Lead Planner - NEOM
Role Overview
Own planning and schedule reporting for the closeout portfolio, setting standards and providing analysis to support closeout decisions.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Own planning and schedule reporting for the closeout portfolio, setting standards and providing analysis to support closeout decisions.
Key accountabilities
- Own portfolio schedule reporting and set the status, update, review, and reporting cycle.
- Set planning standards, coding requirements, templates, calendars, reporting cutoffs, and quality checks.
- Develop integrated demobilization, preservation, termination, and closeout schedules.
- Forecast milestones, remaining activities, contract interfaces, handovers, preservation periods, and closure dates.
- Analyze critical and near-critical paths, float, logic, constraints, and schedule health.
- Develop S-curves, milestone trends, progress curves, schedule narratives, and executive planning dashboards.
- Lead schedule reviews and assess schedule updates for completeness, logic, status accuracy, sequencing, and reported progress.
- Integrate contract and workstream schedules, identify cross-contract dependencies, and explain slippage and forecast changes.
- Substantiate schedules for claims, disputes, settlements, and final account reviews.
- Lead planning inputs to weekly and monthly reports, closeout reports, dashboards, and presentations; support portfolio reviews.
Experience required
- Minimum 20 years of planning and scheduling experience.
- Minimum 10 years of experience on major projects in Saudi Arabia and/or the GCC.
- Experience on mega-projects or mixed-use programs with multi-billion SAR portfolios and many contracts.
- Substantial experience in schedule development, review, forecasting, critical-path analysis, progress measurement, and reporting.
- Experience with demobilization, preservation, termination, handover, or closeout schedules is preferred.
Workplace
- The posting specifies a hybrid office/onsite setup and describes a policy allowing work between Jacobs offices or projects and remote locations.
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