Planning Engineer

About the Role

AECOM is seeking a Planning Engineer to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves developing, integrating, and monitoring comprehensive project schedules, alongside providing strategic insights to ensure successful project delivery. The Planning Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams, contractors, and stakeholders to identify schedule risks, track progress, and implement corrective measures to keep projects on track and within scope.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and integrate master schedules covering all project phases, including engineering, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover.
• Review and validate contractor work breakdown structures and multi-level schedules (Level 1 through Level 4) for accuracy and completeness.
• Establish and implement progress measurement methodologies aligned with project requirements, contractual milestones, and schedule of values.
• Monitor critical and near-critical activities, identify emerging schedule risks, and provide early warning of potential deviations and resource constraints.
• Prepare and analyze planned versus actual S-curves, resource histograms, look-ahead schedules, and milestone trackers for management review.
• Review weekly, monthly, and three-month look-ahead schedules submitted by contractors and verify alignment with the integrated master schedule.
• Verify reported physical progress through site records, documentation review, and coordination with field teams to ensure accuracy.
• Analyze schedule slippage, delays, and performance trends; recommend corrective, recovery, and acceleration measures.
• Support evaluation of extension-of-time claims through comprehensive delay-event chronology and schedule-impact analysis.
• Track long-lead equipment procurement, manufacturing, dispatch, site receipt, and installation to ensure timely project delivery.
• Integrate multiple project section schedules with interface requirements, including technical, operational, and energization dependencies.
• Maintain and update schedule-related assumptions, constraints, risk registers, and delay logs throughout the project lifecycle.
• Prepare management dashboards, executive summaries, and detailed schedule narratives for periodic progress reports and stakeholder communications.
• Support invoice certification and payment processing by verifying achievement of schedule-linked milestones and contractual requirements.
• Collaborate with project teams to resolve scheduling conflicts and optimize resource allocation across project activities.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in project planning and scheduling.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, integrate, and monitor complex project schedules.
• Experience in identifying schedule risks and implementing corrective measures.
• Strong analytical skills for preparing and analyzing project performance data.

Work Environment

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and involves working in a fast-paced, goal-oriented environment. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders on significant infrastructure initiatives.

Commitment to Recruitment Integrity

AECOM is committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process. All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.