Sr. Project Controls Engineer (Planning)

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Project Overview:

Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company is providing 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 city in the Tabuk Province of north-western Saudi Arabia. The site is near the Red Sea and the borders of Egypt, Israel, 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 centres, 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 ground-breaking ways.

Job Summary:

Working within project management consultancy environment (PMC). Performs or supervises work done by other entities related to schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities. Responsible for scheduling activities for large projects; or major projects with significant non-routine requirements; or discipline/project/proposal estimating or staff planning activities that require a high degree of technical skill and experience. Supports/performs project organizational and administrative activities. Demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and providing innovative solutions to planning and scheduling problems. Provides generally non-routine scheduling guidance to projects.

Major Responsibilities:

• Prepares detailed staffing plans for planning and scheduling activities. Reviews design scope criteria and quantities. Performs in-depth analysis to identify project schedule impacts and organizes with the project to develop additional estimating bases when information is incomplete. 
• Makes recommendations to the client on action plans to mitigate schedule risks and schedule GAP analysis.
• Helps the maintenance, improvement, integration and major updates of the Client Development and Execution main schedule.
• Answerable for organizing the work scope for all entities into the total project plan. Performs regular reviews of project scope in schedules, includes establishing the conceptual scope of schedule studies.
• Establishes milestones for the total project or major portions of the project. Reviews project work activities to ensure help of project milestones. Organizes the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
• Reviews the performing organization’s and unit’s work logics and finds whether the schedules will adequately help the overall project schedule. Plans, organizes, 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.
• Obtains required schedule information by all disciplines. Identifies schedule restraints and their effects on the total project schedule. Works with all departments to ensure an understanding of the total project schedule needs. Answerable for total integration of schedule activities. Identifies schedule considerations and problems resulting from interdisciplinary or group restraints and interfaces.
• Verifies consistency with previous reports to ensure compatibility. Answerable for issuing reports required by Bechtel management and project procedures.
• Helps the development of scheduling standards and procedures. Compiles, summarizes, updates, and maintains historical schedule data. Monitors and reports the critical path and schedule performance of the total project.
• Organizes information input into specific studies. Answerable for integration of activities and total work scope identification. Evaluates study results and recommend conclusions for project team consideration and discussion. Supervises/directs project schedule staffing and quantity reporting.
• Answerable for preparing and presenting the Schedule Impact Report. Answerable for leading the development and review of schedule recovery plans, including evaluation of additional resources/costs required to affect such plans.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• BSc in Engineering with 15 years of experience in mega projects delivery
• 10 years in project planning and scheduling in large company
• Experience in KSA / GCC region (Highly recommended)
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products independently with minimal supervision. This includes using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design, construction, and procurement practices.
• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and variance analysis.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Strong leadership and organizational Skills.
• Skilled in developing sophisticated progress reports.
• Knowledge of project management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
• Advanced level of knowledge in MS Office, Power-BI, Primavera P6 and MS project.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office.
• Knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Advanced level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes.
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products independently with minimal supervision. This includes using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design, construction, and procurement practices.

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