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Project Controls / Planning Manager

WSP USA Inc.
Jeddah, KSA
Full-time
Manager · 15+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered Yesterday

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Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
  • Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in project planning and project controls.
  • Strong experience working with an engineering consultancy, supervision consultant, PMC, or project management consultancy.
  • Demonstrable project controls experience on major roads, utilities, infrastructure, or land-development projects.
  • Previous experience managing multiple construction packages and programme interfaces.
  • Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6 and other relevant planning and reporting applications.
  • Thorough understanding of critical-path analysis, progress measurement, resource loading, earned value, forecasting, and schedule risk analysis.
  • Experience reviewing baseline programmes, recovery schedules, extension-of-time submissions, and contractor claims.
  • Knowledge of construction methodologies and programme requirements for roads, wet utilities, dry utilities, power, telecom, and landscaping works.
  • Strong reporting, analytical, leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to lead planning meetings and communicate programme risks clearly to senior management and clients.
  • Previous experience in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC is strongly preferred.
  • PMP, PMI-SP, PSP, or an equivalent relevant professional certification would be advantageous.
  • Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.
  • Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
  • With us, you can. Apply today.

Responsibilities

  • Lead project controls, planning, scheduling, progress measurement, forecasting, and reporting activities.
  • Establish and maintain the overall project controls framework, procedures, systems, and reporting requirements.
  • Develop, review, and maintain the integrated master programme using Primavera P6.
  • Review contractors’ baseline programmes, recovery programmes, revised schedules, and periodic updates.
  • Monitor actual progress against approved baselines, milestones, contractual dates, and key performance indicators.
  • Identify critical and near-critical activities, schedule risks, delays, and emerging programme issues.
  • Analyse schedule variances and recommend mitigation, recovery, and acceleration measures.
  • Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, dashboards, presentations, and management summaries.
  • Coordinate programme interfaces and dependencies across the different construction packages.
  • Lead planning and progress meetings with the client, contractors, consultants, and project teams.
  • Review resource loading, productivity, procurement schedules, material tracking, and construction sequencing.
  • Maintain progress measurement systems and ensure consistent reporting across all packages.
  • Support the assessment of extension-of-time submissions, delay events, claims, and variations.
  • Undertake schedule impact assessments and support forensic delay analysis when required.
  • Monitor key project risks and ensure that programme mitigation measures are incorporated into project schedules.
  • Support cost control, earned value management, cash-flow forecasting, and change-control activities.
  • Provide regular advice to the Project Director and senior management on programme performance and potential risks.
  • Lead and mentor planners, schedulers, and project controls personnel.
  • Ensure compliance with contractual requirements, WSP procedures, client standards, and project reporting protocols.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC is strongly preferred.

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