Senior Planning Manager

Role overview

Planning and scheduling

• Lead integrated master schedules for large-scale projects and programs, including schedule development, implementation, maintenance, and updates.
• Establish work breakdown structures, scheduling methods, project controls procedures, baselines, recovery schedules, and revised programs.
• Track progress and completion forecasts, identify schedule risks and delays, perform critical path and delay analysis, and develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Review contractor and consultant schedules for logic, resources, compliance, and project requirements.
• Align schedules with contracts, milestones, budgets, resources, and delivery commitments.

Reporting, resources, and claims

• Develop dashboards, KPIs, performance measures, and executive reports on progress, schedule performance, critical activities, and risks.
• Coordinate resource loading and workforce planning; analyze productivity and resource utilization and forecast manpower and equipment needs.
• Support claims, variation assessments, dispute resolution, and extension-of-time evaluations through schedule analysis.
• Present project control updates and recommendations to senior management, clients, and stakeholders.

Team leadership and improvement

• Collaborate with project directors, managers, commercial and design teams, clients, contractors, and consultants; lead planning review meetings.
• Lead and mentor planning engineers, schedulers, and project controls personnel.
• Establish planning standards and improve procedures, workflows, systems, software use, and reporting tools.
• Capture lessons learned and promote accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• At least 15 years of experience in planning, scheduling, project controls, or project management.
• Experience managing planning functions and complex schedules on major infrastructure, aviation, transportation, construction, engineering, or PMCM projects.
• Experience leading planning teams on major programs and working with government entities, developers, consultants, PMCs, or major contractors.
• Strong knowledge of planning methods, project controls, CPM, EVM, resource planning, and construction delivery.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and project control reporting systems.
• Experience in schedule risk analysis, delay analysis, and forensic schedule reviews.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, reporting, presentation, stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills; able to manage multiple priorities.

Preferred qualifications

• A master's degree in Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering, or Business Administration (MBA) is preferred.
• PMP, PMI-SP, AACE CCP, or equivalent professional certification is preferred.
• Experience with airport, aviation, transportation, rail, infrastructure, or giga-project developments is desirable.
• Primavera Risk Analysis or Acumen Fuse, FIDIC contracts, forensic delay and EOT assessments, and knowledge of Saudi project delivery and governmental approvals are desirable.