Junior Planner - SAUDI NATIONAL - PMC

Saudi Arabia  |  Permanent

Our Multi National project management consultancy client has a new requirement for a junior planning / project controls engineer to join their team in Riyadh, KSA to work on new build, fit our and refurbishment projects. Successful candidates will be keen to develop and grow their career in planning and project controls. At the request of the client, we can only consider Saudi Nationals for this role.

This role is available for immediate joining and is a direct hire, permanent placement with our client.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure proactive project planning, stakeholder relations, and risk management takes place across projects
• Prepare and update the Programme-wide enterprise schedules of all running & future projects in Primavera P6 Professional or Enterprise.
• Monitor a schedule of planned resources required to deliver the project.
• Check the resources against the fee to ensure they balance forecast.
• Create and review tender Schedules during bidding phases.
• Create and review baselines, recovery/revised and updated periodic schedules.
• Review Project Managers/ Resident Engineer's weekly reports and provide Schedule inputs as required
• Incorporate additional works into Schedules as required and update / maintain additional works logs.
• Review and manage contractors Schedules
• Regularly review resource usage against the schedule and recommend/take corrective action where required.
• Establish Issue Register and follow-up issue's impacting the project's schedule.
• Generate detailed and executive summary reports for higher management.
• Monitor and analyze progress & efficiency of each project and report to supervisors and managers
• Maintain a database of projects progress
• Assist in the review and preparation of documents to support claims management and in particular extensions of time.
• Present on all the above to Clients and internal managers

Junior Planner Experience:

• B.Sc degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• Prior experience in working as part of a large, multi national team would be beneficial.
• Planning of Professional Services (Engineering and consultancy services);
• 1+ years of experience in planning, project controls and cost engineering
• Certification in planning and scheduling of projects and in using Primavera applications (Primavera Project Management / P6 and Primavera Contract Management / Expedition) would be beneficial
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to handle complex situations with professionalism and confidentiality

Interested candidates are invited to share their up to date CV and details directly to jobs@j10consulting.ae for further review and process

Date Posted: 05 Sep 2023

Status: Filled