Planning & Scheduling Manager📣 Job Ad

About the Role

HanmiGlobal Saudi is seeking a qualified Planning & Scheduling Manager to join its program management and PMCM team. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Role Overview

The Planning & Scheduling Manager will lead integrated program scheduling and baseline controls for a large-scale, multi-work package land and infrastructure development program in Riyadh. This role involves providing program-level leadership, governance, coordination, and analytical oversight to ensure the Integrated Program Baseline Schedule (IPBS) aligns with program scope, milestones, forecasting, risk assessments, and client reporting requirements, supporting the successful delivery of the development program.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Integrated Program Baseline Schedule (IPBS) by reviewing, validating, and integrating schedules from Lead Developers and delivery partners.
• Establish program-wide planning standards, scheduling procedures, governance requirements, coding structures, and reporting protocols.
• Coordinate planning and scheduling activities across package teams to align individual project schedules with overall program milestones.
• Monitor schedule performance against baselines, identifying critical path activities, delays, variances, interface constraints, and emerging risks.
• Perform Critical Path Method (CPM) analysis, schedule forecasting, Earned Value Management (EVM), delay analysis, and time impact assessments.
• Review and validate recovery plans and mitigation strategies.
• Prepare integrated schedule reports, executive dashboards, KPIs, forecasting analyses, and management presentations.
• Coordinate with Project Controls, Commercial, Technical, Design, Interface, and Risk Management teams for integrated reporting.
• Ensure the integrity of planning data and compliance with PMCM reporting requirements.
• Provide functional leadership, mentoring, and technical oversight to Package Planning & Scheduling Engineers.
• Lead planning review meetings, coordination workshops, and stakeholder sessions, promoting continuous improvement and effective use of Primavera P6, PMIS, EDMS, and digital project controls systems.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Chartered Professional membership or equivalent professional accreditation.
• Minimum fifteen (15) years of professional experience in planning and scheduling for major infrastructure, land development, transportation, utilities, urban development, or mega-project programs.
• Experience within PMCM, PMC, EPCM, or client-side organizations, preferably on major projects in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.

Core Competencies

• Primavera P6 & Integrated Program Scheduling
• Integrated Program Baseline Schedule (IPBS) Management
• Critical Path Method (CPM) & Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Schedule Forecasting & Performance Monitoring
• Delay Analysis & Recovery Planning
• Schedule Risk Assessment & Interface Management
• PMIS, EDMS & Digital Project Controls
• KPI Development & Executive Reporting
• Program Governance & Change Management
• Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Communication, and Problem Solving