Planning Engineer

Job Description

Job Overview

Kaefer Saudi Arabia Co is looking for a qualified Planning Engineer in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The role is responsible for developing, maintaining, and updating baseline schedules, detailed execution plans, and progress tracking for insulation, fireproofing, and scaffolding works across industrial and construction sites.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and update baseline schedules and detailed work plans for insulation, fireproofing, and scaffolding using Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• Develop work breakdown structures (WBS), activity sequencing, durations, calendars, milestones, and resource loading based on project scope and productivity assumptions.
• Prepare short-term, weekly, and monthly look-ahead plans covering scaffold erection, inspection, handover, and dismantling, alongside insulation and fireproofing installation.
• Assess work-front readiness, including site access, permits, approved drawings, material availability, and equipment mobilization.
• Coordinate with project management, construction, engineering, safety, procurement, and client teams to address interface constraints and schedule priorities.
• Track planned versus actual progress, productivity rates, and resource utilization, maintaining traceable discipline-level progress records.
• Identify critical-path activities, access bottlenecks, and potential delays, proposing effective mitigation measures and recovery plans.
• Generate daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports, dashboard curves, manpower histograms, and schedule narratives.
• Evaluate schedule impacts from scope changes, revised priorities, and site instructions to support variation orders and extension of time claims.
• Support tender activities with quantity reviews, productivity assumptions, duration estimates, and resource forecasting.
• Coordinate planning for plant shutdowns, turnarounds, and industrial maintenance campaigns in compliance with safety and client specifications.

Job Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Construction Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of planning or project controls experience in industrial services or construction, preferably within oil and gas, petrochemical, or power plants.
• Demonstrated experience in planning insulation, fireproofing, or scaffolding projects.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Excel.
• Solid understanding of progress measurement systems, critical path analysis, and schedule risk identification.
• Familiarity with project documentation, safety procedures, and client technical specifications.

Education and Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering.
• Experience: 3 to 8 years of relevant planning engineering experience.

Job Details

• Company: Kaefer Saudi Arabia Co
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Experience: 3 – 8 Years
• Education: Bachelor Degree
• Functional Area: Engineering
• Location: Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia