Senior Scheduling Manager - Project Controls (Construction)

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 468,720 - 691,920; Full time

Job summary

Parsons in Riyadh is seeking a Scheduling Manager – Project Controls to lead Level1–Level4 schedules, integrate master schedules, and drive earned value analysis across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning.

You will provide reliable schedule insights, support recovery plans, and participate in weekly and monthly progress reviews with project teams and clients. This senior role requires deep experience in planning, controls, and stakeholder coordination on complex projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field.
• 15+ years of related project controls, planning, and scheduling experience on large‑scale projects.
• Previous experience as a Planning Manager, Scheduling Manager, or Scheduling Lead.
• Strong experience performing, monitoring, and reviewing schedule development, control, progress analysis, and forecasting.
• Experience coordinating schedules across multidisciplinary teams, contractors, consultants, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Establish planning and scheduling standards, procedures, coding structures, calendars, WBS, CBS, reporting formats, and governance controls.
• Develop, integrate, and maintain Level1–Level4 schedules and the Integrated Master Schedule.
• Ensure schedules contain robust logic, clear dependencies, valid interfaces, accurate milestones, and realistic activity sequencing.
• Prepare detailed schedules with activity‑level resource loading, cost loading, progress rules, and measurable deliverables.
• Implement deliverable‑based progress measurement methods and coordinate with discipline leads for regular schedule updates.
• Apply earned value management techniques to assess schedule performance, cost performance, progress trends, and delivery efficiency.
• Maintain bi‑weekly earned value analysis dashboards at project and sector level.
• Review, check, and evaluate contractor and consultant schedules against contract requirements and approved procedures.
• Monitor work progress, compare actual performance against approved programmes, and report key findings to the Project Director and Project Controls Manager.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports covering schedule status, performance trends, risks, milestones, variance analysis, and recovery actions.
• Lead the review and finalisation of contractor and design‑consultant baseline schedules and recovery schedules.
• Assess schedule submissions for logic quality, critical path validity, float use, milestone compliance, resource loading, and contractual alignment.
• Lead schedule risk assessments and quantify impacts on milestones, contingency, interfaces, and delivery commitments.

Skills

Planning and scheduling

Project controls

Integrated Master Schedule

Level1–Level4 schedules

WBS & CBS

Schedule coding

Baseline and recovery schedule review

Resource‑loaded scheduling

Earned‑value management

Progress reporting

Look‑ahead planning

Stakeholder management

Microsoft Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Parsons in Riyadh is seeking a Scheduling Manager – Project Controls to lead Level1–Level4 schedules, integrate master schedules, and drive earned value analysis across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning.

You will provide reliable schedule insights, support recovery plans, and participate in weekly and monthly progress reviews with project teams and clients. This senior role requires deep experience in planning, controls, and stakeholder coordination on complex projects.