Lead Planner

AimGulf; Neom; Hybrid; SAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Lead Planner in Saudi Arabia to own scheduling for the closeout portfolio. The role sets schedule standards, develops demobilization and preservation schedules, and leads schedule reviews to support closeout decisions.

Responsibilities include producing forecasts, conducting critical path analysis, and delivering executive dashboards for progress and milestones. Significant multi-billion SAR portfolio exposure and senior stakeholder engagement are involved.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in schedule development, review, forecasting, critical path analysis, progress measurement, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own schedule reporting across the portfolio and set status, update, review, and reporting cycle.
• Set planning standards, coding requirements, schedule templates, calendars, reporting cut-offs, and quality checks.
• Develop and maintain integrated demobilization, preservation, termination, and closeout schedules.
• Prepare schedule forecasts covering milestones, remaining activities, contract interfaces, handovers, preservation periods, and closure dates.
• Perform critical path, near-critical path, float, logic, constraint, and schedule health analysis.
• Develop S-curves, milestone trends, progress curves, schedule narratives, and executive planning dashboards.
• Lead schedule review meetings with project, construction, commercial, procurement, contractor, consultant, and stakeholder teams.
• Assess schedule updates for completeness, logic, status accuracy, sequencing, and support for reported progress.
• Combine contract and workstream schedules into a portfolio view and identify cross-contract dependencies.
• Identify slippage, constraints, missed milestones, and forecast changes, and explain the effect on closeout objectives.
• Provide schedule substantiation for claims, disputes, settlement discussions, and final account reviews.
• Lead planning inputs to weekly and monthly reports, demobilization reports, closeout reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Support the Project Controls Manager in portfolio reviews and senior stakeholder discussions.

Skills

Schedule review

Schedule forecasting

Critical path analysis

Progress measurement

Schedule reporting

S-curve analysis

Milestone tracking

Contract interfaces

Handover coordination

Schedule health analysis

Schedule substantiation

Claims resolution

Final account reviews

Job description

The Lead Planner owns planning and schedule reporting for the closeout portfolio. The role sets schedule standards, develops integrated demobilization and preservation schedules, leads schedule reviews, and provides critical path, progress, S-curve, and forecast analysis to support closeout decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own schedule reporting across the portfolio and set the status, update, review, and reporting cycle.
• Set planning standards, coding requirements, schedule templates, calendars, reporting cut-offs, and quality checks.
• Develop and maintain integrated demobilization, preservation, termination, and closeout schedules.
• Prepare schedule forecasts covering milestones, remaining activities, contract interfaces, handovers, preservation periods, and closure dates.
• Perform critical path, near-critical path, float, logic, constraint, and schedule health analysis.
• Develop S-curves, milestone trends, progress curves, schedule narratives, and executive planning dashboards.
• Lead schedule review meetings with project, construction, commercial, procurement, contractor, consultant, and stakeholder teams.
• Assess schedule updates for completeness, logic, status accuracy, sequencing, and support for reported progress.
• Combine contract and workstream schedules into a portfolio view and identify cross-contract dependencies.
• Identify slippage, constraints, missed milestones, and forecast changes, and explain the effect on closeout objectives.
• Provide schedule substantiation for claims, disputes, settlement discussions, and final account reviews.
• Lead planning inputs to weekly and monthly reports, demobilization reports, closeout reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Support the Project Controls Manager in portfolio reviews and senior stakeholder discussions.

Experience Required:

• Minimum 20 years of planning and scheduling experience.
• Minimum 10 years of experience on major projects in Saudi Arabia and/or the GCC.
• Experience on mega-projects or mixed-use programs with multi-billion SAR portfolios and a high volume of contracts.
• Substantial experience in schedule development, review, forecasting, critical path analysis, progress measurement, and reporting.
• Experience with demobilization, preservation, termination, handover, or closeout schedules is preferred.

Skills Required:

• Schedule review
• Schedule forecasting
• Critical path analysis
• Progress measurement
• Schedule reporting
• S-curve analysis
• Milestone tracking
• Contract interfaces
• Handover coordination
• Schedule health analysis
• Schedule substantiation
• Claims and disputes resolution
• Final account reviews

Employment / Job Type:

Full Time

Nationality:

Any Nationality

About the Company:

Jacobs provides consulting, engineering, design, and project delivery services for infrastructure, cities, water, transport, energy, and advanced facilities. Its Gulf teams support major development programs and hire across engineering, project management, planning, digital, commercial, environmental, and corporate functions.

Company Industry:

Construction

Department / Functional Area:

Project Management

Closing Date:

Not mentioned (apply as soon as possible)