Job Description

Overview

AtkinsRéalis is looking for a Senior Planning Engineer based in AlUla, KSA.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Planning Engineer , to support the successful delivery of high-profile mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations, cultural assets, and recreational landmark projects in the middles east. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules, providing strategic planning support, and delivering schedule performance analysis across all phases of project delivery.

Your role

Ability to develop initial baseline schedules with little project information. This requires mixed-use developments, hospitality destinations, cultural assets, and recreational landmark projects.
Assist in the preparation and management of overview and strategic programmes, including design, procurement and construction schedules together with supporting information required schedules
Include all project stages from initiations to completion in the baseline and identify stage gates accordingly.
Coordinate and manage the preparation and development of master planning, engineering, procurement, and construction schedules together with associated information required schedules
Establish and agree project reporting procedures, prepare and present monthly project progress. Develop project and programme dashboard templates to be used across the programme by designer and contractors.
Review the schedules and related documents from the designers and contractors including monthly reports and analyse the content to ensure compliance with project objectives
Review schedule trends to identify problem areas and recommend corrective action to management. Monitor actual progress against planned progress
Monitor engineering design progress, material and equipment procurement and construction and commissioning status
Prepare progress monitoring tools using earned value for the management and monitoring of the above mentioned schedules. Monitor progress both on and off site. Identify deviations (progress trends) in both construction and procurement progress and suggest possible courses of corrective action
Working closely with the Project Controls Manager and Project Team to ensure that the 'programme' is feasible, complies with the Project Master Plan and contractual documents
Interface on a daily basis with the designers, PMCs, main contractor sub contractors and internal management.
Carry out studies into scheduling, manpower, cash flow, and material flow as needed
Attend offsite meetings as requested by the client
Review schedules for slippage of key dates
Assist in the defence / approval of any claim for time extension or major change to the schedule
Other duties as requested from time to time
Ensuring that each Planning Engineer runs his or her section to the highest professional standards, that all information is current, and that every member of the team is receiving the information he or she needs to fulfil their responsibilities.
Establish and maintain consistent and adequate administration procedures, in their field. These procedures will be followed across the project by the respective planners working under the Construction Managers.
Participate with the project management team, as directed by the Project Director, to achieve project deliverables.
Involve key stakeholder requirements and approvals in the baseline
Issue high-level schedule weekly updates
Identify and report main issues interfering with progress
Identify and report on measures for improving schedule performance
Establish Scheduling, reporting procedures, tools, templates, instruction, etc. to standardize the work across the programme.
Monitor the timing of submittals against schedule requirements
Develop and monitor programme KPIs

About you

Ideally you should possess a degree in construction management and / or civil engineering and hold a membership/chartership from a construction related professional body.
Generally, you will have 15 years of experience and have a track record of working on heritage/ hotels/master planning/ museum / cultural / pavilion projects, ideally with minimum 5 years' experience working in the region.
Arabic speaking and writing an advantage

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

Tax-free salary.
Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
Generous annual leave balance.
Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
Remote work opportunities outside of country.
Company gratuity scheme.
Discretionary bonus program.
Annual flight contribution.
Relocation assistance.
Transportation & housing allowances (available for remote work locations).
Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.