Portfolio Planning Lead - Mega-Project Scheduler (Hybrid)

Jacobs; Al Jawf Region; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Global company culture

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Planning

Scheduling

Critical path

Forecasting

Progress reporting

Job description

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.