Senior Planning Manager - Operational Readiness

Role:
Senior Planning Manager

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Construction

Function:
Project-Program Management

Experience:

Minimum 15 years

Job Type: Full Time

Parsons is seeking a Senior Planning Manager in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to lead project planning, scheduling, and operational readiness activities for large-scale project delivery. The role requires extensive planning expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to coordinate complex schedules involving multiple departments, projects, contractors, and technical stakeholders. A central responsibility will be establishing and managing critical path activities required to bring an operational facility to public opening.

The Senior Planning Manager will integrate procurement, design, technology, project delivery, facilities maintenance, tenant fit-out, testing and commissioning, and handover activities into coordinated schedules that provide clear visibility of dependencies, risks, milestones, and readiness requirements.

Country:
Saudi Arabia

City:
Riyadh

Industry: Construction

Function:
Project-Program Management

Salary:
Not disclosed

Gender: No Preference

Candidate Nationality:
Not specified

Work Arrangement:
On-site

• Develop and implement comprehensive project plans and integrated schedules.
• Establish planning requirements and scheduling methodologies appropriate to project objectives.
• Define critical path activities, dependencies, milestones, and delivery interfaces.
• Coordinate planning activities across multiple departments within the Client organization.
• Work closely with project managers, engineers, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain alignment between project objectives, schedules, resources, and delivery priorities.
• Monitor project progress against approved plans and schedules.
• Adjust schedules when changes, delays, constraints, or emerging requirements affect delivery.
• Maintain accurate planning information to support management decisions.
• Manage multiple project planning priorities while maintaining schedule integrity.

• The Senior Planning Manager will establish an integrated planning framework that connects project delivery with the activities required for an operational facility to open to the public.
• Develop schedules covering operational readiness requirements.
• Integrate procurement activities with design and delivery milestones.
• Coordinate technology-related dependencies within the overall program.
• Incorporate facilities maintenance readiness into project planning.
• Coordinate tenant fit-out activities with wider delivery schedules.
• Integrate testing and commissioning requirements.
• Establish handover activities and associated dependencies.
• Identify the critical path through construction completion, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness.
• Monitor interfaces between individual work streams that could affect the planned opening.
• Provide schedule visibility for activities requiring cross-department coordination.

• Monitor progress against established schedules and milestones.
• Prepare project planning and scheduling reports for senior management.
• Develop and maintain project dashboards.
• Use planning data to communicate schedule performance and emerging constraints.
• Track project status using appropriate project management software and reporting tools.
• Identify schedule deviations and recommend appropriate corrective measures.
• Maintain clear reporting on critical activities, risks, resources, and timelines.
• Support timely management decisions through accurate planning information.

• Identify planning and scheduling risks that could affect project delivery.
• Develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Monitor schedule impacts arising from project changes and constraints.
• Resolve planning issues and conflicts arising during project execution.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to address dependencies affecting critical milestones.
• Support management of project budgets, resources, and timelines.
• Ensure planning activities comply with applicable industry standards, regulations, and best practices.

• Lead and coordinate planning personnel supporting project delivery.
• Mentor planning staff and strengthen their technical capabilities.
• Provide direction on planning methods, scheduling practices, and reporting requirements.
• Review team outputs for accuracy and…