Planner / Building & Project Consultancy
Key Skills for This Role
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The Role
Develop, maintain and interrogate the integrated project programme, providing reliable progress measurement, forecasting and schedule risk analysis. The Planner will support proactive decision-making by identifying critical-path issues, interface constraints and recovery actions across multiple work packages.
Key Responsibilities
- Review contractor baseline and revised programmes for logic, sequencing, resource loading, calendars, milestones and contractual compliance.
- Develop and maintain the consultant’s integrated master schedule and package-level reporting structure.
- Update progress using verified site data and assess planned versus actual performance, critical path and float movement.
- Prepare weekly and monthly schedule reports, dashboards, S-curves, look-ahead schedules and milestone forecasts.
- Identify delays, constraints and programme risks; quantify potential impacts and recommend mitigation or recovery actions.
- Review recovery programmes, acceleration proposals, time-impact analyses and extension-of-time submissions.
- Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning teams to validate interfaces and dependencies.
- Maintain schedule narratives, assumptions, change logs, progress measurement rules and auditable records.
- Support earned value analysis, cash-flow forecasting and alignment between programme, cost and resource information.
- Facilitate planning workshops and communicate schedule priorities and required decisions clearly to stakeholders.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline.
- Minimum 7 years of planning and scheduling experience on major construction or infrastructure projects, preferably in KSA/GCC.
- Advanced Primavera P6 capability, including baselines, logic analysis, resource/cost loading and schedule comparison.
- Strong understanding of critical path method, progress measurement, delay analysis, time impact analysis and earned value principles.
- Experience preparing executive dashboards and concise planning narratives; Power BI experience is advantageous.
- PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP or equivalent certification is advantageous.
- Excellent written and spoken English, strong reporting and stakeholder communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant project systems.
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary, fast-paced consultancy environment in KSA.
- High standards of integrity, confidentiality, organisation and attention to detail.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline.
- Minimum 7 years of planning and scheduling experience on major construction or infrastructure projects, preferably in KSA/GCC.
- Advanced Primavera P6 capability, including baselines, logic analysis, resource/cost loading and schedule comparison.
- Strong understanding of critical path method, progress measurement, delay analysis, time impact analysis and earned value principles.
- Experience preparing executive dashboards and concise planning narratives; Power BI experience is advantageous.
- PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP or equivalent certification is advantageous.
- Excellent written and spoken English, strong reporting and stakeholder communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant project systems.
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary, fast-paced consultancy environment in KSA.
- High standards of integrity, confidentiality, organisation and attention to detail.
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