Senior Project Planner

Company Name: FIRST SAUDI CONTRACTING CO
Location: SaudiArabia
Posted by:

RAMI ELDANAB

RAMI ELDANAB

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain appropriate and accurate schedules to support efficient execution of work, cash flows and cost forecasts.
• Maintains project ledgers showing budget line items, commitments, expenditures and forecasts on select programs
• Flags significant projected overruns or underruns
• Ensures the integrity of the project budget through approved scope changes, fiscal changes and contingency reallocations
• Act as a single point contact for assigned project.
• Provide comprehensive and accurate schedule reports including appropriate level of analysis to ensure a “no surprise” approach.
• Support construction activities in the field.
• Closely monitor performance against realistic targets to ensure that objectives and KPI’s are met.
• Implement appropriate levels of field quantity & schedule analysis to validate projects’ field progress.
• Identify, analyze, and respond to project opportunities, risks, and uncertainties.
• Manage assigned scheduling resources.
•  Work with site resources to complete all closeout requirements
• Evaluate critical and near critical path activities.
• Meets with project team(s) to identify work activities and their flow.
•  Develops critical path construction schedule(s) and analyzes the path and other constraints to determine effect of changes to schedule and recommend “workaround”.
• Integrates project team logic and sequencing into the project schedule(s).
• Memorializes the historical timeline of the project(s).
•  Prepares draft schedules for review and approval.
• Develops and updates weekly short interval schedule(s) based on project team input.
• Updates schedule(s) based on project inputs and incorporates fragments into the schedule(s) to identify impacts.
• Alerts project team(s) of risks affecting project profit, costs, schedules and client relations.
• Advises project team(s) of potential activities that can be scheduled to enhance the project delivery and recommends alternate ways to push activities back to better manage resources.
• Works with Estimating to develop preliminary schedules
• Develop and Maintain Project Schedules
• Provide Analysis and evaluation of Project Schedules and milestones
• Prepare and understand schedules, be able to articulate cause and effect of schedule changes

 

Qualifications:



• 10+ years of relevant experience in planning, and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, in construction projects, required
• Bachelors Degree in Engineering with emphasis on Project Management.
• Good organizational skills a must.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment while being able to prioritize work to balance multiple projects and deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with customer interaction and presentation capabilities required.
• Experience using computer programs and software: Primavera, P6, Microsoft Projects, EXCEL, WORD, Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Ability to read, understand, and retain a working knowledge of contracts, specifications, drawings, and scope of work
• Has a knack for anticipating and predicting probable outcomes based on prior experiences and “what-if” scenarios
• Ability to work within a multi-functional team, recognizing and balancing various project needs against individual project requirements

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  EngineeringProject Management

• Industries

  ConstructionCivil Engineering