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About the Role

AECOM is seeking a Planning Engineer to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves developing, integrating, and monitoring comprehensive project schedules, along with 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.

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 warnings 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

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or an equivalent discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in planning, scheduling, and control of large-scale infrastructure or construction projects.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and/or other approved enterprise project-planning software.
• Demonstrated expertise in critical path analysis, delay analysis, and schedule-impact assessment.
• Strong knowledge of progress measurement methodologies and earned-value management principles.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel, and data visualization tools for schedule reporting and analysis.
• Solid understanding of work breakdown structures (WBS), activity logic, resource loading, and schedule constraints.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies such as PMP (Project Management Professional) or PRINCE2 is preferred.
• Familiarity with infrastructure, power, or heavy industrial projects is highly desirable.
• Experience with schedule recovery planning and acceleration strategies.

Required Skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex project data and identify trends.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear, concise reports and present findings to senior management.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in stakeholder management and managing competing project priorities.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple schedules simultaneously.
• Proficiency in time management and the ability to meet tight deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to work independently and take initiative while remaining flexible and adaptable to changing project requirements.

Work Environment

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and involves working in a fast-paced, goal-oriented environment focused on significant infrastructure initiatives. The role requires collaboration with diverse teams and stakeholders to ensure project success.