Infrastructure Scheduling Planner - Primavera P6 Expert

AECOM Middle East Ltd; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Project Planner - Infrastructure Scheduling in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to develop and manage detailed schedules for major infrastructure programs. The role requires expertise in Primavera P6, progress monitoring, and schedule analysis to support forecasting and timely delivery.

The on-site position focuses on coordinating across engineering, procurement, construction, and project controls to ensure feasible, integrated master schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related field.
• 10+ years of professional project planning and scheduling experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed project schedules for infrastructure, rail, transportation, construction, and engineering assignments.
• Establish planning criteria, activity structures, sequencing, milestones, and schedule logic aligned with project delivery requirements.
• Use Primavera P6 to build, update, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules.
• Evaluate proposed planning outputs for feasibility, completeness, logical sequencing, and alignment with project objectives.
• Monitor actual progress against approved schedules and identify deviations requiring corrective attention.
• Analyze critical and near-critical activities to determine potential effects on key contractual and project milestones.
• Review schedule dependencies and interfaces between engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and other delivery activities.
• Gather progress information from project teams and validate inputs before incorporating updates into the schedule.
• Support development of schedule forecasts based on actual progress, outstanding scope, constraints, and current performance trends.
• Coordinate planning information across project management, engineering, construction, commercial, and project controls functions.
• Review contractor and consultant schedules and identify inconsistencies, unrealistic assumptions, or potential delivery conflicts.
• Assess planning implications arising from project changes, technical developments, revised priorities, and emerging risks.
• Support recovery and mitigation planning where progress indicates potential schedule slippage.
• Maintain planning records and schedule information in accordance with established project controls procedures.
• Prepare progress reports, schedule narratives, milestone assessments, and planning analysis for management review.
• Provide technical planning advice to project stakeholders on scheduling methodology, sequencing, and delivery priorities.
• Evaluate assigned planning activities and recommend improvements to processes, controls, reporting, and schedule management practices.

Skills

Project planning

Project scheduling

Primavera P6

Infrastructure scheduling

Rail project planning

Transportation projects

Construction planning

Integrated master schedules

Baseline scheduling

Schedule development

Schedule updating

Critical path analysis

Progress monitoring

Progress measurement

Schedule forecasting

Milestone tracking

Schedule variance analysis

Schedule risk identification

Recovery planning

Project controls

Engineering coordination

Construction sequencing

Contractor schedule review

Schedule reporting

Planning analysis

Project performance reporting

PMP

AACE

Primavera P6 Certification

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

AECOM is seeking a Project Planner - Infrastructure Scheduling in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to develop and manage detailed schedules for major infrastructure programs. The role requires expertise in Primavera P6, progress monitoring, and schedule analysis to support forecasting and timely delivery.

The on-site position focuses on coordinating across engineering, procurement, construction, and project controls to ensure feasible, integrated master schedules.