Job description:
Job Purpose
The Planning Engineer supports large-scale real estate development projects by owning the day-to-day scheduling, progress monitoring, and reporting cycle across multiple concurrent projects. The role works closely with site teams, project managers, and client-side planners to ensure schedules remain accurate, credible, and actionable
Functional Responsibilities Schedule Development & Baseline Management
• Develop, structure, and maintain detailed project schedules in Primavera P6 covering civil, MEP, finishing, mobilization, and handover activities.
• Build and validate the Work Breakdown Structure, activity logic, durations, dependencies, and baseline revisions.
• Manage change control for baseline revisions and ensure approved schedules remain aligned with project execution strategy.
Progress Monitoring & Reporting
• Collect, verify, and update site progress data on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.
• Prepare S-curves, look-ahead schedules, manpower/resource histograms, progress reports, and management dashboards.
• Perform schedule variance analysis, identify critical path shifts and delay causes, and recommend recovery actions.
Earned Value & Coordination
• Track performance using Earned Value Management including SPI, CPI, and forecast-at-completion trends.
• Coordinate with cost control to support cost/schedule integration and a single source of truth for project status.
• Participate in progress meetings, follow up on actions, and align reporting formats with client and consultant requirements.
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Qualification Bachelor in Civil Engineering Experience 4 to 6 Years 2 to 5 Years Skills Project Scheduling Project Resource Management Risk Assessment Compliance
Profile description:
Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions.
The hub of alfanar’s manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh. The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals.
alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset. With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar.
For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com
