Senior Schedule Lead: Closeout & Portfolio Planning

AimGulf; Neom; Hybrid; SAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Lead Planner in Saudi Arabia to own scheduling for the closeout portfolio. The role sets schedule standards, develops demobilization and preservation schedules, and leads schedule reviews to support closeout decisions.

Responsibilities include producing forecasts, conducting critical path analysis, and delivering executive dashboards for progress and milestones. Significant multi-billion SAR portfolio exposure and senior stakeholder engagement are involved.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in schedule development, review, forecasting, critical path analysis, progress measurement, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own schedule reporting across the portfolio and set status, update, review, and reporting cycle.
• Set planning standards, coding requirements, schedule templates, calendars, reporting cut-offs, and quality checks.
• Develop and maintain integrated demobilization, preservation, termination, and closeout schedules.
• Prepare schedule forecasts covering milestones, remaining activities, contract interfaces, handovers, preservation periods, and closure dates.
• Perform critical path, near-critical path, float, logic, constraint, and schedule health analysis.
• Develop S-curves, milestone trends, progress curves, schedule narratives, and executive planning dashboards.
• Lead schedule review meetings with project, construction, commercial, procurement, contractor, consultant, and stakeholder teams.
• Assess schedule updates for completeness, logic, status accuracy, sequencing, and support for reported progress.
• Combine contract and workstream schedules into a portfolio view and identify cross-contract dependencies.
• Identify slippage, constraints, missed milestones, and forecast changes, and explain the effect on closeout objectives.
• Provide schedule substantiation for claims, disputes, settlement discussions, and final account reviews.
• Lead planning inputs to weekly and monthly reports, demobilization reports, closeout reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Support the Project Controls Manager in portfolio reviews and senior stakeholder discussions.

Skills

Schedule review

Schedule forecasting

Critical path analysis

Progress measurement

Schedule reporting

S-curve analysis

Milestone tracking

Contract interfaces

Handover coordination

Schedule health analysis

Schedule substantiation

Claims resolution

Final account reviews

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Lead Planner in Saudi Arabia to own scheduling for the closeout portfolio. The role sets schedule standards, develops demobilization and preservation schedules, and leads schedule reviews to support closeout decisions.

Responsibilities include producing forecasts, conducting critical path analysis, and delivering executive dashboards for progress and milestones. Significant multi-billion SAR portfolio exposure and senior stakeholder engagement are involved.