Planning manager job details in Riyadh
Bechtel is managing the infrastructure program for Expo 2030 Riyadh Company (ERC), covering early works, utilities, and public spaces such as streets and parks on a six-square-kilometer site that later becomes a mixed-use legacy development. The planning manager keeps the schedule for this work on track, spots trends early and owns the reporting. The role sits under project controls, and relocation is authorized nationally and internationally on single status.
Responsibilities
- Leads the planning team on all planning and scheduling activities, starting with detailed staffing plans
- Builds every workstream’s scope into the total project plan, sets milestones and reviews scope in the schedules regularly
- Supports maintenance, integration and major updates of the client’s Project Development and Execution main schedule
- Analyzes schedule impacts, runs GAP analysis and recommends action plans to reduce schedule risk
- Reviews design scope and quantities, sets the level of quantification for each discipline and checks quantities for completeness
- Supervises resource loading and leveling, bulk commodity release and installation curves, and workforce needs by discipline
- Reviews the work logic of performing units and flags restraints and interdisciplinary interface problems affecting the overall schedule
- Coordinates key interfaces with other clusters and stakeholders and reflects them in the project schedule
Requirements
- Advanced skills in Primavera P6, MS Project, Power BI and MS Office
- Proven work on schedule development, control and variance analysis
- Ability to plan, direct, review and present schedule products independently with minimal supervision
- Knowledge of engineering design, construction and procurement practices, plus project management
- Strong leadership, organization and oral and written communication
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, which the listing describes as highly recommended
About Bechtel
Founded in 1898, Bechtel has completed more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries. It serves the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing and Technology markets, with services running from early planning and investment through start-up and operations.
How to apply
Candidates apply through Bechtel’s the application button below, where the opening carries requisition ID 300760.
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