Senior Planning Manager

Job description

Role of Senior Planning Manager at the employer in Riyadh. Responsible for coordinating planning and scheduling with Project Management Consultants (PMCs) and defining and maintaining Primavera P6 standards within a major infrastructure program. Duties include defining the EPPM P6 EPS hierarchy, ensuring alignment of planning tools with PMIS and data warehouse, integrating schedule data across systems, supporting enhancements to planning and reporting tools, managing the EPPM P6 environment with monthly archiving, developing a weighting system for progress measurement, producing and updating the Master Procurement Schedule, creating and maintaining program‑level and portfolio‑level Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), verifying inclusion of all project scopes in IMS and managing interfaces and critical paths, producing IMS baseline documents and monthly IMS packs, reporting percent complete at district, program and portfolio levels, developing an overall Development Master Schedule, governing PMC Level 3 baseline schedules, managing baseline change control, performing schedule performance analysis, providing independent quality assurance of PMC schedules, supporting forecast and recovery schedule management, conducting detailed Level 4 contractor schedule analysis, and capturing lessons learned and mentoring teams

Requirements

• Minimum 15 years experience in planning and scheduling roles
• Proficiency in Primavera P6
• Knowledge of project planning and coordination standards
• Ability to manage databases and system integration
• Experience in preparing and analyzing performance reports
• Skills in documenting and managing schedule changes
• Ability to provide independent quality assurance
• Proficiency in developing and updating integrated schedules at program and portfolio levels
• Skills in guiding and training project teams

Skills