Senior Exploration Planning Specialist

Midana Exploration Company; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 280,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Midana Exploration Company is seeking a Planning Specialist to coordinate planning, cost, and schedule across exploration programs and maintain reporting consistency.

You will provide a single view of progress, spend, commitments, forecast and risk to the Exploration VP, working with geology, logistics, data and finance teams. Travel to active programs and contractor sites is required.

Qualifications

• Minimum tertiary qualification in planning, engineering, finance or related discipline.
• Formal training in planning, scheduling or cost control preferred.
• Professional credentials (e.g., PMI-SP or AACE PSP) advantageous but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Build integrated work plans across exploration programs with dependencies.
• Support annual planning, forecasts and long-term budgets.
• Develop work-breakdown structures linking scope to schedule.
• Track critical path and flag slippage for recovery actions.
• Prepare variance analysis and concise reporting for leadership.

Skills

Budget control

Schedule logic

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Reporting

Risk tracking

Contractor progress

Excel/PowerPoint

MS Project/ Primavera

Power BI

Education

Bachelor's degree in planning/engineering/finance/business

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Midana Exploration Company is seeking a Planning Specialist to coordinate planning, cost, and schedule across exploration programs and maintain reporting consistency.

You will provide a single view of progress, spend, commitments, forecast and risk to the Exploration VP, working with geology, logistics, data and finance teams. Travel to active programs and contractor sites is required.