Senior Planning Manager

About the Role

Parsons is seeking a Senior Planning Manager to lead and manage planning and scheduling activities for large, complex construction projects during their construction phase. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and requires a professional with over 10 years of experience.

Role Purpose and Context

The Senior Planning Manager will provide strategic leadership for construction planning and scheduling. The primary objective is to ensure that project progress is accurately measured, potential delays are identified early, and effective recovery actions are implemented. This role is critical for delivering projects in line with approved milestones, budget, quality requirements, and contractual obligations. The Senior Planning Manager will collaborate closely with project directors, construction managers, contractors, consultants, and various internal and client teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and control the master construction schedule.
• Coordinate detailed schedules for all construction activities, work packages, interfaces, and key milestones.
• Review and approve contractor and subcontractor schedules, updates, and recovery plans.
• Monitor planned versus actual progress and verify reported progress against site activities.
• Analyze critical paths, float, constraints, logic, and schedule trends.
• Identify potential delays and provide early warnings to project management.
• Assess the impact of design changes, variations, access restrictions, procurement delays, approvals, and construction issues.
• Develop recovery and mitigation plans to protect project milestones and completion dates.
• Lead weekly and monthly schedule review meetings with contractors and project teams.
• Prepare schedule reports, progress dashboards, milestone reports, and executive presentations.
• Coordinate with cost-control and commercial teams to align schedule progress with project costs and forecasts.
• Support the evaluation of extension-of-time claims and delay-related submissions.
• Ensure that approved changes are incorporated into the project schedule and baseline.
• Monitor the performance of contractors against contractual schedules and agreed milestones.
• Coordinate interfaces between construction disciplines, contractors, authorities, utilities, and other stakeholders.
• Promote effective planning procedures, reporting standards, and schedule-control practices across the project.
• Provide guidance and leadership to planning engineers and project controls staff.

Required Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in planning and scheduling for large, complex construction projects.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a multidisciplinary project team, collaborating with various internal departments, contractors, consultants, and client teams to ensure project success.