Senior Planning/Scheduling Engineer

Job description

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Planning/Scheduling Engineer to join our Site Supervision team in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, supporting major transport, roads, and infrastructure utilities projects. The successful candidate will be responsible for project planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, delay analysis, and reporting throughout the construction supervision phase, ensuring successful project delivery in accordance with contractual requirements and project objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Review, analyze, and validate contractor baseline programmes and schedule submissions.
• Monitor construction progress against approved schedules and identify deviations, risks, and recovery opportunities.
• Assess contractor resource allocation, productivity trends, and schedule performance.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports, dashboards, and executive schedule summaries.
• Conduct schedule impact assessments, delay analyses, and extension of time evaluations.
• Review and verify contractors' look-ahead programmes and recovery schedules.
• Monitor key project milestones, critical paths, and interface activities across multiple disciplines.
• Support Resident Engineers and Project Managers with planning-related recommendations.
• Evaluate contractor claims associated with time impacts and schedule changes.
• Participate in project progress meetings and provide planning advice to project stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with project controls procedures, contractual obligations, and reporting requirements.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary supervision teams covering roads, utilities, traffic, and infrastructure works.
• Maintain accurate project controls records and programme documentation throughout project execution.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 15+ years of professional experience in planning and scheduling.
• Extensive experience delivering transport, roads, highways, and infrastructure utilities projects.
• Strong site supervision consultancy experience on major infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience within Saudi Arabia, particularly on large-scale government, municipal, or transportation infrastructure programmes.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and other project planning software.
• Strong knowledge of delay analysis methodologies, EOT assessments, and project controls practices.
• Experience reviewing contractor programmes and monitoring construction progress during project execution.
• Excellent reporting, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PSP, or equivalent are preferred.
• Fluent in English; Arabic language skills are advantageous.
• Experience must be predominantly within consultancy and supervision environments.
• Candidates with primarily building construction, contractor execution, design office, or head office planning experience are not preferred.

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Preferred candidate

Years of experience

No experience required

Degree

Bachelor's degree / higher diploma