Senior Planner

Faithful+Gould Saudi Arabia Limited; AlUla; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Comprehensive life insurance

Premium medical insurance

Generous annual leave

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis seeks a Senior Planning Engineer based in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, to lead scheduling for high-profile mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations and cultural assets in the Middle East. You will develop baselines, monitor progress, and provide strategic planning support across all project phases.

The role requires extensive experience in planning, a track record of heritage/hospitality projects, and ability to interface with designers, PMCs, and contractors to ensure feasible

Qualifications

• 15 years of experience in planning/scheduling for large-scale developments, including heritage/hospitality/master planning projects.
• Proven ability to develop baseline schedules and manage multi-stakeholder programmes.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with earned value and dashboarding.

Responsibilities

• Develop initial baseline schedules for mixed-use developments and other major projects.
• Coordinate master planning, engineering, procurement and construction schedules; establish reporting procedures.
• Create and maintain programme dashboards; review and forecast schedule performance.

Job description

Job Description AtkinsRéalis is looking for a Senior Planning Engineer based in AlUla, KSA. We are looking for an experienced Senior Planning Engineer, to support the successful delivery of high-profile mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations, cultural assets, and recreational landmark projects in the middles east. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules, providing strategic planning support, and delivering schedule performance analysis across all phases of project delivery.

Your role

Ability to develop initial baseline schedules with little project information. This requires mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations, cultural assets, and recreational landmark projects.

• Assist in the preparation and management of overview and strategic programmes, including design, procurement and construction schedules together with supporting information required schedules Include all project stages from initiations to completion in the baseline and identify stage gates accordingly.
• Coordinate and manage the preparation and development of master planning, engineering, procurement, and construction schedules together with associated information required schedules Establish and agree project reporting procedures, prepare and present monthly project progress.
• Develop project and programme dashboard templates to be used across the programme by designer and contractors.
• Review the schedules and related documents from the designers and contractors including monthly reports and analyse the content to ensure compliance with project objectives.
• Review schedule trends to identify problem areas and recommend corrective action to management.
• Monitor actual progress against planned progress.
• Monitor engineering design progress, material and equipment procurement and construction and commissioning status.
• Prepare progress monitoring tools using earned value for the management and monitoring of the above mentioned schedules.
• Monitor progress both on and off site.
• Identify deviations (progress trends) in both construction and procurement progress and suggest possible courses of corrective action.
• Working closely with the Project Controls Manager and Project Team to ensure that the 'programme' is feasible, complies with the Project Master Plan and contractual documents.
• Interface on a daily basis with the designers, PMCs, main contractor sub contractors and internal management.
• Carry out studies into scheduling, manpower, cash flow, and material flow as needed.
• Attend offsite meetings as requested by the client.
• Review schedules for slippage of key dates.
• Assist in the defence / approval of any claim for time extension or major change to the schedule.
• Other duties as requested from time to time.
• Ensuring that each Planning Engineer runs his or her section to the highest professional standards, that all information is current, and that every member of the team is receiving the information he or she needs to fulfil their responsibilities.
• Establish and maintain consistent and adequate administration procedures, in their field.
• These procedures will be followed across the project by the respective planners working under the Construction Managers.
• Participate with the project management team, as directed by the Project Director, to achieve project deliverables.
• Involve key stakeholder requirements and approvals in the baseline Issue high-level schedule weekly updates.
• Identify and report main issues interfering with progress.
• Identify and report on measures for improving schedule performance.
• Establish Scheduling, reporting procedures, tools, templates, instruction, etc. to standardize the work across the programme.
• Monitor the timing of submittals against schedule requirements.
• Develop and monitor programme KPIs.

About you

• Ideally you should possess a degree in construction management and / or civil engineering and hold a membership/chartership from a construction related professional body.
• Generally, you will have 15 years of experience and have a track record of working on heritage/ hotels/master planning/ museum / cultural / pavilion projects, ideally with minimum 5 years’ experience working in the region.
• Arabic speaking and writing an advantage.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career. This includes:

• Tax-free salary.
• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Relocation assistance.
• Transportation & housing allowances (available for remote work locations).
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

About AtkinsRéalis We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

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