JOB DESCRIPTION

My client, a leading international contractor has an urgent opening for a Senior Planning Engineer with strong experience in large construction projects for a project in Riyadh.

Roles and Responsibilities:

* Provides planning, progress monitoring services and have significant impact and input on the planning and organizational issues and relevant decision making of the project's Senior Management Team.
* Review contract documentation to ensure a thorough understanding of the contract requirements.
* Fully develops a detailed and fully loaded Project Schedule, (Baseline Schedule)
* Updates the overall programs. Prepares in conjunction with the Construction staff the detailed short-term working programs as necessary.
* Checks progress on the above programs by frequent site inspection, and stresses to site supervisors the need to adhere to the required sequences and durations of the scheduled activities.
* Production of daily / weekly programs showing hourly resource allocation for manpower, plant and factory production items.
* Prepares programs as required prior to the letting of sub-contracts to arrange continuity of work for the sub-contractor. and checks to ensure that their activities are kept in line with contract requirements.
* Prepares and updates labour resource programs showing the work force required for each direct trade, and for major sub-contractors.
* Prepares programs for major site operations and production facilities.
* Monitors all change orders to the contract to make certain that all additions and deletions are incorporated in revisions of the Baseline Schedule
* Advises management on delay and disruption events and the impact on the baseline schedule and supports in the production of Claims.

Requirements: