SR. ENGINEER PLANNING

About El Seif Engineering Contracting

El Seif Engineering Contracting operates with core values of excellence, integrity, and innovation. With five decades of experience across diverse industries, including public infrastructure, military, and defense applications, the company focuses on delivering results and pioneering sustainable solutions in the construction sector. This full-time position for a SR. ENGINEER - PLANNING is based in Riyadh.

Role Overview

The Sr. Engineer – Planning is responsible for preparing baseline and tender schedules, managing schedule updates, and monitoring project progress. This role involves administering schedules to clients and consultants, and providing support for delay analysis in relation to Extension of Time (EOT) Claims.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development of KSA national employees to achieve corporate objectives, Saudization targets, and knowledge dissemination.
• Conduct all affairs with high standards of respect, integrity, accountability, agility, quality, safety, and corporate governance, ensuring compliance with the Code of Ethics policy.
• Utilize systems and ERP implementations to prepare baseline schedules based on instructions, deadlines, work methodologies, project execution plans, procedures, procurement plans, and overall project strategies.
• Lead the preparation of Tender schedules, ensuring the correct scope of work is reflected.
• Integrate inter-discipline schedule requirements and constraints to establish logical work sequences.
• Develop specific work breakdown structures and recommend modifications for new work items.
• Provide site management with planned manpower requirements and identify preliminary risks, recommending corrective measures.
• Oversee data inputs for project execution plans and support the development of required plans (constructability, procurement, engineering, construction schedule, budgets, mobilization) as per submitted bids.
• Ensure budgets, schedules, WBS, and CBS are set up in EPM and EPPM, and that users are selected, trained, and assigned to projects.
• Support project controls resource activities on sites, monitoring equipment and manpower performance, material deliveries, wastage, and overall project cost controls.
• Identify, analyze, and monitor schedule deviations for assigned disciplines or specialties, including subcontractors, and recommend corrective actions or work-around solutions.
• Prepare action plans, arrange weekly action plan meetings, highlight delay risks, allocate ownership, and identify target dates for completion.
• Review all project documents to identify those related to delay events for the preparation of Extension of Time claims.
• Implement standard methods of delay analysis (*, as-planned impacted, time impact analysis) for EOT claims.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned by the Planning Department Manager.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 8 to 10 years of relevant experience.

Compensation and Benefits

This full-time position offers standard benefits including paid annual leave, public holidays, living allowances, healthcare coverage, and end-of-service benefits. Discretionary benefits such as performance bonuses, merit increases, and training and development opportunities may also be available based on eligibility.