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Site Office, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Planning Manager to lead project planning, scheduling, project controls, progress monitoring, and reporting activities for a prestigious site supervision consultancy assignment in Riyadh. The Planning Manager will be responsible for ensuring that the project is delivered in accordance with approved schedules, contractual milestones, and client objectives. The role involves working closely with the Client, Project Director, Resident Engineer, contractors, and multidisciplinary teams to provide strategic planning support, schedule analysis, risk assessment, and performance reporting throughout the construction lifecycle. The successful candidate will play a key role in identifying potential delays, mitigating schedule risks, and ensuring effective project execution from mobilization through commissioning and handover.
Your role
- Lead and manage all planning, scheduling, and project controls activities for the project.
- Review, assess, and recommend approval of contractor baseline schedules, revised schedules, and recovery programs.
- Develop and maintain the overall master schedule incorporating design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
- Monitor project performance and progress against approved schedules and contractual milestones.
- Conduct critical path analysis and identify schedule risks, delays, and potential bottlenecks.
- Analyze contractor progress and verify reported progress against actual site achievements.
- Evaluate mitigation and recovery plans proposed by contractors to address project delays.
- Prepare and present weekly, monthly, and executive progress reports highlighting schedule performance, risks, and forecast completion dates.
- Lead schedule review meetings and planning workshops with project stakeholders.
- Coordinate with engineering, construction, commercial, and supervision teams to ensure schedule alignment.
- Review and monitor procurement schedules, material delivery schedules, and authority approval timelines.
- Assess contractor manpower, equipment, and resource allocations against project requirements.
- Perform productivity analysis and monitor construction performance indicators.
- Maintain and update project dashboards, progress measurement systems, and project control tools.
- Support commercial teams in the evaluation of Extension of Time (EOT) claims, delay analysis, and disruption claims.
- Conduct forensic schedule analysis and provide recommendations on schedule-related contractual matters.
- Identify potential project risks and opportunities and support the maintenance of the project risk register.
- Ensure compliance with project controls procedures, reporting standards, and client requirements.
- Monitor testing, commissioning, and handover activities to ensure timely project completion.
- Provide strategic advice to project leadership on schedule optimization and project delivery improvements.
- Mentor and supervise planning engineers and project control staff.
Location
Site Office, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Job Type
Full time
Ref
R-163554
Salary range
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About you
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Master's Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or Project Management is preferred.
- Professional certification such as PMP, PMI-SP, AACE, PSP (Planning & Scheduling Professional), or equivalent is highly desirable.
- Minimum 15+ years of total professional experience in planning, scheduling, and project controls.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in a Planning Manager role on major building and construction projects.
- Proven experience in large-scale building developments, convention centers, hospitality projects, hotels, resorts, mixed-use developments, or comparable mega-projects.
- Extensive experience within Site Supervision Consultancy, PMC, or Engineering Consultancy environments.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and project control reporting tools.
- Strong understanding of Critical Path Method (CPM), Earned Value Management (EVM), and schedule forecasting techniques.
- Demonstrated experience in delay analysis, claim assessment, and Extension of Time evaluation.
- Good knowledge of FIDIC contracts and construction contract administration processes.
- Strong analytical, reporting, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in Saudi Arabia or GCC projects is highly preferred.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to interpret technical, commercial, and contractual information to support project decision-making.
- Fluency in English is required; Arabic language skills are an advantage.
Why choose AtkinsRéalis?
Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like-minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.
This includes:
- Tax-free salary.
- Life insurance coverage.
- Medical insurance.
- Annual leave balance.
- Company gratuity scheme.
- Discretionary bonus program.
- Annual flight contribution.
- Transportation & housing allowances.
- Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, familycare, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.
Make it brilliant, a career with AtkinsRéalis
Our supportive, collaborative culture inspires us as a global community every day.
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About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
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