Planning and Scheduling Engineer

**Key Responsibilities:** * Develop, review and maintain integrated master schedules for dam O\&M projects and related program activities. * Review contractors’ baseline schedules, detailed work programs, maintenance schedules and schedule updates. * Confirm that submitted schedules reflect contractual requirements, approved scope, key milestones and delivery priorities. * Establish work breakdown structures, activity coding, calendars, logical relationships, milestones and schedule\-control procedures. * Integrate civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, instrumentation, inspection and maintenance activities into coordinated schedules. * Monitor progress against approved baseline and current schedules. * Measure actual progress using approved progress\-measurement methods and supporting records. * Analyze planned\-versus\-actual performance, critical paths, float consumption and schedule trends. * Identify variances, emerging delays, sequencing conflicts, resource constraints and potential milestone impacts. * Prepare schedule forecasts and estimate future resource, equipment, material and delivery requirements. * Coordinate maintenance work schedules with operations teams, contractors, consultants and relevant stakeholders. * Support the scheduling of preventive, predictive, corrective and emergency maintenance activities. * Coordinate work windows, shutdowns, equipment isolation and return\-to\-service requirements with operational teams. * Maintain short\-term, medium\-term and long\-term schedules, including weekly and monthly look\-ahead plans. * Review contractors’ manpower and equipment deployment against planned requirements. * Assess the time impact of scope changes, variations, claims, delayed approvals and other project events. * Support delay analysis and provide factual schedule information for contractual and management reviews. * Recommend corrective actions, schedule\-recovery measures and revised sequencing where required. * Review recovery schedules and monitor the implementation and effectiveness of approved recovery plans. * Maintain schedule assumptions, constraints, progress records, productivity data and supporting documentation. * Develop schedule dashboards, progress curves, milestone trackers and management\-reporting tools. * Calculate and report planning and scheduling KPIs, including progress variance, milestone performance, schedule adherence and forecast completion. * Reconcile schedule information with SAP maintenance plans, work orders and other project\-control systems. * Support risk reviews by identifying schedule risks, assessing potential impacts and monitoring mitigation actions. * Participate in progress meetings, planning workshops, schedule reviews and coordination sessions. * Work within a 60\-month national program supporting the operation, maintenance, quality improvement and risk reduction of approximately 574 dams across Saudi Arabia. * Prepare clear daily, weekly, monthly, annual and technical reports as required by the assignment. * Coordinate with government stakeholders, consultants, contractors and multidisciplinary teams. * Attend meetings, inspections and site visits anywhere in Saudi Arabia as required. * Comply with Saudi laws, applicable codes, Client procedures, quality requirements and occupational health and safety obligations. **Minimum Requirements:** * Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent discipline from a recognized university. * Minimum 8 years of professional experience in planning and scheduling, including project\-planning responsibilities. * Demonstrated experience developing, updating and analyzing baseline, master, detailed and recovery schedules. * Strong practical capability in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office and SAP maintenance scheduling. * Experience measuring progress, analyzing schedule variance and preparing completion forecasts. * Knowledge of critical\-path analysis, resource loading, schedule logic, progress curves and look\-ahead planning. * Experience coordinating schedules across contractors, consultants, operations teams and multidisciplinary engineering functions. * Understanding of preventive, corrective and emergency maintenance planning. * Strong data\-analysis, technical\-reporting and stakeholder\-coordination skills. * Relevant experience must be supported by verifiable employment records, project references, reports or studies when requested.