Senior Planning Manager

Saudi Arabia  |  Permanent

Our global Engineering consultancy client has a new requirement for a well experienced consultant Senior Planning Manager to join their team in Riyadh, KSA at a high profile project. Successful candidates will have a proven background as a Senior Planning Manager on large scale civil construction projects in KSA and the wider GCC.

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.
• Manage, 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

Senior Planning Manager Experience:

• B.Sc degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• Proven experience in managing a team
• Planning of Professional Services (Engineering and consultancy services);
• Proven track record of having contributed to the development of procedures related to planning and schedules review.
• 12+ years of experience in planning management and cost engineering
• Certification in planning and scheduling of projects and in using Primavera applications (Primavera Project Management / P6 and Primavera Contract Management / Expedition)
• 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: 10 Aug 2021

Status: Filled