Senior Planning Engineer

About the Role

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Senior Planning Engineer to join their team in Al Madinah, specifically in Al Ula or Medina, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position supports the successful delivery of high-profile mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations, cultural assets, and recreational landmark projects across the Middle East. The role involves developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules, providing strategic planning support, and delivering schedule performance analysis throughout all project phases.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop initial baseline schedules with limited project information for mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations, cultural assets, and recreational landmark projects.
• Assist in preparing and managing overview and strategic programs, including design, procurement, and construction schedules.
• Incorporate all project stages from initiation to completion in the baseline and identify stage gates.
• Coordinate and manage the preparation of master planning, engineering, procurement, and construction schedules.
• Establish and agree upon project reporting procedures, prepare and present monthly project progress, and develop project and program dashboard templates.
• Review schedules and related documents from designers and contractors, including monthly reports, to ensure compliance with project objectives.
• Monitor schedule trends to identify problem areas and recommend corrective actions to management.
• Track engineering design progress, material and equipment procurement, and construction and commissioning status.
• Prepare progress monitoring tools using earned value for schedule management and monitoring.
• Collaborate with the Project Controls Manager and Project Team to ensure program feasibility and compliance with the Project Master Plan and contractual documents.
• Interface daily with designers, PMCs, main contractors, subcontractors, and internal management.
• Conduct studies into scheduling, manpower, cash flow, and material flow as required.
• Review schedules for slippage of key dates and assist in the defense or approval of claims for time extensions or major schedule changes.
• Ensure planning engineers maintain professional standards, current information, and effective team communication.
• Establish and maintain consistent and adequate administration procedures within the planning field.
• Participate with the project management team to achieve project deliverables.
• Involve key stakeholder requirements and approvals in the baseline.
• Issue high-level weekly schedule updates and identify and report on main issues interfering with progress.
• Identify and report on measures for improving schedule performance.
• Establish scheduling and reporting procedures, tools, templates, and instructions to standardize work across the program.
• Monitor the timing of submittals against schedule requirements and develop and monitor program KPIs.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in planning engineering roles.
• Demonstrated ability to develop initial baseline schedules with limited project information.
• Experience with mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations, cultural assets, and recreational landmark projects.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Al Ula or Medina, Saudi Arabia, supporting projects across the Middle East. The role requires close collaboration with project teams, designers, PMCs, contractors, and internal management.