera (P6), MPP and Microsoft Office
• Good knowledge of FIDIC and P6 for drafting of defence claims, rebuttals, extension of time, disruption and acceleration claims
• Excellent understanding of delay analysis methodologies, key scheduling issues such as float, concurrent delay and the cumulative effect of delays to the schedule
• Experience in legal proceedings (arbitration, adjudication etc)
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills (both internal and external)
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible