Planning Engineer

About the Role:BÖWE is an award-winning architecture and design firm seeking a highly experienced Planning Engineer with strong expertise in project planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, and project control for complex developments, including architecture, interior design, fit-out, residential, hospitality, commercial, and mixed-use projects.The ideal candidate will be responsible for preparing, monitoring, and updating project schedules, tracking progress against baseline plans, preparing progress reports, identifying delays and risks, supporting recovery plans, and coordinating closely with project managers, design teams, consultants, contractors, procurement, finance, and senior management.Strong experience in Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project is essential, along with excellent reporting, coordination, and analytical skills. Fluency in English is required, and Arabic is an advantage.Planning & Project Control Skills:• Proven ability to prepare, manage, and update project baseline schedules, detailed work programs, and milestone plans.• Advanced experience in Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project for project planning and schedule management.• Strong understanding of design, fit-out, construction, procurement, and project execution workflows.• Ability to develop work breakdown structures, activity sequencing, dependencies, milestones, and critical path analysis.• Experience in tracking project progress, identifying delays, preparing variance reports, and supporting recovery plans.• Strong knowledge of progress reporting, project dashboards, S-curves, manpower histograms, and management updates.• Effective coordination with design, procurement, site, commercial, finance, and project management teams to ensure schedule alignment.• Strong understanding of delay analysis, extension of time support, project risks, and project control documentation.• High attention to detail, accuracy, documentation, and compliance with project requirements and company standards.Key Responsibilities:• Prepare project baseline schedules, detailed work programs, project timelines, and milestone plans.• Develop and update project schedules using Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or approved planning tools.• Monitor project progress against approved baseline schedules and identify delays, risks, critical activities, and coordination gaps.• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports for management, clients, consultants, and internal teams.• Coordinate with project managers, design teams, procurement, finance, contractors, consultants, and suppliers to collect progress updates and project status information.• Prepare lookahead schedules, recovery plans, delay reports, progress curves, S-curves, manpower histograms, and project dashboards when required.• Track design deliverables, procurement activities, material approvals, site progress, and key project milestones.• Identify schedule risks, project delays, bottlenecks, and coordination gaps, and provide practical recommendations to management.• Support project managers in preparing recovery programs, revised schedules, mitigation plans, delay analysis, extension of time claims, and project control documentation.• Review contractor and consultant schedules to ensure alignment with project requirements and contractual obligations.• Attend project meetings, coordination meetings, progress review sessions, and planning workshops.• Maintain accurate project records, schedule updates, progress logs, correspondence, and planning documentation.• Represent BÖWE professionally in meetings with clients, consultants, contractors, and project stakeholders.Required Qualifications & Skills:• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field.• 6 to 10 years of proven experience as a Planning Engineer or Project Control Engineer.• Experience in architecture, interior design, fit-out, residential, hospitality, commercial, and mixed-use development projects is preferred.• Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project is required.• Strong experience in preparing baseline schedules, progress updates, lookahead plans, recovery schedules, and project reports.• Excellent knowledge of project planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, delay tracking, and project control procedures.• Strong ability to read and interpret architectural, structural, MEP, and interior design drawings.• Strong coordination skills with project managers, consultants, contractors, procurement, finance, and design teams.• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; Arabic proficiency is an advantage.• Strong ability to work under pressure and manage multiple project deadlines.• Valid Saudi Council of Engineers membership is required or strongly preferred.• Valid and transferable Saudi Iqama is preferred.• Candidates currently based in Saudi Arabia are preferred.• Immediate joining or short notice availability is preferred.Required Software Skills:• Primavera P6• Microsoft Project• Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook• AutoCAD is an advantage• Revit / BIM knowledge is an advantage• Power BI or dashboard reporting tools are an advantage• ERP or project management systems are an advantageHow to ApplyIf you are a detail-oriented Planning Engineer with 6 to 10 years of proven experience in project planning, scheduling, and project control, we would be delighted to review your application.Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.Please send your CV to:📧 mz@bowe.mePlease include the subject line: “Planning Engineer – Riyadh”