Senior Planner - PMO

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Turner & Townsend is currently recruiting for a Senior Planner - PMO to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

With a leading client base and the opportunity to take the lead on strategic commissions and high-profile projects, this is an exciting time to join the business unit and grow a career with Turner & Townsend.

The role will be responsible for supporting PMO planning, scheduling, governance, reporting, and project controls activities across a portfolio of projects, contract packages, and work streams. The Senior Planner will develop and maintain integrated master schedules, coordinate schedule inputs, monitor programme performance, assess risks and delays, and provide reliable planning insights to support effective decision‑making.

The role requires proven PMO experience and the ability to coordinate planning information across multiple projects, contractors, vendors, suppliers, engineering teams, and construction disciplines. The Senior Planner will help ensure consistency, transparency, and alignment across project schedules and PMO reporting requirements.

• Implement Project Planning & Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations
• Assess, review and monitor detailed Primavera P6 schedules including WBS, activities, relationships, constraints, and resource loading according to Client Specifications.
• Conduct schedule analysis, forecasts, and performance tracking (e.g., SPI, CPI, Earned Value)
• Integrate various contract packages into master plan schedule
• Review contractor’s submitted schedule and make recommendations to client
• Prepare regular internal/external weekly and monthly progress report for management and client
• Develop a project control procedure to monitor the progress of project.
• Interact with contractor and verify the project data to update project schedule
• Support project management in key decision-making with reliable scheduling insights
• Develop mitigation plans
• Assess any contractor’s extension of time claim and prepare defense claim report
• Put forward recommendation report for any contractor’s EOT claim
• Analyze critical path and constraints to determine the effect of changes to project schedule. Ensure that the Financial Periods are set and followed by the Contractor in the Schedule
• Analyze and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order.
• Prepare resourcing plans for the overall and individual project phases, identifying any excessive peak numbers and making recommendations for peak leveling.
• Ensure that schedule related from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems.
• Working closely with various disciplines in project teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced.
• Provide onsite progress measurement and verification of billing.

• 10+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling.
• Proven experience working within a PMO environment.
• Expert experience using project scheduling tools (MS…