Senior Planner

**Key Responsibilities:** * Review and assess Contractor baseline and updated programmes for compliance with project requirements. * Verify integration of design, approvals, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities. * Independently monitor actual progress against approved planned progress. * Perform critical path, float, schedule variance, and trend analyses. * Validate Contractor\-reported progress against actual site conditions and verified accomplishments. * Identify delays, programme risks, trends, and potential impacts on key milestones. * Review Contractor recovery programmes and mitigation measures. * Review and monitor Contractor look\-ahead schedules. * Monitor design and procurement activities that may impact construction progress. * Monitor interfaces, dependencies, and constraints between project packages and stakeholders. * Develop PMC planning dashboards, progress curves, schedule reports, and management updates. * Support the assessment and review of Extension of Time (EOT) submissions. * Coordinate programme information with Construction, Commercial, Contracts, Engineering, and other project functions. * Forecast project completion dates and key project milestones based on current performance and trends. * Monitor testing, commissioning, handover, and close\-out milestones. * Provide independent programme assessments, recommendations, and early warnings to the Client. * Support project planning meetings and communicate key schedule issues and recommendations to project stakeholders. **Minimum Requirements:** * Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related discipline. * Minimum 15–22 years of total professional experience. * 10–12 years of experience in similar planning/scheduling roles. * 8–12 years of GCC/KSA experience. * Strong experience in PMC or engineering consultancy environments providing independent programme oversight is preferred. * Proven experience on infrastructure D\&B, major urban development, or mixed\-use development projects. * Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6 and project scheduling principles. * Strong understanding of baseline management, critical path analysis, float analysis, progress measurement, delay analysis, and schedule forecasting. * Experience reviewing Contractor programmes, recovery schedules, look\-ahead programmes, and EOT submissions. * Strong understanding of design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities and their schedule interfaces. * Excellent analytical, reporting, communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills. * Saudi Arabia/GCC project experience is strongly preferred.