Project Controls / Planning Manager
About the Role
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
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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.
About WSP
WSP is a global professional services firm headquartered in Montréal, providing engineering, advisory, and science-based expertise. It serves clients across transportation and infrastructure, property and buildings, earth and environment, energy, water, and other sectors.
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