Planner
Role Overview
Savills is seeking a Planner to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves developing, maintaining, and interrogating integrated project programs to ensure reliable progress measurement, accurate forecasting, and thorough schedule risk analysis. The Planner will play a key role in supporting proactive decision-making by identifying critical-path issues, interface constraints, and necessary recovery actions across multiple work packages.
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About the Role
Savills is seeking a Planner to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves developing, maintaining, and interrogating integrated project programs to ensure reliable progress measurement, accurate forecasting, and thorough schedule risk analysis. The Planner will play a key role in supporting proactive decision-making by identifying critical-path issues, interface constraints, and necessary recovery actions across multiple work packages.
Key Responsibilities
- Review contractor baseline and revised programs 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 program risks; quantify potential impacts and recommend mitigation or recovery actions.
- Review recovery programs, 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 program, cost, and resource information.
- Facilitate planning workshops and communicate schedule priorities and required decisions clearly to stakeholders.
- Required Experience
- Candidates should possess 7-10 years of experience in a relevant planning role, demonstrating a strong understanding of project programming and schedule management.
- Work Environment and Location
- This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. The role requires collaboration with various project teams and stakeholders to ensure project timelines and objectives are met effectively.
Qualifications
- Candidates should possess 7-10 years of experience in a relevant planning role, demonstrating a strong understanding of project programming and schedule management.
- Work Environment and Location
- This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. The role requires collaboration with various project teams and stakeholders to ensure project timelines and objectives are met effectively.
About Savills
Savills plc is a global real estate services provider headquartered in London, UK. Established in 1855, it offers a comprehensive range of advisory, management, and transaction services across various property sectors, including residential and commercial real estate. With over 42,000 professionals in more than 700 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East, Savills advises corporate, institutional, and private clients on acquiring, leasing, developing, or realizing the value of their properties.
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