Senior Planning Manager

Role overview

Planning and schedule management

• Lead development, implementation, and maintenance of integrated master schedules for large-scale projects and programs.
• Establish work breakdown structures, scheduling methodologies, and project-controls procedures.
• Develop baseline, recovery, and revised schedules aligned with project objectives, contractual requirements, milestones, and delivery commitments.
• Monitor schedule performance, identify delays, review contractor and consultant schedules, and ensure updates reflect project status and forecast completion dates.
• Conduct critical-path, delay, and schedule-impact analysis; develop mitigation, recovery, and contingency plans.
• Identify schedule-related risks and opportunities and integrate risk analysis into project schedules.

Reporting, resources, and contracts

• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and performance measurement systems; prepare executive reports on progress, schedule performance, critical activities, and risks.
• Analyze trends and recommend improvements; present project-controls updates to senior management, clients, and stakeholders.
• Coordinate resource loading and workforce planning, forecast manpower and equipment needs, and align schedules with budgets and resource availability.
• Review contractual planning requirements and support claims, delay assessments, extension-of-time evaluations, variations, and dispute resolution.
• Ensure schedule deliverables comply with contractual obligations and client requirements.

Collaboration and team leadership

• Collaborate with project directors, project managers, commercial and design teams, client representatives, contractors, consultants, and client planning teams.
• Lead planning review meetings and communicate critical issues, risks, and recommendations to project leadership.
• Manage and mentor planning engineers, schedulers, and project-controls personnel; provide technical guidance and development opportunities.
• Establish planning standards and best practices, improve workflows and project-controls systems, and capture lessons learned.

Required qualifications and experience

• 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 on major infrastructure, aviation, transportation, construction, engineering, or PMCM projects.
• Extensive experience developing complex schedules and leading planning teams on major programs valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Experience working with government entities, developers, international consultants, PMCs, or major contractors.
• Strong knowledge of planning, scheduling methodologies, project-controls principles, and project lifecycle and construction delivery.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and project-controls reporting systems.
• Comprehensive understanding of CPM, EVM, resource planning, schedule risk analysis, delay analysis, and forensic schedule reviews.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, reporting, presentation, stakeholder-management, communication, and leadership capabilities; ability to manage multiple priorities.

Preferred qualifications

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

Benefits

• Benefits described include competitive pay and retirement plans, paid time off and flexible holidays, training and mentorship, veteran support, wellness programs, and medical, dental, and vision plans.