SR. ENGINEER PLANNING

About El Seif Engineering Contracting Company

El Seif Engineering Contracting Company operates with core values of excellence, integrity, and innovation. With over 50 years of experience across various industries, including public infrastructure, military, and defense, the company focuses on delivering projects with precision and attention to detail. El Seif aims to pioneer the future of construction through continuous innovation, creating sustainable and impactful solutions.

The Role of SR. ENGINEER - PLANNING

The SR. ENGINEER - PLANNING will be responsible for leading planning activities, including schedule preparation, progress monitoring, and delay analysis. This full-time role requires over 10 years of experience and involves both headquarters (HQ) and project-based responsibilities, ensuring alignment with project scope and strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation of comprehensive, resource-loaded, and cost-loaded schedules, specifically Tender Schedules (HQ role) or Project Baseline Schedules (Project role), ensuring full alignment with project scope and strategy.
• Develop and integrate logical work sequences and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) for all project disciplines.
• Proactively monitor progress against the baseline, identify, analyze, and report schedule deviations, and recommend corrective actions or work-around solutions.
• Prepare and maintain Look-Ahead Schedules and Action Plans, leading weekly meetings to highlight delay risks and ensure accountability for mitigation actions.
• Implement standard delay analysis methodologies (*, Time Impact Analysis) to support the preparation of Extension of Time (EOT) claims in a Project role.
• Rigorously review project documentation to identify and substantiate delay events (Project role) or to identify risks and assumptions for a bid (HQ role).
• Ensure all project controls data (WBS, CBS, budgets, schedules) is accurately set up and maintained in EPM/EPPM for either tender proposals or active projects.
• Act as a key point of contact for schedule-related matters, liaising with tendering teams (HQ role) or project teams, clients, and consultants (Project role).
• Deploy on short-term assignments to projects, providing targeted support during critical project phases or helping implement new procedures as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in an HQ role.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to planning engineers and site teams (Project role) or to junior members of the tendering/planning team (HQ role) on scheduling best practices, project controls, and delay analysis.
• Act as a primary point of contact for schedule-related communications, ensuring alignment and clear understanding of project progress with clients and consultants (Project role) or tender schedule strategy with internal departments (HQ role).
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of planning processes, methodologies, and tools within the Project Planning Department, incorporating lessons learned from either project execution or the tendering process.

Qualifications and Requirements

• A minimum of 12 years of relevant experience in planning and scheduling.
• Ability to comply with corporate information security policies and procedures relevant to the role.
• Commitment to preserving the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Board and corporate information.
• Ensuring access to sensitive information is restricted to authorized individuals.
• Capability to protect organizational information assets from compromise.
• Adherence to Data Protection and Intellectual Property Rights legislation applicable in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Work Type

This is a full-time position within El Seif Engineering Contracting Company.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the specified requirements are encouraged to apply.