Pro practicePlanning Engineer (Construction) practice interview
Construction programme development, progress measurement, critical path analysis, forecasting and recovery planning. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A Planning Engineer creates and maintains the time model that guides construction delivery. The interview tests whether you can build sound logic, measure progress honestly, analyse delay and turn programme detail into credible forecasts and recovery actions.
How to prepare
- Practise explaining how scope, quantities, productivity, calendars and constraints become programme activities.
- Review critical path, float, baselines, status dates and logic checks in the scheduling tool you use.
- Prepare an example where site evidence differed from reported progress.
- Think through a delay analysis without assuming every late activity delays completion.
- Prepare a recovery recommendation and the cost, resource or access trade-offs it created.
Common mistakes
- Building a programme from dates alone without defensible logic and production assumptions.
- Accepting subjective progress claims without quantities, inspections or other site evidence.
- Suggesting blanket acceleration without considering access, safety, resources and cost.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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