Senior Planning Engineer (Delay & Forensic Planning)

The opportunity:

Senior Planning Engineer (Delay & Forensic Planning) No.4 positions available

Our client is a consultancy services firm specialising in expert witness and dispute resolution services to the construction and engineering industries. This long-established organisation focuses on providing a range of high level services to a broad range of construction and engineering clients which include law firms, employers, contractors & governments.

Based in the Midlands, Qatar or Dubai all offering international major project exposure, if you so wish, this opportunity when based in the UK can support your move over to the Middle East after your initial probation or personal development.

The business employs a range of both experts and consultants focused on Delay and Disruption and Time related disputes. Having had a very busy year the team are stretched because of a high continued high workload. They therefore are seeking to employ 2 new members of this team, someone ideally from a Planning, construction management, engineering or project management background, who has experience of either managing or defending EOT or delay related claims, experience of supporting expert witnesses or exposure to this type of work within either another consultancy or a main contractor and have a keen interest in furthering their career within Dispute Resolution and Expert Services.

Responsibilities:

Delivering high quality dispute related advice to contractors, law firms and employers on high value projects and complex planning disputes. Supporting expert witnesses or providing expert advice and working as a team on a range of Project/Dispute-related EOT/Planning work. Visiting and assessing clients problems before putting together a claims strategy and defence. Providing contract advice, particularly in relation to planning/ time, and due diligence of contractor’s programmes, and/or presenting on delay issues. Litigation support and arbitration work

Requirements:

Ideally at least part of your experience will have been spent working for a contractor in the building, infrastructure, oil & gas or power sector. Experienced in one or all of delay analysis, dispute resolution/avoidance, claims management, arbitration/litigation support or expert witness work. Ideally circa 10 years post qualification experience with at least 5 spent delivering projects on site.

Ideally you will have experience of working on projects valued £25m upwards. Degree qualified in engineering, construction management or similar ideally with additional legal qualification or a willingness to work toward these. Someone with a forensic mind and good attention to detail. You should possess excellent written and verbal English language skills.

A people person, a team player and someone enthusiastic with the drive and motivation to want to develop and progress their career in Dispute Resolution.

Good knowledge of Planning software including ideally Primavera, ASTA and MS Project. We apply strict candidate confidentiality when working with you all conversations are between us & NEVER repeated without your permission.

Negotiable Salary & Package for the right person permanently employed in Madrid, Spain.

I look forward to working with you.

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