Senior Planner - Project Scheduling

Senior Planner
- Project Scheduling Job Snapshot Role:
Senior Planner
- Project Scheduling

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Construction Function:
Project-Program Management

Experience:

Minimum 10 years Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Senior Planner
- Project Scheduling in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Construction opportunity with Parsons Corporation focused on integrated planning, Primavera P6 scheduling, progress control, delay analysis, and project forecasting for major airport and infrastructure developments. The role is hiring an experienced planning professional to manage Level 3 and Level 4 schedules across Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, and Handover while providing reliable schedule intelligence for project management and senior leadership.

Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Construction Function:
Project-Program Management 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 Role Context The Senior Planner will provide the schedule structure and performance analysis required to keep complex multidisciplinary construction activities aligned with contractual milestones and operational priorities. The role connects engineering releases, procurement commitments, construction sequencing, commissioning, testing, and handover into a single integrated planning framework. Through accurate progress measurement, critical path analysis, forecasting, and early identification of delay risks, the planner will help management protect completion dates and make timely recovery decisions.

• Develop and maintain detailed Level 3 and Level 4 project schedules in accordance with approved project requirements.
• Establish Work Breakdown Structures, activity coding, calendars, logic relationships, milestones, and scheduling methodologies.
• Prepare baseline schedules aligned with approved scope, execution strategies, contractual requirements, and key completion dates.
• Integrate Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, testing, and Handover activities into coordinated master schedules.
• Develop detailed construction schedules covering civil, structural, MEP, infrastructure, utilities, airfield, and specialist works.
• Review Contractor and Subcontractor schedules and verify alignment with approved project baselines and interface requirements.
• Analyze schedule logic, sequencing, constraints, float, interfaces, critical path, and near-critical activities.
• Update schedules using verified progress, approved changes, revised forecasts, and current site information.
• Collect progress data from Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, and supporting project functions.
• Validate reported progress against physical site status, approved documentation, quantities, inspections, and other supporting evidence.
• Compare actual performance against baseline and identify schedule deviations, emerging slippage, and critical constraints.
• Develop recovery schedules, acceleration scenarios, and mitigation plans for delayed activities.
• Provide early warning of schedule risks and recommend corrective actions before delays affect contractual milestones.
• Monitor interfaces between design disciplines, procurement packages, construction activities, specialist systems, and commissioning sequences.
• Track contractual milestones, access dates, design approvals, authority approvals, handover requirements, and key project dependencies.
• Monitor long-lead equipment and material procurement activities and assess their impact on construction and completion dates.
• Coordinate with Procurement teams to track manufacturing, shipment, delivery, and required-on-site dates.
• Integrate engineering deliverables, design reviews, approvals, and release dates into project schedules.
• Monitor construction productivity and compare achieved production rates against planned assumptions.
• Establish activity weightings and progress measurement rules where required.
• Develop and maintain S-curves, progress curves, manpower histograms, dashboards, and schedule…