Manager Forensic Planning

About the Role

Larsen & Toubro is seeking a Manager Forensic Planning to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading delay analysis, forensic schedule reviews, and claims support functions across various projects, ensuring robust and evidence-based schedule analyses.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Manager Forensic Planning supports contract administration, dispute resolution, and claim defense/entitlement by providing thorough schedule analyses. The incumbent ensures that all time-related claims are substantiated with accurate data, credible methodologies, and clear narratives, aligning with recognized industry standards such as the SCL Protocol and AACE International, thereby safeguarding organizational contractual and commercial interests.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the forensic planning function across multiple projects, ensuring consistency in methodology, quality, and deliverables.
• Perform detailed delay analyses using recognized techniques such as Time Impact Analysis (TIA), Windows Analysis, Impacted As-Planned, Collapsed As-Built, and other cause-and-effect methodologies.
• Review baseline schedules, updates, and progress data to identify delays, disruptions, concurrency, and productivity impacts.
• Establish cause-effect relationships between events and project delays, ensuring defensible and audit-ready outputs.
• Support the preparation, evaluation, and rebuttal of Extension of Time (EOT) claims, disruption claims, and acceleration claims.
• Interface with Contracts, Commercial, and Legal teams to develop claim strategies and responses.
• Provide expert input for formal notices, claim submissions, and dispute resolution processes including adjudication, arbitration, or litigation support.
• Review subcontractor and supplier claims to assess entitlement, quantum, and risk exposure.
• Develop and maintain a contemporaneous records strategy in coordination with project teams to strengthen claim positions.
• Conduct forensic audits of project schedules and records to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for claim recovery or defense.
• Ensure alignment of forensic analyses with contract provisions, including delay, concurrency, float ownership, and mitigation obligations.
• Prepare clear, structured, and contractually robust reports, including narratives, schedule extracts, and evidentiary support.
• Provide guidance and training to project planning teams on best practices for record-keeping, baseline integrity, and delay identification.
• Participate in negotiations with clients, consultants, and subcontractors on time-related claims and disputes.
• Support management in risk identification and mitigation related to time and cost impacts across projects.
• Drive continuous improvement in forensic planning tools, processes, and templates.

Key Deliverables

• Forensic delay analysis reports compliant with SCL/AACE guidelines.
• Extension of Time (EOT) entitlement assessments.
• Claim narratives and supporting documentation.
• Rebuttal reports for client or subcontractor claims.
• Expert-ready documentation for dispute resolution proceedings.

Experience and Expertise

Candidates for this role should possess 5-10 years of experience in forensic planning or a related field. A strong understanding and practical application of recognized delay analysis techniques and industry protocols (*, SCL Protocol, AACE International) are essential for success in this position.

Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.