Senior Planner - Project Scheduling

Parsons; Tabuk; On-site; SAR 334,800 - 502,200; Full time

Job summary

Parsons in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia is seeking a Senior Planner - Project Scheduling to lead the development and control of fully integrated master schedules for major infrastructure programmes. The role requires extensive experience with Primavera P6, CPM scheduling, and earned value management across complex packages.

The Senior Planner will guide project lifecycle scheduling, coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, and client representatives, and deliver executive reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in project planning and scheduling.
• Extensive involvement in large construction, infrastructure, or international mega‑project programmes.
• Expert proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• Experience with Tilos or Acumen Fuse is highly desirable.
• Deep understanding of Critical Path Method scheduling and schedule logic.
• Strong knowledge of construction methodologies, sequencing, and resource planning.
• Experience developing and controlling integrated master schedules.
• Practical understanding of resource loading, cost loading, and resource leveling.
• Strong exposure to earned value management and project controls integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation and maintenance of fully integrated Master Project Schedules.
• Develop detailed baseline programmes using Primavera P6 and approved scheduling procedures.
• Define activity logic, relationships, calendars, constraints, durations, and project milestones.
• Confirm that engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover activities are correctly sequenced.
• Review contractor schedules for technical quality, contractual compliance, and achievable delivery logic.
• Perform advanced Critical Path Method analysis.
• Identify critical and near-critical activities that may affect programme completion.
• Conduct schedule variance analysis against approved baselines.
• Evaluate actual progress, remaining duration, productivity, and forecast completion dates.
• Perform forensic delay analysis when required to understand the causes and impacts of slippage.
• Develop recovery schedules and acceleration strategies for delayed work packages.
• Assess contractor mitigation proposals and confirm whether planned measures are realistic.
• Conduct quantitative schedule risk analysis to evaluate uncertainty around key milestones.
• Maintain schedule risk registers and recommend practical mitigation actions.
• Coordinate with cost engineering teams to align schedules with budgets and financial milestones.
• Support resource loading, cost loading, and earned value management integration.
• Review planned value, earned value, schedule performance, and productivity indicators.
• Ensure schedule information supports project cash‑flow forecasts and management reporting.
• Facilitate planning workshops with clients, contractors, consultants, and engineering teams.
• Obtain stakeholder agreement on sequencing, interfaces, access requirements, and key dates.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary planning inputs across civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and utility scopes.
• Review technical drawings, specifications, and construction methodologies to validate planned sequencing.
• Identify unrealistic logic, missing scope, interface gaps, and resource conflicts.
• Monitor contractor milestones and elevate emerging schedule risks promptly.
• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule updates and progress reports.
• Develop executive dashboards, milestone summaries, variance reports, and performance presentations.
• Explain complex schedule data clearly to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate schedule narratives, assumptions, progress records, and change histories.
• Support assessment of extension of time requests and contractor delay submissions.
• Provide schedule evidence for contractual reviews, claims analysis, and commercial decisions.
• Use Microsoft Project when required for supplementary schedules and management plans.
• Apply Tilos for linear scheduling or Acumen Fuse for schedule quality analysis where available.
• Review schedule quality against recognized planning and controls practices.
• Mentor junior planners and review their schedules, reports, and analyses.
• Establish consistent planning methods, templates, coding structures, and reporting cycles.
• Encourage accountability and timely progress reporting across delivery teams.
• Manage multiple high‑priority planning tasks without compromising accuracy.
• Support project leadership with strategic advice on programme risk and delivery options.
• Perform additional planning and project controls responsibilities assigned by management.

Skills

Master scheduling

Primavera P6

Critical Path Method

Earned Value Management

MS Project

Scheduling analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Project

Tilos

Acumen Fuse

Job description

Senior Planner - Project Scheduling

Location: Tabuk, Saudi Arabia | Industry: Construction | Function: Production-Operations Planning | Minimum Experience: 15 years | Job Type: Full-time

Job Overview

Senior Planner - Project Scheduling in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia is a Construction hiring opportunity for an accomplished planning professional with extensive experience developing and controlling integrated schedules for major infrastructure programmes. The role leads master scheduling, critical path analysis, delay evaluation, schedule risk assessment, earned value integration, executive reporting, and recovery planning across complex project packages.

Job Details

• Country: Saudi Arabia
• City: Tabuk
• Industry: Construction
• Function: Production-Operations Planning
• Salary: 30000-45000
• Gender: Any
• Candidate Nationality: Any
• Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Senior Planner provides strategic schedule leadership throughout the project lifecycle, from baseline development through construction completion and close-out. The position ensures that engineering, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities are logically sequenced, properly resourced, and aligned with contractual milestones. Working with project management, cost engineering, contractors, designers, and client representatives, the Senior Planner identifies schedule threats, evaluates performance trends, and develops practical mitigation or recovery strategies. The role also provides technical guidance to junior planners and supports executive decisions with accurate, evidence-based schedule information.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation and maintenance of fully integrated Master Project Schedules.
• Develop detailed baseline programmes using Primavera P6 and approved scheduling procedures.
• Define activity logic, relationships, calendars, constraints, durations, and project milestones.
• Confirm that engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover activities are correctly sequenced.
• Review contractor schedules for technical quality, contractual compliance, and achievable delivery logic.
• Perform advanced Critical Path Method analysis.
• Identify critical and near-critical activities that may affect programme completion.
• Conduct schedule variance analysis against approved baselines.
• Evaluate actual progress, remaining duration, productivity, and forecast completion dates.
• Perform forensic delay analysis when required to understand the causes and impacts of slippage.
• Develop recovery schedules and acceleration strategies for delayed work packages.
• Assess contractor mitigation proposals and confirm whether planned measures are realistic.
• Conduct quantitative schedule risk analysis to evaluate uncertainty around key milestones.
• Maintain schedule risk registers and recommend practical mitigation actions.
• Coordinate with cost engineering teams to align schedules with budgets and financial milestones.
• Support resource loading, cost loading, and earned value management integration.
• Review planned value, earned value, schedule performance, and productivity indicators.
• Ensure schedule information supports project cash‑flow forecasts and management reporting.
• Facilitate planning workshops with clients, contractors, consultants, and engineering teams.
• Obtain stakeholder agreement on sequencing, interfaces, access requirements, and key dates.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary planning inputs across civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and utility scopes.
• Review technical drawings, specifications, and construction methodologies to validate planned sequencing.
• Identify unrealistic logic, missing scope, interface gaps, and resource conflicts.
• Monitor contractor milestones and elevate emerging schedule risks promptly.
• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule updates and progress reports.
• Develop executive dashboards, milestone summaries, variance reports, and performance presentations.
• Explain complex schedule data clearly to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate schedule narratives, assumptions, progress records, and change histories.
• Support assessment of extension of time requests and contractor delay submissions.
• Provide schedule evidence for contractual reviews, claims analysis, and commercial decisions.
• Use Microsoft Project when required for supplementary schedules and management plans.
• Apply Tilos for linear scheduling or Acumen Fuse for schedule quality analysis where available.
• Review schedule quality against recognized planning and controls practices.
• Mentor junior planners and review their schedules, reports, and analyses.
• Establish consistent planning methods, templates, coding structures, and reporting cycles.
• Encourage accountability and timely progress reporting across delivery teams.
• Manage multiple high‑priority planning tasks without compromising accuracy.
• Support project leadership with strategic advice on programme risk and delivery options.
• Perform additional planning and project controls responsibilities assigned by management.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in project planning and scheduling.
• Extensive involvement in large construction, infrastructure, or international mega‑project programmes.
• Expert proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• Experience with Tilos or Acumen Fuse is highly desirable.
• Deep understanding of Critical Path Method scheduling and schedule logic.
• Strong knowledge of construction methodologies, sequencing, and resource planning.
• Experience developing and controlling integrated master schedules.
• Practical understanding of resource loading, cost loading, and resource leveling.
• Strong exposure to earned value management and project controls integration.
• Experience performing forensic delay analysis and schedule impact assessments.
• Knowledge of quantitative schedule risk analysis techniques.
• Ability to review technical drawings and validate construction sequencing.
• Professional credentials such as PMP or PSP are preferred.
• Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem‑solving ability.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Confident presentation skills for clients, senior management, and executive stakeholders.
• Proven ability to mentor junior planners and guide multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast‑paced project environment.
• Willingness to work on major project assignments in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

Skills Set

• Project planning
• Project scheduling
• Primavera P6
• Microsoft Project
• Tilos
• Acumen Fuse
• Master Project Schedule
• Baseline schedule development
• Critical Path Method
• Critical path analysis
• Forensic delay analysis
• Schedule variance analysis
• Recovery planning
• Acceleration planning
• Quantitative schedule risk analysis
• Resource loading
• Cost loading
• Resource leveling
• Earned Value Management
• Schedule performance reporting
• Progress measurement
• Productivity analysis
• Construction sequencing
• Infrastructure planning
• Contractor schedule review
• Extension of time support
• Executive dashboards
• Monthly progress reporting
• Planning workshops
• Junior planner mentoring

Why Join Us

This position offers a senior planning professional the opportunity to influence delivery strategy on major infrastructure programmes in Tabuk’s expanding Construction market. The role provides responsibility for programme controls, delay analysis, risk assessment, contractor performance, recovery planning, and executive reporting. Parsons provides exposure to complex project environments, multidisciplinary technical teams, and advanced project controls practices. The successful candidate can contribute at a strategic level while developing future planning professionals and supporting reliable delivery of high‑profile Saudi Arabian projects.