Lead Planner - NEOM

Jacobs; Al Jawf Region; Presencial; SAR 600 000 - 1 000 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Hybrid work policy

Global company culture

Resumo da oferta

Jacobs is seeking a Lead Planner in Saudi Arabia to own planning and schedule reporting for the closeout portfolio, setting schedule standards and critical-path analyses to inform decisions.

You will lead schedule reviews, develop demobilization and closeout schedules, and provide forecast insights through S-curves and dashboards, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver megaproject outcomes.

Qualificações

• 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 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conhecimentos

Planning

Scheduling

Critical path

Forecasting

Progress reporting

Descrição da oferta de emprego

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

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 Accountabilities

• 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.

Here’s what you’ll need

• 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.

Benefits

• You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits and opportunities to do good too – from participating in our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place.
• With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential.
• You’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.
• We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

From our inclusive employee networks to our positive mental health champions – we’re committed to driving a culture of caring where you can be you. Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally - and together, our diverse perspectives and unique backgrounds power our collective strength. We collaborate and share! By supporting one another, we all succeed.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery.

Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs Workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the nature of their role.