Lead Planner

About Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is dedicated to addressing critical global challenges across various sectors, including urban development, environmental resilience, and scientific discovery. The company focuses on transforming concepts into tangible solutions that contribute positively to the world.

Role Overview: Lead Planner

Jacobs is seeking a Lead Planner to manage planning and schedule reporting for the closeout portfolio. This full-time position requires over 10 years of experience and is based in Neom or Riyadh, serving all regions of Saudi Arabia. The Lead Planner will establish schedule standards, develop integrated demobilization and preservation schedules, and lead schedule reviews to support closeout decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Own schedule reporting across the portfolio and define the status, update, review, and reporting cycle.
• Establish planning standards, coding requirements, schedule templates, calendars, reporting cut-offs, and quality checks.
• Develop and maintain integrated demobilization, preservation, termination, and closeout schedules.
• Prepare schedule forecasts covering milestones, remaining activities, contract interfaces, handovers, preservation periods, and closure dates.
• Conduct critical path, near-critical path, float, logic, constraint, and schedule health analyses.
• Develop S-curves, milestone trends, progress curves, schedule narratives, and executive planning dashboards.
• Lead schedule review meetings with project, construction, commercial, procurement, contractor, consultant, and stakeholder teams.
• Assess schedule updates for completeness, logic, status accuracy, sequencing, and support for reported progress.
• Combine contract and workstream schedules into a portfolio view and identify cross-contract dependencies.
• Identify slippage, constraints, missed milestones, and forecast changes, explaining their effect on closeout objectives.
• Provide schedule substantiation for claims, disputes, settlement discussions, and final account reviews.
• Lead planning inputs for weekly and monthly reports, demobilization reports, closeout reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Support the Project Controls Manager in portfolio reviews and senior stakeholder discussions.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 20 years of experience in planning and scheduling roles.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage complex integrated schedules.
• Experience in critical path analysis and schedule health assessments.
• Proficiency in preparing detailed schedule forecasts and reports.

Work Location

This full-time position is available in Neom and Riyadh, serving projects across all regions of Saudi Arabia.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the specified requirements are encouraged to apply. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.