Planning Manager (DB)

JASARA PMC is looking for a dedicated Planning Manager specializing in Mobility, Transportation, and Rail to join our innovative team. As part of our commitment to delivering high-quality projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under Vision 2030, you will play a crucial role in planning and managing our transportation and rail infrastructure initiatives.

Planning Manager will be responsible in developing and maintaining the sub-districts and projects programs.  This role in involve in developing and maintaining comprehensive project schedules, planning and schedule management processes, performance monitoring and analysis, and reporting to effectively manage the scope, risks, and interdependencies of the projects. 

• Champions "Safety First" value, specifically confident in enacting ‘Stop Work’ authority, engage in relevant health/safety/wellbeing standards and behaviors. 
• Demonstrates positive workplace behaviors, in line with the company values, at all times. 
• Manages, coaches and mentors’ junior staff to successfully contribute to the department deliverables  
• Consciously seeking ways to improve the provision and quality of services provided to the Project teams.  
• Encourages communication & collaboration with other Teams  
• Continually improve the quality of schedule presentation, information, and documentation.  
• Ensures the preservation of all backup documentation throughout the process, working closely with information management teams.  
• Provides Guidance & support to the team in all aspects of Planning, Cost, Resourcing & Risk.  
• Produces the Project schedule and maintains as per Consultant/Contractor schedule.   
• Ensures the schedule adheres to the Schedule Management Plan, Planning processes and WOW.  
• Resource planning – to indicate the levels of resources.  
• Develops and implements appropriate improvements, ensure optimal project schedule quality, and evaluate reports.  
• Analysis of schedule to identity performance trends, raise for management attention, with mitigation solutions.  
• Review of prepared schedule data for proposals or contract negotiations.  
• Integrates inter-discipline schedule requirements and constraints to establish logical work sequences for assigned disciplines or specialties. Works with the performing organizations and units to coordinate work sequences with the total project plan.  
• Identifies potential and occurring problems affecting the work schedule at the site and recommend solutions to the relevant team/department  
• Continually improve the quality of schedule presentation, information, and documentation.  
• Identifies risks and develops mitigation plans.  
• Clarifying the needs of team to ensure the delivery of effective services.  
• Review, and edit Project progress track and reporting  
• To produce Baseline/Target schedules for submission.  
• Planning and scheduling own work to meet required timelines and outputs.  
• Ensures weekly/monthly updating of schedules as design and construction work develops.  
• Manages sharing of knowledge and information within own team and with internal stakeholders   
• Responds accurately and in a timely manner to team queries regarding the content of the schedule submission.  
• Undertakes strategic planning exercises with wider team  
• Provide inputs in setting up processes and procedures to implement it  
• Identifies key interfaces and manages them efficiently to ensure seamless coordination.  
• Manages coordination with commercial function to implement an effective controls system covering budget, cost, reporting, risk, and change management.