Engineer Planning | alfanar Building Systems
Date: Oct 24, 2026
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Company: alfanar
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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.
General Responsibilities
HR Proficiency:
- Ability to obtain updated soft and technical skills related to the job
- To have a vision and a plan for the career path and how to achieve it.
Delivery:
- Perform the planned activities to meet the operational and development targets as per delivery schedules.
- Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within efficient cost and time.
- Provide a periodic report formatted by detailing the deviation and execution of planned tasks.
Problem-Solving:
- Solve any related problems arise and escalate any complex operational issues.
Quality:
- Ensure quality requirements to develop effective quality control and processes including specifications for products or processes or related activities.
Business Process Improvements:
- Coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
Compliance:
- Comply to related policy and procedures and work instructions.
Health, Safety, and Environment:
- Ensure compliance of relevant safety, quality, and environmental management procedures and controls within defined area of work activity to guarantee safety, legislative compliance, and delivery of high-quality products/services.
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