Senior Planning Engineer

Snc-Lavalin; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Life insurance

Medical insurance

Annual leave

Company gratuity

Discretionary bonus

Annual flight allowance

Housing allowances

Wellbeing program

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia seeks a Senior Planning Engineer with a strong background in infrastructure projects. You will lead project planning activities, develop detailed schedules, and drive schedule performance across stakeholders, including clients, contractors, and site teams.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in planning & controls, a Civil Engineering degree, PMP certification, and proven Saudi Arabia project experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of planning and controls experience on infrastructure projects.
• Saudi Arabia experience on large-scale infrastructure projects preferred.
• Degree in Civil Engineering and PMP certification required.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 or MS Project.
• Create resource-loaded and cost-loaded schedules aligned with budgets and manpower planning.
• Track progress with S-curves, histograms, and KPIs; report deviations with recovery plans.

Skills

Planning & Scheduling

Risk Analysis

Stakeholder Mgmt

PM Process Improvement

Education

Civil Engineering Degree

PMP Certified

Project Controls Certifications

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Excel

Job description

Job Description Overview

AtkinsRéalis is looking for a Senior Planning Engineer, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Senior Planning Engineer, must have a minimum of 10 years’ management experience, ensure that the project management function operates efficiently across the Consultant’s organization and with external stakeholders. The role requires strong KSA experience, with a solid background in infrastructure projects including roads, highways, utilities, bridges, rail, and other major civil infrastructure developments.

Your role

Project Planning and Scheduling. Develop, implement, and maintain detailed project schedules using tools like Primavera P6 or MS Project. Create resource-loaded and cost-loaded schedules to ensure alignment with budget forecasts and manpower planning. Track project progress against baseline schedules, prepare S-curves, histograms, and other KPIs, and report deviations with recovery plans. Conduct schedule analysis to identify delay causes, assess critical path impacts, and support Extension of Time (EOT) claims. Collaborate with project managers, site engineers, subcontractors, contractors, and clients to gather data, validate progress, and ensure schedule adherence. Analyze project risks related to scheduling and propose mitigation strategies to avoid delays and disruptions. Ensure all planning activities comply with contractual and regulatory requirements, maintaining accurate records for audits and closeouts. Conduct regular site inspections to verify actual progress against planned activities and adjust schedules accordingly. Utilize advanced planning tools like Primavera P6, MS Project, and Excel for schedule development, updates, and reporting. Recommend improvements to planning processes, adopt new tools, and stay updated on industry best practices and methodologies.

About you

With at least 10 years of experience in Planning and Controls with a strong PMC background. Extensive infrastructure project experience including roads, highways, bridges, utilities, rail, airports, and other major civil works. Must have a Degree in Civil Engineering; PMP Certified and other Project Controls related certifications. Must have good experience working in Saudi Arabia, preferably on large-scale infrastructure projects.

Rewards & benefits

This includes:

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation & housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

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.

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences. Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.