Planning Engineer

Country/Region: SA
Field: Project Management
Location: Riyadh, SA
Type of Contract: Permanent
Level of experience: ‎05-‎10 years
Job number:
About SYSTRA
The global leader in public transport infrastructure, SYSTRA has specialised
in the mass transit and rail market since ‎1957. The main shareholders of
SYSTRA are SNCF and RATP. Its ambition is to serve emerging needs for
collective and sustainable mobility throughout the world. With a presence in
‎80 countries, SYSTRA manages over ‎3,000 projects for high-speed systems,
traditional rail lines, metros and tramways throughout the world.
Understand better who we are by visiting www.systra.com.

Context

Comprising a large area in the southwest corner of NEOM, the core urban
environment of OXAGON is centered around the integrated port and logistics hub
that will house the majority of the city 's anticipated residents. The unique
octagonal design minimizes impact on the environment and provides optimal land
usage, with the remainder open to preserve ‎95% of the natural environment. A
defining feature of the city is the world's largest floating structure, which
will become a center for NEOM's Blue Economy and achieve sustainable growth.
OXAGON will establish the world's first fully integrated port and supply chain
ecosystem for NEOM. The port, logistics and rail delivery facility will be
unified, providing world-class productivity levels with net-zero carbon
emissions, setting global benchmarks in the adoption of technology and
environmental sustainability.
We are currently looking for a Planning Engineer to join our team. As a member
of the Project Controls team, the Planning Engineer will be responsible for
delivering the programme to schedule and to budget. The main focus of this
role will be to prepare integrated and coordinated project plans, enabling
resource and material requirements. This will involve working on cost
resources, change management, cost and value.

Main duties

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
* Developing fully baselined, resource loaded and labour costed project schedules
* Developing schedules containing all agreed activities, deliverables milestones and client deliverables based on the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
* Implementing and maintain project monitoring processes such as KPIs, total float, Earned Value (EV), resource and costing
* Monitoring progress and anticipating problems to keep the project on track, including creating recovery and contingency plans
* Monitoring and auditing contractor plans and planning processes
* Performing analysis and scenario modeling for potential project changes
* Providing risk, issue, cost , resource and delay analysis
* Performing critical path analysis and advising of possible actions and areas of concern
* Providing regular reports on project status for internal reporting requirements
* Proved EV and KPI reports internally to the client
* Attending project coordination meetings to discuss project status with specific reference to engineering activity, sourcing, quality, cost and delivery

Degrees

Bachelor degree in Civil engineering

Other degrees

Person Specification

• Construction or related subject degree (not from an online institute)


• ‎5 years in project planning on major civils projects


• Strong technical knowledge of Primavera P6


• Experience of schedule risk and claims analysis


• An understanding with financial areas and commercial aspects of project management


• Strong knowledge of earned value management, milestones and KPI reporting

Personal qualities

Systra is an equal opportunities company; this position is open to all
applicants.

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