The opportunity

Project: This opportunity is to be involved in a major mixed-use development, in Riyadh. The programme consists of over 200 projects including cultural and heritage assets, F&B, retail and hotels, commercial buildings, and educational facilities.

Mace is currently providing programme management and looking for high-calibre experienced people. We are hiring an ambitious and forward-thinking planning manager to join our established and growing team in Saudi.

The role will have a general understanding of all aspects of planning and scheduling, how they complement each other and wider project delivery.

The role needs to have the ability to work within multidisciplinary teams and contribute towards analysing trends using numerical and statistical techniques.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing schedule/planning of limited complexity or participating in the delivery of medium/high complexity projects/programmes under direction.
• Understanding the overall project lifecycle in line with Mace way (control centre) from design through to handover.
• Being aware of current planning and scheduling methodologies.
• Building an understanding of the common tool sets used on typical Mace projects.
• Developing critical thinking skills to interrogate data and information.
• Negotiating with third parties as a planning/schedule management specialist.
• Responding to client/stakeholder requests effectively and sensitively.
• Providing excellent attention to detail and ability to validate and check data and reports, recording and reports produced, providing basic commentary and analysis.