Lead Planner

• Own schedule reporting and set the reporting cycle for the closeout portfolio.
• Establish planning standards, coding requirements, and schedule templates.
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules for demobilization, preservation, and closeout.
• Prepare schedule forecasts, covering milestones, activities, and closure dates.
• Perform critical path analysis, float analysis, and schedule health assessments.
• Lead schedule review meetings with project, construction, and stakeholder teams.
• Assess schedule updates for accuracy, logic, and reported progress.
• Combine contract schedules into a portfolio view, identifying cross-contract dependencies.
• Identify schedule slippage, constraints, and forecast changes, and their impact on closeout objectives.
• Provide schedule substantiation for claims, disputes, and final account reviews.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Minimum 20 years of planning and scheduling experience, with 10 years in major projects in Saudi Arabia/GCC.
• Experience on mega-projects with multi-billion SAR portfolios and a high volume of contracts.
• Expertise in schedule development, review, forecasting, critical path analysis, and progress measurement.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• PMP, PMI-SP, PSP, AACE, or similar certification is preferred.
• Forensic planning and delay analysis experience is desirable.
• Owner, IPMT, PMC, or major program experience is an asset.
• Expertise in Primavera P6 and advanced Microsoft Excel is mandatory.
• Power BI development and report usage is preferred.
• Strong command of PowerPoint, Aconex, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365.