SR. ENGINEER - PLANNING

Role Overview

Senior Engineer - Planning at El Seif Engineering Contracting. The role is based either at headquarters or on a project site.

Company Overview

El Seif Engineering Contracting is a construction firm with half a century of experience across public infrastructure, military, and defense applications. The company is guided by core values of excellence, integrity, and innovation, delivering projects with precision and attention to detail.

Role Purpose

The Senior Engineer, Planning provides expert-level planning and scheduling services critical to project success. The role leads the development of competitive, resource-loaded tender schedules (HQ role) or manages the project baseline schedule to ensure successful execution (Project role), and is accountable for monitoring progress, analyzing deviations, and providing robust delay analysis for Extension of Time (EOT) claims.

Key Responsibilities

Schedule Development & Planning

• Lead the preparation of comprehensive, resource-loaded, and cost-loaded schedules, focusing on Tender Schedules (HQ role) or Project Baseline Schedules (Project role), ensuring full alignment with project scope and strategy.
• Develop and integrate logical work sequences and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) for all project disciplines.
• Ensure all project controls data (WBS, CBS, budgets, schedules) is accurately set up and maintained in EPM/EPPM for either tender proposals or active projects.

Progress Monitoring & Reporting

• Proactively monitor progress against the baseline, identify, analyze, and report schedule deviations, and recommend corrective actions or work-around solutions.
• Prepare and maintain Look-Ahead Schedules and Action Plans, leading weekly meetings to highlight delay risks and ensure accountability for mitigation actions.

Delay Analysis & Claims Support

• Implement standard delay analysis methodologies (e.g., Time Impact Analysis) to support the preparation of Extension of Time (EOT) claims (Project role).
• Rigorously review project documentation to identify and substantiate delay events (Project role) or to identify risks and assumptions for a bid (HQ role).

Stakeholder Liaison & Communication

• Act as a key point of contact for schedule-related matters, liaising with tendering teams (HQ role) or project teams, clients, and consultants (Project role).
• Act as a primary point of contact for schedule-related communications, ensuring alignment and clear understanding of project progress with clients and consultants (Project role) or tender schedule strategy with internal departments (HQ role).

Knowledge Transfer & Mentorship

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to planning engineers and site teams (Project role) or to junior members of the tendering/planning team (HQ role) on scheduling best practices, project controls, and delay analysis.
• In an HQ role, act as a subject matter expert (SME) by deploying on short-term assignments to project(s) providing targeted support during critical project phases or to help implement new procedures.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of planning processes, methodologies, and tools within the Project Planning Department, bringing lessons learned from either project execution or the tendering process.

Information Security & Compliance

• Comply with corporate information security policies and procedures relevant to the role.
• Preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Board and corporate information.
• Ensure access to sensitive information is restricted to authorized individuals.
• Protect organizational information assets from compromise.
• Comply with Data Protection and Intellectual Property Rights legislation applicable in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor of Engineering in Civil or relevant degree related to project management and/or construction.
• 12–15 years of experience.

Additional Information

This is a full-time position offering standard benefits including paid annual leave, public holidays, living allowances, healthcare coverage, and end of service benefits. Discretionary benefits include performance bonus, merit increase, and training and development opportunities if eligible.