Planner / Building & Project Consultancy

Savills Group; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Savills Group is seeking a seasoned Planner to develop and maintain integrated project programmes for major construction projects in the KSA. You will analyze progress, forecast schedules, manage interfaces across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning, and produce executive dashboards and look-ahead schedules.

The role requires 7+ years in planning, strong CPM and earned value knowledge, and excellent English communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management or related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years planning and scheduling on major construction or infrastructure projects (KSA/GCC preferred).
• Advanced Primavera P6 capability including baselines and resource/cost loading.
• Strong understanding of CPM, progress measurement, delay and TIA, earned value.
• Executive dashboards; Power BI experience advantageous.
• PMI-SP / PMP or AACE PSP certification advantageous.
• Excellent English communication and strong stakeholder reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and interrogate the integrated project programme with reliable progress measurement.
• Support proactive decision-making by identifying critical-path issues and recovery actions.
• Review contractor baselines; ensure logic, sequencing, calendars and compliance.
• Prepare weekly/monthly schedule reports, dashboards, S-curves and forecasts.
• Coordinate interfaces across engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning.
• Maintain schedule narratives, change logs and auditable records.
• Support earned value analysis and cash-flow forecasting; align with cost/resource data.
• Lead planning workshops and communicate priorities to stakeholders.

Skills

Primavera P6

Critical path method

Earned value principles

Power BI

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project systems

Job description

The Role

Develop, maintain and interrogate the integrated project programme, providing reliable progress measurement, forecasting and schedule risk analysis. The Planner will support proactive decision-making by identifying critical-path issues, interface constraints and recovery actions across multiple work packages.

Key Responsibilities

• Review contractor baseline and revised programmes for logic, sequencing, resource loading, calendars, milestones and contractual compliance.
• Develop and maintain the consultant’s integrated master schedule and package-level reporting structure.
• Update progress using verified site data and assess planned versus actual performance, critical path and float movement.
• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule reports, dashboards, S-curves, look-ahead schedules and milestone forecasts.
• Identify delays, constraints and programme risks; quantify potential impacts and recommend mitigation or recovery actions.
• Review recovery programmes, acceleration proposals, time-impact analyses and extension-of-time submissions.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning teams to validate interfaces and dependencies.
• Maintain schedule narratives, assumptions, change logs, progress measurement rules and auditable records.
• Support earned value analysis, cash-flow forecasting and alignment between programme, cost and resource information.
• Facilitate planning workshops and communicate schedule priorities and required decisions clearly to stakeholders.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline.

• Minimum 7 years of planning and scheduling experience on major construction or infrastructure projects, preferably in KSA/GCC.
• Advanced Primavera P6 capability, including baselines, logic analysis, resource/cost loading and schedule comparison.
• Strong understanding of critical path method, progress measurement, delay analysis, time impact analysis and earned value principles.
• Experience preparing executive dashboards and concise planning narratives; Power BI experience is advantageous.
• PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP or equivalent certification is advantageous.
• Excellent written and spoken English, strong reporting and stakeholder communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant project systems.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary, fast-paced consultancy environment in KSA.
• High standards of integrity, confidentiality, organisation and attention to detail.