Planning Engineer at DP World Tanzania

Planning Engineer is responsible for developing, managing, and monitoring project plans to ensure engineering and construction projects are executed on time, within budget, and to required quality standards. This role ensures effective coordination between technical teams, contractors, and stakeholders by providing accurate scheduling, resource planning, progress tracking, and risk analysis. The Planner Engineer supports decision-making by delivering reliable project forecasts and ensuring compliance with safety, legal, and organizational requirements.

Key Performance Areas:

• Develop and maintain a multi-year and annual maintenance & engineering plan covering equipment, infrastructure, buildings and utilities.
• Coordinate with operations, planning and engineering teams to understand equipment usage, downtime events, and forecast maintenance demand.
• Schedule preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities to maximize equipment availability and minimize operational disruption.
• Allocate resources (labor, spare parts, contractors) and prepare detailed job plans, work orders and timelines.
• Track and monitor progress of maintenance jobs, update status, report variances, delays and reasons.
• Analyze equipment reliability data, downtime trends and maintenance KPIs to recommend improvements, root-cause elimination and cost optimization.
• Liaise closely with Operations/Planning team to align maintenance shutdowns with vessel/yard schedules, so operations are minimally impacted.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, environment & security (HSE&S) rules and terminal standards.
• Drive continuous improvement of maintenance planning processes and tools (e.g., CMMS usage, parts inventory optimization).

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor's in mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Marine Engineering and any other related bachelor's degree will be considered.

Experience and Skills Required:

• Minimum of 5 – 8 years’ experience in maintenance/engineering planning within a container terminal, port or heavy industrial environment (preferred).
• Strong understanding of container terminal operations: quay cranes, RTGs/Re-stackers, yard equipment, container flows.
• Experience with Maintenance Management Systems (Maximo).
• Excellent planning, scheduling and analytical skills; ability to interpret equipment failure data and prepare improvement plans.
• Solid communicator, able to interface with operations, maintenance, contractors, and vendors.
• Proficient with MS Office (especially Excel) and ability to generate reports and dashboards.
• Good knowledge of HSE standards, safe working practices in heavy equipment/port environment.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 111,000 employees from 159 nationalities, spanning 77 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

DP World is on a mission to transcend boundaries and bridge the gap between all nations and cultures – not just in what we do but also in how we behave.

We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity, drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies. Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what’s possible.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

EEO Statement

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