Industry: Engineering
Job Description:
Planning Engineer, required for a company in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Essential Functions:
– To deliver and maintain standard, consistent and realistic project plans reflecting the assessed risk parameters for each project.
– Extensive use and familiarity using Primavera software.
– Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for major, complex projects.
– Develop the list of plans required to execute the project and their hierarchy relationship.
– Drive, manage and ensure completeness of the development of the activities, logic, resources and progress for the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline and its subsequent maintenance.
– Instigate, develop and police the planning and progress monitoring procedures to ensure that each element of the project performs the processes timely and consistently.
– Own the overall schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses.
– Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy.
– Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project Management.
– Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project.
– Prepare reconciliation between earlier schedules and the current schedule.
– Consolidate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and “What if scenarios” to aid project management decision-making.
– Liaise with and challenge Senior Project Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
– Contribute to the development of contract strategies documents.
– Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan.
– Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.
– Contribute to the development of the project’s risk profiles and translate these into the plans using deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods, as appropriate.
– Regularly track the schedule risk mitigation efforts, the criticality of the main paths to completion, float consumption and the release of the 50/50 schedule contingency.
– Implement, ensure compliance and utilize the Company standard tools and processes.
– Provide input data for and conduct benchmarking activities.
– Deliver close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work.
Supervisory Responsibility:
– This position has minor supervisory responsibilities.
Work Environment:
– This job operates in a professional office or site office environment.
– This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Physical Demands:
– While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
– The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
– The employee must work 48 hours each week to maintain full-time status.
Travel:
– Minor travel within the kingdom is expected for this position on a rare basis.
Requirements:
– Eligible to work for any employer in Saudi Arabia.
– Engineering Degree and/or Certification as a Planning Engineer or equivalent experience.
– Minimum of 8 years industry experience in lead planning positions.
– Experience in managing small teams of junior personnel.
– Fully versed with Planning principles and techniques and Primavera P6.
Other Duties:
– Please note this advertisement is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.
– Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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