Senior Planner

Currie & Brown is looking for a Senior Planner with hospitality experience in Riyadh, KSA. Roles at this level will be part of the project management team and lead the planning function across one or multiple projects.

• Develop and manage the master programme for the project
• Ongoing monitoring and reporting of all programme-related activities
• Proactive management of contractor’s programmes
• Detailed reviews of contractor programmes
• Monitoring the planning and project controls works for conformance with project procedures
• Develop and monitor the permitting and authority approvals process for the project
• Prepare baseline programmes
• Prepare monthly reports and recovery plans (when applicable)
• Preparing and finalizing weekly progress report submissions and weekly quantity reports
• Provide the Project Manager with weekly progress updates, forecast completions, together with critical path and trend analyses
• Consistent assessment of the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and ‘what if’ scenarios to aid project management decision-making
• Work collaboratively with the Project Manager, Engineer and Contractor in resolving any and all project schedule issues
• Review and analyze contractors’ claims and prepare recommendations reports

What do you need?

• 12+ years’ relevant experience
• BSc in civil engineering or equivalent engineering degree
• Must have considerable pre-contract and post-contract experience on major projects
• Strong experience of large buildings projects
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Primavera certification and working experience
• Experience with 4D BIM