Planner📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Bechtel Corporation is seeking a Planner to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves working with the project team to prepare, establish, and maintain schedule data for proposals and contracts. The Planner will perform schedule development, monitoring, reporting, and analysis, contributing to the optimization of scheduling details for critical activities to meet project deadlines and objectives.

Project Overview: Expo 2030 Riyadh

The Expo 2030 Riyadh project is a global platform focused on sustainable development, innovation, and transformative thinking, scheduled from October 2030 to March 2031 with an expected 40 million visits. Bechtel is responsible for managing the infrastructure program within the 6 km2 Masterplan. This includes early works, utilities, and publicly accessible spaces such as streets and parks, in collaboration with the Expo 2030 Riyadh Company (ERC). The project site will transition into a mixed-use legacy development after the event, leveraging international sustainability standards for urban afforestation, treated water, and energy sources.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of schedule data for project proposals or contracts.
• Establish and maintain the project schedule for a specific discipline area or specialty.
• Perform schedule development duties, including establishing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), determining work activity duration, establishing workflow logic ties, and developing required job expenditure.
• Conduct schedule monitoring, identifying critical activities and updating functions for specific applications, disciplines, or specialties.
• Assist with the maintenance of critical path schedule reports and schedule performance metrics.
• Perform schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine the criticality of schedule activities.
• Assist with the development and implementation of schedule recovery plans.

Contractor Schedule Management

• Assist with the review of contractors’ baseline schedules against contractual requirements, milestones, WBS, schedule logic, critical path, interfaces, resources, and deliverables.
• Support the preparation of consolidated schedule review comments for correction and approval.
• Assist with the review of contractors’ regular schedule updates, including progress, forecast dates, critical path changes, delays, recovery actions, and overall schedule performance.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in planning and scheduling roles.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, supporting the Expo 2030 Riyadh infrastructure program.