Assistant Planning Manager

Overview

The Project

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Delivering a safe, high‑quality, and compliant delivery environment, championing well-being, inclusion and strong HSE standards.
• Undertaking key assignments, ensuring effective planning, scheduling, and performance aligned with strategic objectives.
• Supporting senior management with governance, due diligence and schedule analysis.
• Fostering collaboration, knowledge‑sharing, and strong stakeholder relationships across projects.
• Conducting planning and scheduling across complex project phases and collaborating with supervision consultant and contractor planning teams.
• Interfacing with stakeholders and driving progress reporting and productivity tracking against the approved progressing rules and methodologies.
• Embedding sustainability, safety, and contract compliance into programme delivery.
• Operating planning and reporting tools, and methodologies to ensure performance and continuous improvement.

You’ll Need To Have

• Relevant degree and membership of APM, RICS, CIOB, ICE, AACE, IRM, IEMA or equivalent demonstrable professional or personal development.
• Strong experience in Primavera P6 planning software. TILOS planning software experience beneficial.
• Demonstrable experience reviewing and challenging contractor programmes.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, constraints and delivery methods.
• Experience in delay analysis and time impact assessment.
• Understanding of FIDIC contracts and time-related provisions.
• Strong analytical capability across schedule, cost and progress integration.
• Ability to communicate complex programme information clearly to stakeholders.
• Necessary visa criteria for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and have relevant work experience working on high-valued projects/programmes for a project management consultancy business, which are required for immigration and client approval.
• Our values
• Safety first - Going home safe and well:
• We champion a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of well-being in every team.
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise:
• We own the quality of deliverables and strategic outcomes and build long-term relationships with our clients.
• Integrity - Always do the right thing:
• We influence positive outcomes within our industry while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel:
• We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.
• Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates.
• Even if you feel you do not fulfill all the criteria, please apply, as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.
• We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.