Planning Engineer – Saudi National – Khobar

Think bigger scale. Think higher profile. Think ground-breaking. Join WSP, and you’ll be at the heart of a team of international experts all dedicated to growing and sharing their expertise, and working on projects that transform society for all of us.

As a Planning Engineer you will be responsible for managing and coordinating the project team and be one of the primary representatives of the consultant to the client as related to project matters.

Your new role, what’s involved?

• Ensure proactive project planning, stakeholder relations, and risk management takes place across projects
• Prepare and update the programme-wide enterprise schedules of all running & future projects in Primavera P6 Professional or Enterprise
• Create and review baselines, recovery/revised and updated periodic schedules
• Review Project Managers/ Resident Engineer’s weekly reports and provide Schedule inputs as required
• Incorporate additional works into Schedules as required and update / maintain additional works logs
• Review and manage contractors Schedules
• Regularly review resource usage against the schedule and recommend/take corrective action where required
• Establish Issue Register and follow-up issue’s impacting the project’s schedule
• Generate detailed and executive summary reports for higher management
• Monitor and analyze progress & efficiency of the project and report to supervisors and managers
• Maintain a database of projects progress
• Assist in the review and preparation of documents to support claims management and in particular extensions of time
• Present on all the above to Clients and internal managers

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Bachelors Degree in civil engineering or equivalent
• Previous experience in theme park PMC projects
• 10 years experience in a similar role

What’s in it for you?

What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!

WSP recognizes that work is only one part of our lives and making time for the other things in our life is important – be that our families, our friends or ourselves. So, if working from home, working part-time or having flexible start and finish time will help with this let us know as part of your application.

As well as rewarding you with competitive pay, WSP offers standard benefits including first class medical cover, generous days annual leave, and paid professional subscriptions.

Be you, be happy – we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects and maximizes the contribution individuals can bring to WSP. We recognize the benefits that people with varying backgrounds and experiences can bring. Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.