Scheduling Manager - Project Controls

planning and scheduling controls for major project delivery, ensuring that programme logic, milestones, interfaces, progress updates, and earned value data are accurate, transparent, and aligned with contractual requirements. This position supports project leadership by providing reliable schedule analysis, early warning of delays, progress reporting, recovery planning, and time impact assessment. The role is important for maintaining delivery confidence across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, consultants, contractors, and client-facing stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

* Establish planning and scheduling standards, procedures, coding structures, calendars, WBS, CBS, reporting formats, and governance controls.
* Develop, integrate, and maintain Level 1 to Level 4 schedules and the Integrated Master Schedule.
* Ensure schedules contain robust logic, clear dependencies, valid interfaces, accurate milestones, and realistic activity sequencing.
* Prepare detailed schedules with activity-level resource loading, cost loading, progress rules, and measurable deliverables.
* Implement deliverable-based progress measurement methods and coordinate with discipline leads for regular schedule updates.
* Apply earned value management techniques to assess schedule performance, cost performance, progress trends, and delivery efficiency.
* Maintain bi-weekly earned value analysis dashboards at project and sector level.
* Review, check, and evaluate contractor and consultant schedules of works against contract requirements and approved procedures.
* Monitor work progress, compare actual performance against accepted programmes, and report key findings to the Project Director and Project Controls Manager.
* Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports covering schedule status, performance trends, risks, milestones, variance analysis, and recovery actions.
* Lead the review and finalization of contractor and design consultant baseline schedules and recovery schedules.
* Assess schedule submissions for logic quality, critical path validity, float use, milestone compliance, resource loading, and contractual alignment.
* Lead schedule risk assessments and quantify impacts to milestones, contingency, interfaces, and delivery commitments.
* Recommend mitigation measures, recovery strategies, resequencing options, and acceleration opportunities where schedule risks arise.
* Govern schedule change control processes and ensure changes are supported by clear time, cost, and scope impact analysis.
* Perform time impact analyses and support claims or forensic schedule reviews for contractor and consultant claims when required.
* Facilitate weekly and monthly schedule reviews, look-ahead planning sessions, and progress coordination meetings.
* Drive accountability for schedule deliverables across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, consultants, contractors, and internal project teams.
* Analyze critical path and near-critical path activities, identify constraints, and escalate schedule threats with practical recommendations.
* Support project controls reporting through schedule forecasting, trend analysis, variance reporting, and management dashboards.
* Present schedule findings clearly to senior stakeholders, project teams, clients, and delivery partners.
* Promote consistent planning discipline, accurate reporting, and proactive issue resolution across project controls activities.

Ideal Profile

* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field.
* Equivalent combination of education and relevant planning or scheduling experience may be considered.
* Typically 15 or more years of related project controls, planning, and scheduling experience.
* Previous experience as a Planning Manager, Scheduling Manager, or Scheduling Lead on large-scale projects.
* Strong experience performing, monitoring, and reviewing schedule development, schedule control, progress analysis, and schedule forecasting.
* Experience working across both field and home office project environments.
* Strong capability in progress measurement systems, variance analysis, trend analysis, critical path analysis, near-critical path analysis, and resource-loaded scheduling.
* Experience coordinating schedules across multidisciplinary teams, contractors, consultants, and project stakeholders.
* Practical experience performing time impact analyses and supporting claims or forensic schedule reviews.
* Experience on high-end hospitality projects is preferred.
* KSA or GCC project experience with internationally reputed firms is strongly preferred.
* Knowledge of engineering, construction management, procurement practices, and construction sequencing.
* Able to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule deliverables independently with minimal supervision.
* Strong professional judgment in technical planning, scheduling methods, schedule risk, and project controls reporting.
* Proficient in project controls software, scheduling tools, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Office applications.
* Familiarity with earned value management concepts and standard project controls reporting practices.
* Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to drive outcomes in a complex project environment.

Skills Set

* Planning and scheduling
* Project controls
* Schedule management
* Integrated Master Schedule
* Level 1 schedule
* Level 2 schedule
* Level 3 schedule
* Level 4 schedule
* WBS
* CBS
* Schedule coding
* Baseline schedule review
* Recovery schedule review
* Resource-loaded scheduling
* Cost-loaded scheduling
* Progress measurement systems
* Earned value management
* Earned value analysis
* Schedule performance
* Cost performance
* Critical path analysis
* Near-critical path analysis
* Schedule forecasting
* Variance analysis
* Trend analysis
* Schedule risk assessment
* Scenario planning
* Time impact analysis
* Forensic schedule review
* Claims support
* Contractor schedule review
* Consultant schedule review
* Look-ahead planning
* Progress reporting
* Weekly reports
* Monthly reports
* Project controls dashboards
* Engineering coordination
* Procurement coordination
* Construction coordination
* Commissioning coordination
* Microsoft Excel
* Microsoft Office
* Project controls software
* Stakeholder management
* Presentation skills

Why Join Us

This opportunity gives a Scheduling Manager the chance to lead planning and scheduling controls on major projects in Riyadh, supporting complex delivery environments where accurate schedules, earned value visibility, contractor coordination, and recovery planning are essential. The position offers exposure to senior project controls leadership, high-value construction programmes, schedule risk analysis, claims support, and stakeholder-facing reporting within a respected global infrastructure organization. It is a strong fit for a planning professional who wants to improve delivery certainty, strengthen programme governance, and contribute to major development work in Saudi Arabia.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, infrastructure, construction management, and project delivery company supporting major construction, utilities, transportation, urban development, public realm, and civil infrastructure programmes. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons contributes to large-scale development through project controls, technical expertise, construction management, safety leadership, and practical delivery knowledge that help create reliable and future-ready infrastructure.