Senior Planning Engineer / P6 Planner

Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Experience

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and update the integrated project master schedule using Primavera P6.
• Coordinate schedules from multiple contractors and ensure alignment with the overall programme requirements.
• Review contractor plans for logic, robustness, accuracy, completeness and deliverability.
• Ensure key dependencies, interfaces, milestones, activities and deliverables are clearly mapped and correctly sequenced.
• Identify and monitor critical paths, near-critical paths and schedule risks.
• Support regular schedule updates, baseline refreshes and progress reporting cycles.
• Track plan versus actual performance and highlight delays, slippages and potential impacts.
• Support project teams with clear reports, dashboards and management updates.
• Call out risks, issues and potential delays early, with recommended mitigation actions.
• Work with commercial and finance teams to support schedule-linked reporting, including progress weightings and financial performance inputs.
• Review contractor submissions and challenge assumptions where plans are weak, incomplete or unrealistic.
• Maintain accurate schedule records, assumptions, progress data and change history.
• Support leadership with clear, concise reporting for decision-making.
• Required experience
• Minimum 13-20 years’ experience in planning, scheduling and project controls.
• Strong hands-on experience with Primavera P6.
• Experience working on major capital projects, infrastructure, real estate, construction, utilities, industrial or similar complex programmes.
• Proven ability to manage and coordinate schedules across multiple contractors.
• Strong understanding of baseline management, progress updates, critical path analysis, dependencies and schedule risk.
• Experience supporting plan versus actual reporting, progress measurement and task weightings.
• Ability to work directly from a client office in Riyadh, 5 days per week.
• Strong communication skills and confidence working with contractors, consultants and client-side leadership.
• Preferred skills
• Experience in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC.
• Strong Excel and reporting capability.
• Experience with dashboards, project controls reporting or Power BI would be an advantage.
• Commercial awareness and ability to link schedule performance to financial reporting.
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to challenge schedules constructively.
• ⁩