Senior Planner

Requisition ID: 300690

• Relocation Authorized: National/International - Single
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location: Riyadh

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Project Overview:

Expo 2030 Riyadh is a global platform where countries, organizations, and individuals will come together to collaborate. Under the theme “Foresight for Tomorrow,” the Expo promotes sustainable development, innovation, and transformative thinking. The event will be held from October 2030 to March 2031 and is expected to welcome over 40 million visits.
The 6 km² Masterplan outlines a comprehensive framework for participation and infrastructure at the Expo. The exhibition space, totaling 491,100 m² GFA, can accommodate up to 197 participating countries and 29 international organizations. Working collaboratively with our customer, Expo 2030 Riyadh Company (ERC), Bechtel will manage the infrastructure program which comprises early works, utilities, and publicly accessible spaces like streets and parks. Our scope on the six-square-kilometer site will transition into a mixed-use legacy development to serve the community after the six-month event is over. The project’s master plan leverages international sustainability standards for urban afforestation, treated water, and energy sources.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will work with the project team to assist in the preparation, establishment, and maintenance of schedule data for proposals or contracts. You will perform schedule development duties, monitoring, reporting, and analysis and assist with schedule recovery plans. Your work will enable Bechtel to optimize the scheduling details for critical activities to best achieve project deadlines and objectives.

Major Responsibilities:

• Assists in the preparation of schedule data for proposals or contracts
• Establishes and maintains the schedule for a specific discipline area or specialty
• Performs schedule development duties to include establishing the work breakdown structure (WBS), determining the work activity duration, establishing the proper workflow logic ties, and developing the required job expenditure
• Performs schedule monitoring, including identifying critical activities and updating functions for specific applications, disciplines, or specialties
• Assists with maintenance of critical path schedule reports and schedule performance metrics
• Performs schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine criticality of schedule activities Assists with schedule recovery plans
• Review of contractors’ baseline schedules against contractual requirements, milestones, WBS, schedule logic, critical path, interfaces, resources, and deliverables.
• Preparation of consolidated schedule review comments for correction and approval.
• Review of contractors’ regular schedule updates, including progress, forecast dates, critical path changes, delays, recovery actions, and schedule performance.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline; a postgraduate qualification is advantageous.
• Approximately 12 years of relevant planning and scheduling experience on major infrastructure, utilities, industrial or capital projects, including substantial involvement in pre-commissioning, commissioning, completions and handover.
• Experience working in a PMO, PMC, EPCM or major-project delivery environment, preferably in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East.
• Experience integrating multi-contractor schedules and coordinating system-based completion across complex interfaces is strongly preferred

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience and demonstrated skill in planning, and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, and analysis
• Experience and demonstrated skill in establishing criteria for project planning and scheduling activities
• Skilled in oral and written communication, with a demonstrated ability to present planning and scheduling information to management and clients Demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and solving problems
• Knowledgeable about current industry and technical developments

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