Strategic Lead Planner - Mega-Project Closeout & Scheduling

Jacobs Solutions Inc.; Neom; Hybrid; SAR 600,000 - 960,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs Solutions Inc. is seeking a Lead Planner to own planning and schedule reporting for a closeout portfolio. You will set standards, develop demobilization and closeout schedules, and lead reviews with diverse teams to support decisions.

Required are extensive experience in schedule development, forecasting, and critical path analytics across mega-projects in Saudi Arabia/GCC. The role emphasizes governance, dashboards, and executive reporting in a hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of planning and scheduling experience.
• 10+ years on major projects in Saudi Arabia and/or the GCC.
• Experience on mega-projects or mixed-use programs with multi-billion SAR portfolios.
• Substantial experience in schedule development, review, forecasting, critical path analysis, progress measurement and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own schedule reporting across the portfolio and manage the status, updates, reviews 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 and closure dates.
• Perform critical path, near-critical path, float, logic and schedule health analysis.
• Develop S-curves, milestones trends, progress curves, narratives and dashboards.
• Lead schedule review meetings with project, construction, commercial, procurement, contractor, consultant and stakeholder teams.
• Assess schedule updates for completeness, logic, status accuracy and sequencing.
• Combine contract and workstream schedules into a portfolio view and identify cross-contract dependencies.
• Identify slippage and forecast changes and explain effects on closeout objectives.
• Provide schedule substantiation for claims, disputes and final account reviews.
• Lead inputs to weekly and monthly reports, demobilization and closeout reports, dashboards and presentations.
• Support the Project Controls Manager in portfolio reviews and senior stakeholder discussions.

Skills

Scheduling

Critical path analysis

Portfolio planning

Forecasting

Schedule reporting

Stakeholder coordination

Job description

Jacobs Solutions Inc. is seeking a Lead Planner to own planning and schedule reporting for a closeout portfolio. You will set standards, develop demobilization and closeout schedules, and lead reviews with diverse teams to support decisions.

Required are extensive experience in schedule development, forecasting, and critical path analytics across mega-projects in Saudi Arabia/GCC. The role emphasizes governance, dashboards, and executive reporting in a hybrid working model.