Senior Planning Engineer

KEO International Consultants; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design and project management firm in Riyadh is seeking a Senior Planning Engineer with 15 years of experience. The successful candidate will coordinate with project teams, monitor progress, and ensure compliance with contractual requirements on large scale mixed-use projects, particularly luxury hotels. The role offers opportunities for professional development in a supportive work environment with hybrid arrangements and extensive benefits.

Benefits

Hybrid working arrangements

Employee referral rewards

Mentoring and coaching programs

Qualifications

• 15 years of work experience required.
• Experience on large scale mixed use projects, including luxury hotels.

Responsibilities

• Implement commercial/contractual matters.
• Coordinate with project managers, consultants, and contractors.
• Monitor progress against the baseline schedule.
• Attend project meetings and provide planning inputs.
• Ensure compliance with contractual and best practice requirements.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Effective communication

Project scheduling

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 57th largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards, mentoring and coaching programs and extensive in-house on demand learning courses.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Planning Engineer to join our project in Riyadh .

We envisage success in this role to include;

• Operating to implement commercial/contractual matters within a multi-disciplinary team.


• Coordinating with project managers, consultants, and contractors to align the schedule with project milestones and deliverables.


• Monitoring progress against the baseline schedule and prepare weekly and monthly progress reports.


• Attending project meetings and provide inputs on planning, sequencing, and scheduling.


• Ensuring that planning and scheduling activities comply with contractual requirements and industry best practices.


• Supporting risk management and mitigation planning.


• Performing analysis on project variations and changes, prepare project reports, analyze information for adjustments to project budget as necessary to assure a successful project for the client and the firm.


• Acting to measure works on site and from drawings including competence with electronic measurement systems.


• Processing and interpreting contract conditions.


• Understanding, identifying and assessing project risks.


• Communicating effectively, both verbal and written communication.


• Knowledge of Standard Method of Measurement of construction works.

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include 15 years work experience partnered with a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

You will have worked on various large scale mixed use projects that include luxury hotels, and the associated works that would be needed to support such assets.

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award‑winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.