Senior Planner

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and assess Contractor baseline and updated programmes for compliance with project requirements.
• Verify integration of design, approvals, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Independently monitor actual progress against approved planned progress.
• Perform critical path, float, schedule variance, and trend analyses.
• Validate Contractor-reported progress against actual site conditions and verified accomplishments.
• Identify delays, programme risks, trends, and potential impacts on key milestones.
• Review Contractor recovery programmes and mitigation measures.
• Review and monitor Contractor look-ahead schedules.
• Monitor design and procurement activities that may impact construction progress.
• Monitor interfaces, dependencies, and constraints between project packages and stakeholders.
• Develop PMC planning dashboards, progress curves, schedule reports, and management updates.
• Support the assessment and review of Extension of Time (EOT) submissions.
• Coordinate programme information with Construction, Commercial, Contracts, Engineering, and other project functions.
• Forecast project completion dates and key project milestones based on current performance and trends.
• Monitor testing, commissioning, handover, and close-out milestones.
• Provide independent programme assessments, recommendations, and early warnings to the Client.
• Support project planning meetings and communicate key schedule issues and recommendations to project stakeholders.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15–22 years of total professional experience.
• 10–12 years of experience in similar planning/scheduling roles.
• 8–12 years of GCC/KSA experience.
• Strong experience in PMC or engineering consultancy environments providing independent programme oversight is preferred.
• Proven experience on infrastructure D&B, major urban development, or mixed-use development projects.
• Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6 and project scheduling principles.
• Strong understanding of baseline management, critical path analysis, float analysis, progress measurement, delay analysis, and schedule forecasting.
• Experience reviewing Contractor programmes, recovery schedules, look-ahead programmes, and EOT submissions.
• Strong understanding of design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities and their schedule interfaces.
• Excellent analytical, reporting, communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• Saudi Arabia/GCC project experience is strongly preferred.