Senior Planning/ Project Control Engineer

Arbete Careers; Riyad Al Khabra; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Planning/Project Control Engineer to lead project scheduling and risk management efforts. In this pivotal role, you will build project baselines, maintain schedules, and communicate with stakeholders to ensure project success. Your expertise will drive the analysis of trends and forecast risks, while overseeing reporting protocols that keep all parties informed. If you are passionate about project management and ready to make a significant impact, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in engineering or project management discipline.
• Strong skills in project scheduling and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Builds project baselines and maintains project schedules.
• Analyses trends and communicates forecasted schedule risks.
• Prepares and manages progress reports for clients.

Skills

Project Scheduling

Risk Management

Resource Forecasting

Project Reporting

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Degree in Engineering

Degree in Project Management

Job description

About the job Senior Planning/ Project Control Engineer

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Builds project baselines and gains approval of client and internal stakeholders
• Maintains project schedule and resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycle
• Analyses schedule and trends and communicate forecasted schedule risk to project team, drives risk mitigation proposals
• Checks and controls schedule movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.
• Also compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of future task durations
• Ensures that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners
• Produces and communicates internal and external project reporting of project status
• Collaborates with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register
• Presents all time schedule data in a transparent way, attends project and management reviews to present schedule status
• Interface with the project management team and all key stakeholders.
• Manage the weekly and monthly progress report protocols / templates for progress reporting and monitoring progress against it.
• Manage the preparation of weekly and monthly progress reports/presentations for the client.
• Assisting in establishing / delivering formal reporting arrangements on project progress for the client and project.
• Prepare project advice for any site progress / planning concern that may impact site progress.
• Prepare and manage the daily escalation report for project managers.
• Overseeing the preparation of risk assessments and mitigation plans.

Educational Requirements:

• Degree qualified either in engineering or project management discipline