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A planning engineer has one of the most important roles in construction projects. Planning
Engineers are responsible for ensuring that the project will be completed as per project
management plan deadlines. Planning Engineers should raise any potential risks before it
happens and guide the whole team through the project different stages.

Main skills required for a planning engineer:

 Strong construction background is required to Understanding the scope of the project

and identify the activities and activities dependency. This experience could be gained by
working as a Site Engineer for a period of time or by monitoring and observing the work
progress.

 Project Management Knowledge: Planning Engineer should be familiar with project

management terms and techniques such as EVM (Earned value Management), CPM
(Critical Path Method) etc, a PMP (Project Management Professional Certificate) will
cover this point.
 Computer literate: Planning Engineer should know how to process the planning
techniques via software and Producing visual aids to help explain the schedule of work.
Oracle primavera, Microsoft Excel are essential tools, Other aid tools could be
PowerPoint, Auto cad and Photoshop.
 Attention to details: Accuracy is the main core of Planning Engineers works, The main
difference between successful planning engineer and other (fail) planning engineer is pay
attention to details, Engineering common sense and data analysis and filtration. Planning
Engineers are dealing with big amount of data every day, However they should figure out
what this data try to say and not just pass them to others.
 Communication and interpersonal skills: Planning Engineers are key player in a
construction project, They communicate almost with the whole project team, attend
variance meetings with different parties and prepare lot of reports. Therefore Good
communication and interpersonal skills are required.