Planner (Saudi National)

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Planner to join our team! In this role you will get to develop, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover activities for a major infrastructure or mega project.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Promote and comply with all health, safety, security, environmental, and wellbeing requirements.
• Ensure project schedules appropriately reflect safety, access, logistics, permitting, and operational constraints.
• Support the implementation of Stop Work authority and other project safety initiatives.
• Develop, update, and maintain detailed project schedules for design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Support the development and maintenance of the Integrated Master Schedule.
• Prepare and update schedule activities in accordance with approved planning procedures, coding structures, calendars, and reporting requirements.
• Perform critical path, near-critical path, float, logic, and schedule trend analysis.
• Identify schedule risks, delays, constraints, opportunities, and potential impacts to key project milestones.
• Support the preparation and monitoring of recovery, mitigation, acceleration, and resequencing plans.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, commercial, cost control, and project management teams to ensure schedules are realistic and achievable.
• Provide planning and scheduling support for multiple work packages, contracts, project locations, and interfaces.
• Assist with the resolution of complex planning and scheduling issues.
• Interface with clients, contractors, consultants, suppliers, and project stakeholders as required.
• Attend progress, planning, risk, interface, and coordination meetings.
• Provide planning input and recommendations regarding schedule performance, risks, trends, and corrective actions.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of the project coding structure, including the Work Breakdown Structure, Cost Breakdown Structure, activity codes, milestones, and responsibility assignments.
• Support the integration of scope, cost, resources, risk, and schedule within the approved project control structure.
• Review contractor and subcontractor baseline schedules, updates, recovery schedules, and look-ahead schedules.
• Perform schedule quality checks, including logic reviews, open ends, constraints, negative float, excessive lags, duration anomalies, and critical path integrity.
• Ensure schedule updates are accurate, timely, traceable, and compliant with approved project procedures.
• Support the incorporation of approved changes into project schedules through the change-control process.
• Maintain records of schedule revisions, changes, delays, impacts, assumptions, and supporting justifications.
• Support schedule assurance reviews and planning audits.
• Support the development and application of progress measurement methods for design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Verify reported progress using physical quantities, weighted milestones, installed quantities, and other approved measurement methods.
• Monitor planned, actual, and forecast progress against the approved baseline.
• Apply earned value principles to support project performance monitoring and forecasting.
• Assist with the analysis of Planned Value, Earned Value, Actual Cost, and schedule performance indicators.
• Coordinate with cost control, commercial, quantity surveying, and project management teams to ensure consistent progress reporting.
• Collect, validate, and maintain historical project data for forecasting, benchmarking, and future planning.
• Monitor schedule risks, constraints, assumptions, and opportunities affecting project milestones and completion dates.
• Support the maintenance of the schedule risk register.
• Assist with qualitative and quantitative schedule risk analysis and risk-adjusted forecasting.
• Analyze the impact of changes, delays, disruptions, resource constraints, procurement issues, and interface dependencies.
• Support the preparation of time impact analyses, delay assessments, schedule narratives, and extension-of-time evaluations.
• Assist with the preparation and monitoring of recovery and mitigation strategies.
• Escalate significant schedule risks and delays to the appropriate project controls management.
• Coordinate with contractors, subcontractors, consultants, authorities, utility providers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
• Integrate contractor and supplier schedules into the project and Integrated Master Schedule.
• Maintain interface schedules, interface registers, dependencies, constraints, and cross-package milestones.
• Monitor long-lead procurement items, design releases, approvals, permits, access requirements, and other key constraints.
• Participate in planning workshops, schedule reviews, coordination meetings, and risk workshops.
• Assist in resolving scheduling conflicts and aligning stakeholders on project timelines and responsibilities.
• Track actions arising from schedule, progress, risk, and interface meetings.
• Support the integration of systems completion, testing, pre-commissioning, commissioning, trial operations, and handover activities into the project schedule.
• Coordinate planning inputs for operational readiness, training, documentation, approvals, asset registration, and opening or revenue-service milestones.
• Monitor defects closeout, punch-list completion, final acceptance, and handover activities.
• Utilize Primavera P6 to develop, update, analyze, and report project schedules.
• Use Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Power BI, or other relevant project controls and reporting tools as required.
• Support the use of schedule quality-checking, progress measurement, risk analysis, and project controls systems.
• Prepare schedule dashboards, charts, tables, and visual reports for project teams, management, and clients.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and ad hoc schedule reports.
• Develop progress updates, milestone reports, variance analyses, trend reports, schedule narratives, and look-ahead reports.
• Report actual and forecast completion dates, critical activities, schedule risks, constraints, and required actions.
• Provide schedule input for client meetings, project reviews, governance meetings, and management reports.
• Maintain accurate records of schedules, updates, assumptions, risks, changes, delays, and supporting documentation.
• Perform other responsibilities associated with this position as appropriate.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related field. A Higher National Diploma in a relevant field may also be acceptable.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in project planning and scheduling.
• Experience supporting major infrastructure, rail, transportation, industrial, or large-scale construction projects.
• Demonstrable experience developing and managing schedules for multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience supporting design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Experience working with multiple contractors, consultants, suppliers, and project stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, including schedule development, baseline management, updates, coding, critical path analysis, and reporting.
• Strong knowledge of planning methodologies, critical path analysis, resource allocation, progress measurement, and schedule forecasting.
• Experience supporting the integration of scope, cost, risk, resources, and schedule within project control structures.
• Experience reviewing contractor and subcontractor schedules.
• Knowledge of earned value management and project performance reporting.
• Experience supporting schedule risk analysis, recovery planning, mitigation planning, and delay assessment.
• Experience with change control, schedule impact analysis, and extension-of-time support is desirable.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and coordination skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to prepare clear, accurate, and technically detailed planning reports and schedule narratives.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet demanding deadlines in a fast-paced project environment.
• PMP, PMI-SP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, AACE, or equivalent certification is desirable.
• Primavera P6 certification is highly desirable.
• Certified Planner or other project controls certification is preferred.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Experience working on a mega project, major infrastructure program, or complex multidisciplinary project.
• Experience supporting an Integrated Master Schedule with multiple work packages, contracts, interfaces, and project locations.
• Experience with cost-loaded, resource-loaded, and risk-adjusted schedules.
• Knowledge of schedule risk analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, and confidence-level forecasting.
• Experience using schedule quality-checking tools.
• Experience with Power BI, advanced Microsoft Excel, and automated project controls reporting.
• Knowledge of BIM, 4D planning, digital project controls, or model-based scheduling is desirable.
• Familiarity with FIDIC, NEC, or other international forms of contract.
• Experience supporting claims, variations, delay analysis, extension-of-time assessments, or dispute resolution.
• Understanding of the interfaces between planning, cost control, risk, commercial, contracts, procurement, and document control.
• Proactive and delivery-focused, with the ability to coordinate stakeholders and support alignment around project objectives.
• Strong organizational, communication, coordination, and presentation skills.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing project requirements, priorities, and delivery strategies.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and the application of industry best practices.
• Experience working in Saudi Arabia and/or the Gulf region is highly preferred.
• Experience with major Saudi infrastructure, rail, transportation, urban development, or giga-project programs is an advantage.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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