Senior Planning Engineer

About the Role

SNC-Lavalin Fayez Engineering is seeking a Senior Planning Engineer to join their team in Al Ula. This full-time role involves supporting the successful delivery of high-profile mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations, cultural assets, and recreational landmark projects. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules, providing strategic planning support, and delivering schedule performance analysis across all phases of project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop initial baseline schedules with limited project information, specifically for mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations, cultural assets, and recreational landmark projects.
• Assist in the preparation and management of overview and strategic programs, including design, procurement, and construction schedules, along with supporting information.
• Incorporate all project stages from initiation to completion in the baseline and identify stage gates accordingly.
• Coordinate and manage the preparation and development of master planning, engineering, procurement, and construction schedules, including associated information.
• Establish and agree upon project reporting procedures, prepare, and present monthly project progress. Develop project and program dashboard templates for use by designers and contractors.
• Review schedules and related documents from designers and contractors, including monthly reports, to ensure compliance with project objectives.
• Analyze schedule trends to identify problem areas and recommend corrective actions to management. Monitor actual progress against planned progress.
• Monitor engineering design progress, material and equipment procurement, and construction and commissioning status.
• Prepare progress monitoring tools using earned value for the management and monitoring of schedules. Monitor progress both on and off-site, identify deviations, and suggest corrective actions.
• 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, sub-contractors, and internal management.
• Conduct studies into scheduling, manpower, cash flow, and material flow as required.
• Attend offsite meetings as requested by the client.
• Review schedules for slippage of key dates.
• Assist in the defense or approval of any claim for time extension or major schedule change.
• Ensure that each Planning Engineer maintains professional standards, current information, and effective communication within the team.
• Establish and maintain consistent and adequate administration procedures in the planning field, to be followed across the project by planners working under Construction Managers.
• Participate with the project management team, as directed by the Project Director, to achieve project deliverables.
• Involve key stakeholder requirements and approvals in the baseline.
• Issue high-level weekly schedule updates.
• Identify and report 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.
• Develop and monitor program KPIs.

Qualifications and Experience

• A degree in construction management and/or civil engineering is preferred.
• Membership or chartership from a construction-related professional body is preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in planning, with a track record of working on heritage, hotel, master planning, museum, cultural, or pavilion projects.
• Ideally, a minimum of 5 years of experience working in the Middle East region.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Al Ula.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the above requirements are encouraged to apply.