Lead Planner

Requisition ID: 279067

• Relocation Authorized: International - Camp
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location: Sharma

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Project Overview:

Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company will provide executive project management consultancy services (including technical, commercial, and construction management) for the development of certain defined aspects of the NEOM Infrastructure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. NEOM is a planned cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia. The site is near the Red Sea and the borders of Egypt, and Jordan. It will cover a total area of 26,500 km2 (10,200 sq. mi) and will extend 460 km along the coast of the Red Sea. NEOM will be the home and workplace to more than a million residents from around the world. It will include towns and cities, ports and enterprise zones, research centers, sports and entertainment venues, and tourist destinations. As a hub for innovation, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and companies will come to research, incubate, and commercialize new technologies and enterprises in groundbreaking ways.

Job Summary:

The Lead Planner supervises schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities, supports project organizational and administrative activities, and supervises the development and integration of individual schedules into the total project plan. The Lead Planner also establishes project milestones, supervises schedule resource loading and leveling, and supports the development of scheduling standards and procedures.

Major Responsibilities:

• Directs all program level schedule development and maintenance monitoring activities.
• Develops, interprets, and executes policy objectives and standards applicable to schedule maintenance and the monitoring of development functions.
• Oversees the implementation of milestone schedules, engineering/procurement/construction closeout monitoring including documentation and planned maintenance activities.
• Performs schedule reviews to ensure compliance with Client’s expectation and coordinate the required level of integration among the major contractors.
• Represents the Client in meetings with the major contractors.
• Performs and/or coordinates, collects, verifies, and integrates the work scope for all entities into the total project plan.
• Reviews the representation of project scope in schedules.
• Establishes the conceptual scope of schedule studies. Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope and quantities between the projects.
• Performs productivity analysis of construction operations and verifies.
• Establishes productivity basis to be utilized in estimates, as developed in concurrence with Construction.
• Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness.
• Manages the preparation of subject-specific schedules on an as-required basis.
• Supports the development and integration of individual schedules into the total project plan.
• Reviews the performing organizations and unit’s work logics and determines whether the schedules will adequately support the overall project schedule.
• Plans, coordinates, and establishes the level of quantification appropriate to the objectives of the effort and to the level of scope definition for each discipline or specialty and designates reference job(s) for source data and/or reconciliations of quantities.
• Reviews completeness and reasonableness of quantities.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 14-17 years of relevant work experience.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience and demonstrated skill in directing, planning, and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office.
• Experience and demonstrated skill in establishing criteria for project planning and scheduling activities.
• Skilled in direction, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Skilled in oral and written communication, with a demonstrated ability to present planning and scheduling information to management and clients.
• Demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and solving problems.
• Knowledgeable about current industry and technical developments.
• Primavera P6 experience.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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