Senior Planner📣 إعلان

About Bechtel Corporation and Expo 2030 Riyadh

Since 1898, Bechtel Corporation has successfully completed over 25,000 projects across 160 countries, contributing significantly to job creation, economic growth, infrastructure improvement, and increased access to essential services. The company operates across diverse markets including Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing and Technology, providing comprehensive services from initial planning through to start-up and operations. Bechtel is currently engaged in managing the infrastructure program for Expo 2030 Riyadh, a global event focused on sustainable development and innovation.

The Expo 2030 Riyadh project involves the development of a 6 km2 Masterplan, which includes early works, utilities, and publicly accessible spaces. This scope is designed to transition into a mixed-use legacy development following the event, scheduled from October 2030 to March 2031, with an expected attendance of over 40 million visits.

Role Overview: Senior Planner

Bechtel Corporation is seeking a Senior Planner to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves working with the project team to assist in the preparation, establishment, and maintenance of schedule data for proposals and contracts. The Senior Planner will perform schedule development, monitoring, reporting, and analysis, and contribute to schedule recovery plans, ultimately optimizing scheduling details for critical activities to achieve project deadlines and objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in preparing schedule data for proposals or contracts.
• Establish and maintain schedules for specific discipline areas or specialties.
• Perform schedule development duties, including establishing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), determining work activity durations, establishing proper workflow logic ties, and developing required job expenditures.
• Conduct schedule monitoring, including identifying critical activities and updating functions for specific applications, disciplines, or specialties.
• Assist with the maintenance of critical path schedule reports and schedule performance metrics.
• Perform schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine the criticality of schedule activities.
• Assist with the development and implementation of schedule recovery plans.
• Review contractors’ baseline schedules against contractual requirements, milestones, WBS, schedule logic, critical path, interfaces, resources, and deliverables.
• Prepare consolidated schedule review comments for correction and approval.
• Review 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 considered advantageous.
• Approximately 12 years of relevant planning and scheduling experience on major infrastructure, utilities, industrial, or capital projects, with substantial involvement in pre-commissioning, commissioning, completions, and handover phases.
• Experience working in a PMO, PMC, EPCM, or major-project delivery environment, preferably within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East.
• Strong preference for experience in integrating multi-contractor schedules and coordinating system-based completion across complex interfaces.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated skill and experience in planning and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, and analysis.
• Proven ability to establish criteria for project planning and scheduling activities.
• Skilled in both oral and written communication, with a clear ability to present planning and scheduling information to management and clients.
• Demonstrated capability in identifying, analyzing, and solving problems effectively.
• Up-to-date knowledge of current industry and technical developments.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The salary for this role will be disclosed during the recruitment process.