Senior Planning Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Develop, baseline, and maintain integrated schedules across engineering and design disciplines from concept through detailed design and tender documentation.
• Break scope into work packages, deliverables, milestones, and a clear work breakdown structure.
• Forecast resources and man-hours with discipline leads and track resource loading.
• Track progress against baselines, analyze variances and critical paths, and recommend recovery actions.
• Coordinate progress inputs and dependencies with project managers, discipline leads, sub-consultants, and clients, including review and approval periods.
• Assess schedule impacts from design changes, client instructions, and scope variations; support time-impact records.
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports, dashboards, and presentations; provide early warnings on risks and delays.
• Support PMO planning standards and portfolio reporting; maintain baseline, update, and archive data integrity.
• Mentor junior planners, capture lessons learned, and contribute to continuous process improvement.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from a recognized university; a design discipline such as architecture, civil, structural, or MEP is preferred.
• Preferably 10+ years of planning and scheduling for design projects in design consultancies or PMOs handling engineering and design projects.
• Design engineering background and understanding of design stages, deliverables, and discipline interdependencies.
• Experience maintaining integrated schedules across multiple disciplines and concurrent projects, measuring progress, reporting, analyzing variances, and working with clients and multidisciplinary teams.

Technical skills and competencies

• Strong working knowledge of Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Knowledge of critical path method, work breakdown structures, resource levelling, and progress measurement.
• Understanding of design workflows, deliverable registers, and client review and approval cycles.
• Excel proficiency is required; reporting or dashboard tools such as Power BI are advantageous.
• PMP, PMI-SP, or Primavera P6 certification is advantageous.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, coordination, prioritization, and risk-anticipation skills; collaborative approach and willingness to mentor.

Work arrangement and hours

• The role is on-site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Flexible daily start and finish times are offered within a structured schedule of up to 48 hours per week.

Benefits and work environment

• Competitive salary and benefits, including housing and transportation, healthcare coverage, and wellness support.
• The employer describes a collaborative environment and opportunities to contribute to projects across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.

Application

• Application deadline: 20 November 2026. Riyadh-based candidates are preferred; relocation support is available.