Planner / Building & Project Consultancy

About the Role

Savills Middle East is seeking a Planner / Building & Project Consultancy to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves developing, maintaining, and analyzing integrated project programs to ensure reliable progress measurement, forecasting, and schedule risk analysis. The Planner will support proactive decision-making by identifying critical-path issues, interface constraints, and recovery actions across multiple work packages.

Key Responsibilities

• Review contractor baseline and revised programs for logic, sequencing, resource loading, calendars, milestones, and contractual compliance.
• Develop and maintain the consultant’s integrated master schedule and package-level reporting structure.
• Update progress using verified site data and assess planned versus actual performance, critical path, and float movement.
• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule reports, dashboards, S-curves, look-ahead schedules, and milestone forecasts.
• Identify delays, constraints, and program risks; quantify potential impacts and recommend mitigation or recovery actions.
• Review recovery programs, acceleration proposals, time-impact analyses, and extension-of-time submissions.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning teams to validate interfaces and dependencies.
• Maintain schedule narratives, assumptions, change logs, progress measurement rules, and auditable records.
• Support earned value analysis, cash-flow forecasting, and alignment between program, cost, and resource information.
• Facilitate planning workshops and communicate schedule priorities and required decisions clearly to stakeholders.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates for this role should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in planning within building and project consultancy. A strong understanding of project programming, progress measurement, and schedule risk analysis is essential.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within the Savills Middle East team. The role requires collaboration with various internal and external teams, including contractors, engineering, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning personnel.

Application Process

The salary for this position will be discussed directly with qualified candidates. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply.