Senior Planning/ Project Control Engineer

Arbete Careers; Riyad Al Khabra; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Planning/Project Control Engineer responsible for building project baselines, maintaining schedules, and analyzing trends. You will collaborate with stakeholders, manage reporting, and ensure project timeline transparency. This role demands a strong background in engineering or project management, alongside solid risk management skills.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified either in engineering or project management discipline.

Responsibilities

• Builds project baselines and maintains project schedule.
• Analyses schedule trends and communicates forecasted risks.
• Produces internal and external project reporting.

Skills

Project Management

Schedule Analysis

Risk Mitigation

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Degree in Engineering or Project Management

Job description

About the job Senior Planning/ Project Control Engineer

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Builds project baselines and gains approval of client and internal stakeholders
• Maintains project schedule and resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycle
• Analyses schedule and trends and communicate forecasted schedule risk to project team, drives risk mitigation proposals
• Checks and controls schedule movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.
• Also compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of future task durations
• Ensures that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners
• Produces and communicates internal and external project reporting of project status
• Collaborates with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register
• Presents all time schedule data in a transparent way, attends project and management reviews to present schedule status
• Interface with the project management team and all key stakeholders.
• Manage the weekly and monthly progress report protocols / templates for progress reporting and monitoring progress against it.
• Manage the preparation of weekly and monthly progress reports/presentations for the client.
• Assisting in establishing / delivering formal reporting arrangements on project progress for the client and project.
• Prepare project advice for any site progress / planning concern that may impact site progress.
• Prepare and manage the daily escalation report for project managers.
• Overseeing the preparation of risk assessments and mitigation plans.

Educational Requirements:

• Degree qualified either in engineering or project management discipline