Planning Manager - Project Scheduling

Planning Manager
- Project Scheduling Job Snapshot Role:
Planning Manager
- Project Scheduling

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Construction Function:
Production Engineering/Planning/Scheduling

Experience:

Minimum 10 years Job Type: Full-time

Planning Manager
- Project Scheduling in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Construction opportunity for an experienced planning professional capable of leading integrated scheduling across a high-value luxury development program. The role is focused on developing resource-loaded schedules, controlling critical path performance, reviewing consultant and contractor programs, coordinating design and construction interfaces, and providing management with reliable schedule intelligence for complex project delivery.

Job Details Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Construction Function:
Production Engineering/Planning/Scheduling Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any Job Type: Full-time

• Lead development, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive project schedules for complex design and construction activities.
• Produce logically structured and resource-loaded programs that incorporate dependencies across disciplines, packages, contractors, and project areas.
• Develop baseline, target, recovery, and updated schedules in accordance with approved planning procedures.
• Ensure scheduling activities comply with the Schedule Management Plan and established project controls processes.
• Monitor consultant and contractor progress against approved programs and identify emerging schedule deviations.
• Review contractor and consultant schedules for logic, sequencing, durations, interfaces, resources, milestones, and contractual requirements.
• Analyse schedule performance and identify trends requiring management intervention.
• Monitor critical path activities and evaluate their impact on overall project completion.
• Recommend corrective actions and practical mitigation measures when delays or performance issues arise.
• Coordinate with project teams to ensure agreed recovery measures are implemented and reflected in updated schedules.
• Perform weekly and monthly schedule updates as design, procurement, and construction activities progress.
• Review project progress tracking and reporting information before formal submission.
• Ensure schedule information remains accurate, consistent, traceable, and supported by appropriate documentation.
• Preserve planning records and backup documentation in coordination with information management teams.

Planning leadership will extend beyond schedule preparation into broader project controls coordination.

• Provide guidance to planning teams on scheduling, resources, cost interfaces, and risk considerations.
• Support resource planning by determining required workforce and resource levels across project stages.
• Integrate engineering, procurement, and construction requirements into coordinated work sequences.
• Identify interdisciplinary dependencies and establish logical relationships between project activities.
• Coordinate with performing organisations to align individual work packages with the total project program.
• Review schedule data prepared for proposals, commercial discussions, and contract negotiations.
• Work closely with the commercial function to strengthen integrated controls covering budgets, costs, risks, changes, and reporting.
• Support alignment between project schedules and commercial or contractual requirements.
• Participate in strategic planning exercises with project leadership and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Provide planning inputs for the establishment and improvement of processes and procedures.
• Evaluate schedule trends, slippage, float erosion, milestone movement, and potential critical path changes.
• Identify schedule risks and develop realistic mitigation plans with project teams.
• Evaluate contractor delay exposure and elevate significant concerns to management.
• Analyse the effect of design decisions, procurement activity, interfaces, and resource availability on project timelines.
• Identify opportunities to improve sequencing and accelerate delivery where technically achievable.
• Support management in assessing alternative delivery scenarios and recovery strategies.
• Ensure schedule reporting clearly communicates key constraints, priorities, and required actions.

The Planning Manager will also lead coordination and team performance.

• Manage, coach, and mentor junior planning professionals to strengthen technical capability and delivery quality.
• Allocate planning activities effectively and monitor completion against required deadlines.
• Promote knowledge sharing across the planning team and relevant internal stakeholders.
• Respond accurately and promptly to questions relating to schedule submissions, assumptions, and progress.
• Encourage collaboration between planning, design, construction, commercial, project controls, and other delivery…