Senior Scheduling Engineer, Ras-Al-Khair

Requisition ID: 274781 

•  Relocation Authorized: International - Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Ras Al Khair 

Company Overview:

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact.We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy, and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are our values – ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants – integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

Position Summary:

Jubail is one of Bechtel’s most remarkable achievements—a city built from the sand up, requiring vast resources and logistical planning on an unprecedented scale. It the biggest civil engineering project in modern times—and it's getting bigger. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, since it began in the mid-1970s. Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company (SABCO) serves as the Management Services Contractor (MSC), or “owner’s representative” for our client, the Royal Commission (RC). We are the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) managers, managing design submissions from local AE firms, and overseeing the actual construction work being performed by local contractors and sub-contractors in Jubail and Ras-Al-Khair Industrial Cities. In June 2021, Bechtel’s contract with the Royal Commission was renewed for another 5 years with work focusing on building new residential communities, iconic buildings/ bridges, major site preparation, commercial buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals, sports facilities, clinics, universities, utility services and infrastructure (electrical sub-stations, lift stations), roads and highways, port & pipeline expansions, and more. 

Work Location: Ras-Al-Khair. The work location for this position is at Ras-Al-Khair which is located about 100 KMS north of Jubail Industrial City. You will be required to commute Jubail - Ras-Al-Khair - Jubail daily using the available transportation facility /shuttle bus service. The accommodation will be provided at Jubail Industrial City. Free breakfast and lunch is currently provided for Ras-Al-Khair assignees during workdays.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Supervises schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities for small to medium size projects. Supports project organizational and administrative activities. Supervises the development and integration of individual schedules into the total project plan. Establishes milestones for the total project and supervises schedule resource loading and leveling. Supports development of scheduling standards and procedures.
• Supervise planning development for the different levels of the schedule hierarchy: contract, and detailed activity planning within a project, and coordination of the contract with the program.
• Establishes milestones for the total project or major portions of the project. Reviews project work activities to ensure support of project milestones. Coordinates the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
• Evaluates claims for additional time due to schedule impacts and provide recommendations on justified time entitlement.
• Monitor progress throughout the implementation process and compare actual against planned work.
• Compare actual earned progress to forecast earned progress and provide analysis to support the Assistant Resident Engineer’s and Resident Engineer’s.
• Analyze and evaluate schedule risks. Update and monitor project progress and, if delayed, advise mitigation actions to meet the schedule.
• Skilled in development of various types of reports/KPI’s/Dash Boards to reflect the status of projects with visual aids such as bar charts, graphs and dash boards.
• Interface with Client, project team and sub-contractors to ensure successful project delivery.
• Skilled in development of detailed procurement schedules.
• Perform resource planning and analysis. Forecast the demands of various types of resources including labor, materials, and equipment over the course of the project.
• Experienced in working with construction team to find ways to mitigate delays and expedite construction work.
• Skilled in establishing baseline programs, recovery programs and monitoring adherence and providing critical analysis. 

Qualifications and Skills:

Essential Technical: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field. 
• Minimum of 10 years experience as Planner/Scheduler on Heavy Civil / Infrastructure projects.

Essential Behavioral:

• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Candidate should possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills with an ability to work closely with peers, external customers, and client counterparts.
• Ability to work within a culturally diverse organization, recognizing and respecting differences.

Additional Qualifications:

Preferred Technical:

• High degree of technical skill and experienced in analysis & control, baseline development, planning & scheduling, maintenance, monitoring, impact identification, and recovery plan development.
• Demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and providing innovative solutions to planning & scheduling problems.  
• Skilled in developing recovery plans with teams. Adept in the preparation and presentation critical issues affecting progress and schedule.
• Advanced working knowledge of Primavera and Advanced knowledge of excel to plan, organize, review, develop and present complex EPC schedules.
• Proficient in CPM scheduling, resource loading and leveling. 
• Proficient in utilizing excel to produce well designed graphs, charts, and reports to communicate with key stakeholders.
• Skilled in presenting issues during Construction Meetings and ably to clearly communicate most critical issues and recommendations during meeting.
• Prior Middle-East work experience preferred.
• Prior experience working as client representation or in PM/CM role preferred.  

Preferred Behavioral:

• Prior experience overseeing multiple contractor planning engineers or experience leading team of junior planning / Scheduling Engineers is preferred.
• Ability to train junior planning engineers.

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