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Key Responsibilities
- Manage planning and scheduling for renovation of a high-rise, five-star hotel.
- Review baseline programme logic, sequencing, durations, calendars, constraints, resource loading, and cost loading.
- Ensure planning covers design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, phased handovers, and closeout.
- Monitor critical paths, progress against baseline, completion forecasts, schedule risks, and management decisions.
- Prepare progress reports, S-curves, manpower histograms, milestone trackers, dashboards, and look-ahead schedules.
- Perform Earned Value Analysis and report schedule and cost performance indicators.
- Analyse variances and monitor mitigation, acceleration, recovery, and revised programmes.
- Assess schedule impacts from design changes, approvals, procurement, access restrictions, and phased handovers.
- Review Extension of Time claims using Time Impact Analysis or other recognised delay-analysis methods.
- Coordinate planning with the Project Manager, Quantity Surveyor, engineers, client, contractor, and procurement stakeholders.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- Valid Saudi Council of Engineers registration is mandatory.
- At least 15 years of construction planning, scheduling, and project controls experience is required.
- Experience with high-rise buildings, five-star hotels, luxury hospitality developments, or major renovations is required.
- Strong experience in phased brownfield renovation, testing and commissioning, and sectional handovers is required.
- Expert Primavera P6 and advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency are required; Microsoft Project and dashboard tools are also required.
- Knowledge of baseline development, critical paths, resource loading, progress measurement, forecasting, and Earned Value Analysis is required.
- Experience with S-curves, manpower histograms, dashboards, look-ahead programmes, Extension of Time claims, and Time Impact Analysis is required.
- Experience with engineering consultancies or construction supervision consultants is required.
- Madinah Central Area or similar congested-location experience is preferred.
- PMI-SP, AACE Planning and Scheduling Professional, or equivalent certification is preferred.
- Written and spoken English is mandatory; Arabic is preferred.
Project Context
- The role supports delivery in the Madinah Central Area, where access restrictions, working-hour limitations, and logistical constraints affect planning.
- The project includes long-lead materials, equipment, specialist systems, imported hotel finishes, and phased handovers.
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