Senior Schedular (Planner) - Siemens Energy, Riyadh KSA

Siemens Energy; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Opportunities to work on diverse, high

Projects

Job summary

Siemens Energy in Riyadh is seeking a Senior Scheduler/Planning Engineer to establish, integrate, and control complex project schedules for large gas-fired power plant projects. You will provide schedule intelligence across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, construction, commissioning, and handover, enabling timely decisions and milestone protection.

The role requires 8+ years of planning experience, advanced Primavera P6 skills, and strong communication abilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a comparable technical discipline (advanced degree preferred).
• Minimum 8 years of project planning and scheduling experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 with strong critical-path analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain integrated project schedules for large gas-fired power plant projects.
• Perform critical-path analysis, progress validation, forecasting, and schedule risk assessment.
• Coordinate recovery planning and look-ahead milestones with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with Project Directors, engineering, EPC customers, and site teams to ensure schedule integrity.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/technical discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa are becoming Omterra. \"We energize society\" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

About the Role

Job ID

306813

Location

Riyadh

Company

Organization

Gas Services

Business Unit

Central

Full-time

Experience Level

Professional / Experienced

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Senior Scheduler / Senior Planning Engineer , you will establish, integrate, maintain, and control reliable project schedules for large and complex gas-fired power plant projects, including open-cycle and combined-cycle applications. You will provide transparent schedule intelligence across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, construction, commissioning, and handover, enabling project management to make timely decisions and protect contractual milestones. You will work closely with Project Directors and Managers, engineering, site and commissioning teams, EPC customers, and central project controls functions. The role combines detailed schedule development with critical-path analysis, progress validation, forecasting, change control, risk assessment, and executive reporting. You will challenge assumptions constructively, identify emerging delays early, and coordinate practical recovery measures while maintaining a single, auditable schedule.

How You’ll Make an Impact

Integrated Schedule Development and Governance

• Develop and maintain the integrated Level 1 to Level 4 project schedule and the schedule management plan from project handover through commercial operation, warranty transition, and closeout.
• Translate contract requirements, scope, deliverables, and milestone obligations into a logically linked schedule with clear calendars, coding structures, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria.
• Integrate schedules for gas turbine, steam turbine, generators, and where required, HRSG, auxiliaries, balance of plant, electrical, I&C, civil works, grid connection, fuel gas systems, and site infrastructure, as applicable to the project scope.
• Establish and control the approved baseline, schedule hierarchy, work breakdown structure, milestone dictionary, progress measurement rules, and cut-off calendar.
• Ensure alignment between the master schedule and detailed engineering, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, construction, commissioning, and outage or tie-in schedules.
• Apply relevant Project Excellence, project controls, and quality requirements.

Progress Control, Forecasting, and Performance Analysis

• Lead the periodic schedule update cycle, collect status from accountable work-package owners, and verify actual dates, remaining durations, physical progress, and forecast completion dates.
• Perform critical-path and near-critical-path analysis, total and free float assessment, milestone trend analysis, and schedule quality checks.
• Identify slippage, constraints, interface gaps, and unrealistic logic early; quantify schedule exposure and communicate the business and contractual impact.
• Develop credible look-ahead plans, milestone forecasts, schedule narratives, and variance explanations for project reviews and customer reporting.
• Maintain schedule dashboards and key indicators, including critical milestones, float erosion, progress variance, forecast accuracy, and recovery action status.
• Validate that reported progress is supported by objective evidence and consistent with cost, resource, procurement, manufacturing, and site data.

Recovery Planning, Risk, and Change Management

• Facilitate schedule risk workshops and support qualitative and quantitative schedule risk analysis, including scenario and sensitivity assessments where required.
• Coordinate recovery and acceleration planning with workstream owners; test options, dependencies, resource impacts, and achievable completion scenarios.
• Assess the time impact of design changes, late information, supplier delays, site constraints, customer actions, and contractual variations.
• Maintain schedule assumptions, constraints, risks, opportunities, and change logs, with traceability to the approved baseline and current forecast.
• Provide schedule substantiation for extension-of-time, delay, disruption, and change-order evaluations in cooperation with contract and claim management, without replacing their commercial accountability.
• Support lessons learned and implemented improvements in planning methods, templates, coding, and reporting standards.

Gas Power Plant and Interface Planning

• Monitor key execution interfaces among OEM scope, EPC or consortium scope, customer obligations, and local contractors.
• Coordinate schedule logic for major equipment manufacturing, factory tests, heavy-lift transport, site readiness, erection, system turnover, energization, first fire, synchronization, reliability run, and commercial operation.
• Ensure commissioning sequence and system turnover logic are integrated with construction completion, punch-list management, permits, temporary facilities, grid availability, and fuel readiness jointly with TFA and TCA.
• Support resource and capability planning through schedule-based manpower histograms and demand forecasts for engineering, field service, commissioning, and specialist resources.

Stakeholder Communication and Reporting

• Act as the focal point for schedule governance and provide clear, fact-based advice to project leadership and workstream owners.
• Prepare and present schedule status for internal reviews, customer meetings, steering committees, and partner coordination forums.
• Promote ownership, accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement across the project organization.

Tools and Data Quality

• Administer and maintain project schedules primarily in Primavera P6; use Microsoft Project and approved reporting or analytics tools where appropriate.
• Maintain schedule data quality, controlled access, version history, backups, and auditable reporting cut-offs.
• Develop efficient schedule reports and data interfaces with project reporting, cost, risk, document, procurement, and resource-management systems.

Reporting Relationships

• Reports functionally to the Head of PMO and works operationally with the assigned Project Director or Project Manager.
• Acts as an individual contributor and may provide functional guidance, coaching, and quality review to project planners and schedule contributors.
• Works across project teams in KSA and interfaces with global engineering, manufacturing, project management, and field organizations.
• Key interfaces include Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Site Management, Commissioning, Risk Management, Contract & Claim Management, customers, or consortium partners.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a comparable technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in project planning and scheduling, particularly in large engineering or EPC projects.
• Demonstrated experience with gas-fired power plants, especially combined-cycle projects.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, including schedule architecture and critical-path analysis.
• Strong analytical, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to challenge senior stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel to project sites and work effectively in a multicultural environment.

About the Team

Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

• Competitive Salary Package
• Opportunities to work on a variety of innovative projects