Senior Planning Engineer

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities. As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51 st largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey. We invite you to join us. Why? When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards. Our newest opportunity is for a talented Planning Engineer to join our award winning team based on our project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project is a major Infrastructure development of National importance and pride. This position will support the development, monitoring, and control of project schedules and planning deliverables for a major infrastructure programme in Riyadh. The role includes preparing project schedules, tracking progress, analysing delays, and assisting with reporting and forecasting. This position requires strong planning skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work within multidisciplinary teams on large, complex projects. We envisage success in this role to include; Developing and update detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 . Assisting in establishing baseline schedules and ensuring they meet project and client requirements. Monitoring progress, analyse deviations, and report schedule variances. Supporting the preparation of look-ahead schedules, critical path analysis, and resource histograms. Tracking construction and design progress against planned timelines. Collecting and validate progress data from contractors and project teams. Preparing weekly and monthly planning reports, dashboards, and KPI summaries. Assisting in producing recovery or mitigation schedules when required. Working closely with engineers, project managers, and project controls teams to ensure alignment of schedule data. Reviewing contractor schedules and planning submissions for logic, sequencing, resource allocation, and compliance. Maintaining planning documents, logs, and records in accordance with project controls procedures. Supporting planning input for client presentations, progress meetings, and coordination workshops. Supporting schedule impact assessments for changes, variations, and design updates. Identifying schedule risks and participate in mitigation planning. Assisting in preparing time impact analyses (TIA) when required. To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include 7+ years' work experience partnered with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. Must have ROADS, TUNNELS, BRIDGES Experience Experience in Microsoft Office, Primavera and Microsoft Project applications is essential. Candidates with experience gained within the consultancy sector on major scale mixed-use development projects will be of great interest. KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work. We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.