SR. ENGINEER PLANNING

About El Seif Engineering Contracting

El Seif Engineering Contracting has a fifty-year history in the construction industry, focusing on meticulous planning and expert execution across diverse projects. The company emphasizes excellence, integrity, and innovation, aiming to deliver sustainable and impactful solutions in construction.

Role Overview: SR. ENGINEER - PLANNING

The Senior Engineer, Planning provides expert-level planning and scheduling services. This full-time role, based either at the company's HQ or on a project site, involves leading the development of competitive tender schedules or managing project baseline schedules. The position is responsible for monitoring progress, analyzing deviations, and conducting delay analyses for Extension of Time (EOT) claims. A minimum of 10 years of experience is required for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation of comprehensive, resource-loaded, and cost-loaded schedules, specifically Tender Schedules (HQ role) or Project Baseline Schedules (Project role), ensuring alignment with project scope and strategy.
• Develop and integrate logical work sequences and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) for all project disciplines.
• Monitor progress against the baseline, identify, analyze, and report schedule deviations, and recommend corrective actions or work-around solutions.
• Prepare and maintain Look-Ahead Schedules and Action Plans, leading weekly meetings to highlight delay risks and ensure accountability for mitigation actions.
• Implement standard delay analysis methodologies (*, Time Impact Analysis) to support the preparation of Extension of Time (EOT) claims (Project role).
• Review project documentation to identify and substantiate delay events (Project role) or to identify risks and assumptions for a bid (HQ role).
• Ensure all project controls data (WBS, CBS, budgets, schedules) is accurately set up and maintained in EPM/EPPM for tender proposals or active projects.
• Act as a key point of contact for schedule-related matters, liaising with tendering teams (HQ role) or project teams, clients, and consultants (Project role).
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) by deploying on short-term assignments to project(s) providing targeted support during critical project phases or to help implement new procedures (HQ role).
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to planning engineers and site teams (Project role) or to junior members of the tendering/planning team (HQ role) on scheduling best practices, project controls, and delay analysis.
• Act as a primary point of contact for schedule-related communications, ensuring alignment and clear understanding of project progress with clients and consultants (Project role) or tender schedule strategy with internal departments (HQ role).
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of planning processes, methodologies, and tools within the Project Planning Department, incorporating lessons learned from project execution or the tendering process.

Benefits and Compensation

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 a performance bonus, merit increase, and training and development opportunities may also be available based on eligibility. Salary details will be disclosed during the hiring process.

Compliance Requirements

• Comply with corporate information security policies and procedures relevant to the role.
• Preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Board and corporate information.
• Ensure access to sensitive information is restricted to authorized individuals.
• Protect organizational information assets from compromise.
• Comply with Data Protection and Intellectual Property Rights legislation applicable in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.