JOB DESCRIPTION – Senior Specialist Project Controls

SUMMARY:

Perform schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities for various NEOM program sectors or regions; with ad-hoc requests; that requires high technical expertise and problem-solving skills in planning and scheduling. Demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and providing innovative solutions to planning and scheduling problems. Help develop and maintain a program dashboard utilizing business intelligence tools.

JOB DUTIES:

• Reports and supports NEOM’s Sr Sector Planners in delivering the overall program planning requirement
• Collaborate with sector heads on planning, scheduling, maintenance, and reporting tasks.
• Perform were required the collection, verification, and integration of implementation plans for various NEOM sectors/regions into the total program plan.
• Plan the effort to establish milestones and KPIs for the sector. Review sector work activities to ensure the support of program milestones and KPIs. Coordinates the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
• Review the performing sector and determine whether the schedules adequately support the overall program goals.
• Obtain required schedule information from sectors. identify schedule restraints and their effects on the sector schedule.
• Compiles, summarizes and updates. Monitors and reports critical-path and schedule performance of the sector.
• Prepares and presents the Schedule Impact Report. Leads the development and review of implementation schedule recovery plans.
• Maintain sector plans periodically as needed and generate progress reports and provide advanced analysis.

JOB KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products independently. This includes using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design, construction, and procurement practices.
• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and variance analysis.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Proficient in creating sophisticated progress reports.
• Knowledge of project management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
• Advanced level of knowledge in MS Office, and understanding of Power-BI, Primavera P6 and MS project.
• BSc in Engineering or relevant degree with 7+ years of experience in projects delivery