Senior Planner

DAR AL RIYADH; Medina; Sur place; SAR 600 000 - 1 200 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

DAR AL RIYADH is seeking a Senior Planning/Scheduling Engineer in Saudi Arabia with 15–22 years of experience to oversee contractor programmes and monitor progress across large infrastructure and urban development projects.

You will review baselines, monitor interfaces, and perform critical path and trend analyses to forecast milestones and handovers, coordinating with multiple project functions and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline.
• 15–22 years of total professional experience.
• 10–12 years in planning/scheduling roles.
• 8–12 years GCC/KSA experience.
• Experience in PMC or engineering consultancy providing independent programme oversight is preferred.
• Proven experience on infrastructure D&B, major urban development, or mixed-use projects.
• Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6 and scheduling principles.
• Strong baseline management, critical path, float analysis, progress measurement, delay analysis, and forecasting.

Responsabilités

• Review contractor baselines and updated programmes for compliance with project requirements.
• Verify integration of design approvals, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and handover activities.
• Independently monitor actual progress against approved planned progress.
• Perform critical path, float, schedule variance, and trend analyses.
• Validate contractor-reported progress against site conditions and verified accomplishments.
• Identify delays, risks, trends and impacts on milestones.
• Review contractor recovery programmes, look-ahead schedules, and EOT submissions.
• Coordinate programme information with Construction, Commercial, Contracts, Engineering, and other functions.
• Forecast completion dates and milestones based on current performance and trends.
• Provide independent programme assessments, recommendations and early warnings to the Client.

Connaissances

Project scheduling

Baseline management

Critical path analysis

Progress measurement

Delay analysis

Stakeholder management

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Outils

Primavera P6

MS Project

Description du poste

Key Responsibilities

• Review and assess Contractor baseline and updated programmes for compliance with project requirements
• Verify integration of design approvals procurement construction testing commissioning and handover activities
• Independently monitor actual progress against approved planned progress
• Perform critical path float schedule variance and trend analyses
• Validate Contractor-reported progress against actual site conditions and verified accomplishments
• Identify delays programme risks trends and potential impacts on key milestones
• Review Contractor recovery programmes and mitigation measures
• Review and monitor Contractor look-ahead schedules
• Monitor design and procurement activities that may impact construction progress
• Monitor interfaces dependencies and constraints between project packages and stakeholders
• Develop PMC planning dashboards progress curves schedule reports and management updates
• Support the assessment and review of Extension of Time EOT submissions
• Coordinate programme information with Construction Commercial Contracts Engineering and other project functions
• Forecast project completion dates and key project milestones based on current performance and trends
• Monitor testing commissioning handover and close-out milestones
• Provide independent programme assessments recommendations and early warnings to the Client
• Support project planning meetings and communicate key schedule issues and recommendations to project stakeholders

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 22 years of total professional experience.
• 10 12 years of experience in similar planning/scheduling roles.
• 8 12 years of GCC/KSA experience.
• Strong experience in PMC or engineering consultancy environments providing independent programme oversight is preferred.
• Proven experience on infrastructure D&B, major urban development, or mixed-use development projects.
• Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6 and project scheduling principles.
• Strong understanding of baseline management, critical path analysis, float analysis, progress measurement, delay analysis, and schedule forecasting.
• Experience reviewing Contractor programmes, recovery schedules, look-ahead programmes, and EOT submissions.
• Strong understanding of design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities and their schedule interfaces.
• Excellent analytical, reporting, communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• Saudi Arabia/GCC project experience is strongly preferred.