Operations and Maintenance Planning Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop annual, monthly, weekly and daily maintenance schedules for dam assets.
• Prepare preventive, predictive, corrective, emergency and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Convert approved maintenance requirements into detailed work packages and executable schedules.
• Define activity sequences, durations, dependencies, milestones and resource requirements.
• Integrate civil, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, instrumentation and control-system maintenance activities.
• Schedule contractor maintenance activities and coordinate implementation with relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare two-week and four-week look-ahead schedules.
• Coordinate planned shutdowns, equipment isolation, testing, restart and return-to-service activities.
• Optimize maintenance schedules to minimize operational disruption and asset downtime.
• Ensure critical and safety-related maintenance activities receive appropriate priority.
• Monitor maintenance backlogs and recommend actions to address overdue work.
• Review contractors’ baseline schedules, detailed work programs, schedule updates and recovery plans.
• Verify that contractors’ schedules align with contractual milestones and approved O&M plans.
• Review schedule logic, calendars, activity durations, constraints and critical paths.
• Monitor actual progress and compare performance with approved baselines.
• Identify delays, schedule slippage, resource shortages and emerging delivery risks.
• Perform critical-path, float and schedule-impact analyses.
• Assess the scheduling impact of variations, equipment failures, access restrictions and technical changes.
• Recommend recovery measures, alternative work sequences and resource adjustments.
• Monitor the implementation and effectiveness of approved recovery plans.
• Maintain integrated schedules for O&M, repair, rehabilitation and improvement projects.
• Establish progress-measurement methods, rules and reporting procedures.
• Define weighted activities, work breakdown structures and measurable completion criteria.
• Verify reported progress against field evidence, completed quantities and approved records.
• Prepare planned-versus-actual performance analyses.
• Develop progress curves, milestone trackers, resource histograms and schedule dashboards.
• Monitor schedule and maintenance KPIs, including:
• Planned maintenance compliance
• Work-order completion
• Schedule adherence
• Maintenance backlog
• Critical-path performance
• Equipment downtime
• Contractor productivity
• Forecast completion dates
• Prepare schedule and decision-support reports for the Dams Sector.
• Forecast future workloads, resource demand, equipment needs and expected completion dates.
• Highlight critical activities, delayed milestones, operational risks and required management actions.
• Maintain accurate records supporting schedule updates and progress assessments.
• Coordinate labour, materials, spare parts, tools, equipment and access requirements.
• Confirm that resources are available before scheduled work begins.
• Work with Procurement and Stores teams to monitor long-lead materials and critical spare parts.
• Coordinate with engineers, technicians, contractors, operators and permit authorities.
• Participate in planning, progress, coordination and performance-review meetings.
• Follow up assigned actions and ensure schedule-related issues are resolved promptly.
• Support the evaluation of contractor staffing, productivity and schedule performance.
• Reporting and Compliance
• Prepare clear daily, weekly, monthly, annual and technical reports as required by the assignment.
• Present schedule performance, forecasts, delays and recovery recommendations to management.
• Coordinate with government stakeholders, consultants, contractors and multidisciplinary teams.
• Attend meetings, inspections and site visits anywhere in Saudi Arabia as required.
• Comply with Saudi laws, applicable codes, Client procedures, quality requirements and occupational health and safety obligations.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent relevant discipline from a recognized university.
• PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) certification or an equivalent internationally recognized planning and scheduling qualification.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in planning and scheduling.
• Demonstrated experience planning O&M, maintenance, infrastructure or asset-intensive projects.
• Advanced practical capability in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office and SAP maintenance planning.
• Experience developing baseline, integrated, detailed and look-ahead schedules.
• Strong knowledge of progress measurement, critical-path analysis, forecasting and recovery planning.
• Experience reviewing contractor schedules and validating reported progress.
• Understanding of preventive, predictive, corrective and emergency maintenance processes.
• Ability to interpret engineering scopes, technical documents, maintenance requirements and contractual milestones.
• Strong analytical, reporting, communication and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Relevant experience must be supported by verifiable employment records, project references, schedules or reports when requested.