Senior Planning Manager
WSP
- Saudi Arabia
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide leadership for planning and scheduling, progress measurement, and reporting for the entire project
- Provide guidance, direction, and specialized assistance to planning staff, interface with client, attend regular meetings, and provide statistical reports
- Develop, implement and maintain planning, processes, procedure, systems and tools and monitor compliance
- Provide guidance and direction for the resolution of planning and issues as they arise.
- Provide regular summary reports to the Project Management team to provide awareness of key project parameters, and assist with exceptions
- Setting-up Primavera Project Management System P6v2 for program management across the planning team with all stakeholders.
- Preparing the master programme for the project.
- Preparing the daily escalation report for project managers.
- Assisting in the consultant selection process for commercial and technical evaluation.
- Assisting in establishing / delivering formal reporting arrangements on project progress for the client and project.
- Reviewing contract documents, suggesting changes for planning and programming aspects and the addition of new clauses if necessary.
- Arranging planning workshops/meetings to discuss and assist contractors / consultants to close their planning / project control issues.
- Challenge any claims and EOT requests.
- Making recommendations for possible acceleration.
- Developing the document control system and communication flow for the project.
- Reviewing construction programmes received from contractors and analysing them in line with the contractual requirements.
- Ensuring procurement, material and submittal logs are created and maint
- A Degree in Civil Engineering or related fields
- Minimum 20 years post-graduate experience
- Extensive experience with consultancies
- Previous experience in Project Management
- Good knowledge and experience of the project lifecycle for hotels and mixed use projects in respect to planning, cost and schedule control
- Good knowledge of the design process and construction methodologies
- Experienced Project Controls professional with good technical skills (i.e. critical path, earned value, etc)
- Experience in the application of Primavera P6, and knowledge of Primavera contract manager on hotels and mixed use development projects