Scheduling Engineer

Saudi Aramco; Dhahran Compound; On-site; SAR 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Saudi Aramco is seeking a Scheduling Engineer to join the Project Control Division of the Producing Project Management Department. The role focuses on developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules to enable timely execution and accurate reporting.

The candidate should have a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, 15+ years in scheduling and project management in oil and gas, proficiency with Primavera, and PMP or Scheduling Professional certification.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline from a recognized program.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience with advanced knowledge in scheduling engineering and project management, preferably in oil and gas facilities.
• Proficiency in scheduling tools such as Primavera; PMP or Scheduling Professional (SP) certification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules, including baseline schedules, milestones, and key deliverables.
• Monitor project progress against approved schedules and identify delays or deviations.
• Perform critical path analysis and identify schedule constraints and bottlenecks.
• Communicate schedule risks, issues, and interventions promptly.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of scheduling data and reporting.
• Collaborate with construction teams to review and approve schedules and ensure on-track progress.
• Develop and maintain standardized planning and control procedures and reporting requirements.
• Oversee daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports, look-ahead plans, progress curves, and manpower histograms.

Skills

Scheduling

Project management

Communication

Reporting

Education

Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Primavera

Job description

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview:

We are seeking a Scheduling Engineer to join Project Control Division of Producing Project Management Department (PPMD) under Producing.

PPMD serves as a construction agency for C1 projects managing geographically diverse portfolios spanning from North to South, onshore and offshore fields. In addition, PPMD coordinates Maintain potential projects as the proponent representative.

Your primary role is to develop, maintain, and monitor projects schedules to ensure effective planning, resource coordination, progress tracking, and timely project execution. The role supports project management teams in identifying schedule risks, analyzing deviations, and recommend corrective actions to achieve project milestones and objectives.

Key responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Develop and maintain project schedules, including baseline schedules, milestones, and key deliverables that enables subsequent reporting in Saudi Aramco systems.
• Monitor project progress against approved schedules and identify delays or deviations.
• Perform critical path analysis and identify schedule constraints and potential bottlenecks.
• Ensure timely communication of schedule risks, issues, and required interventions.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of scheduling data and reporting.
• Work with construction team in preparing, reviewing and/or approving the project schedule and ensure the project is on track by utilizing schedule monitoring tools.
• Develop, implement, and maintain standardized planning and control procedures, guidelines and reporting requirements.
• Oversees the preparation of daily, weekly and monthly project progress reports, look-ahead plans, progress curves, and manpower histograms.

As the successful candidate you will have:

• You will hold Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline from a recognized and approved program.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience with advance knowledge in scheduling engineering and project management, obtainable usually through a combination of experience and continuing education, preferably in oil and gas facility.
• Should perform the development of baseline critical path schedules and progress measurement systems in order to plan, update, track, analyze schedule risk and report work performance for all phases of the project.
• Proficiency in scheduling tools such as; Primavera.
• Hold Project Management Professional (PMP), Scheduling Professional (SP) Certification, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical, communication, and reporting skills.

Work Location and Work Schedule

Work location: Within Saudi Arabia – To be specified in Job offer

Work schedule: Full Time - To be specified in Job offer

Job Posting Duration

Job posting end date: 10/27/2027

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.