Lead Scheduling Engineer (Relocation to Saudi Arabia is required.)

Title: Lead Scheduling Engineer

Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Overview:

We are seeking a Scheduling Engineer to join Project Control Division of Producing Project Management Department (PPMD) under Producing.

PPMD serves as a construction agency for C1 projects managing geographically diverse portfolios spanning from North to South, onshore, and offshore fields. In addition, PPMD coordinates Maintain potential projects as the proponent representative.

Your primary role is to develop, maintain, and monitor projects schedules to ensure effective planning, resource coordination, progress tracking, and timely project execution. The role supports project management teams in identifying schedule risks, analyzing deviations, and recommend corrective actions to achieve project milestones and objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Develop and maintain project schedules, including baseline schedules, milestones, and key deliverables that enables subsequent reporting in Saudi Aramco systems.
• Monitor project progress against approved schedules and identify delays or deviations.
• Perform critical path analysis and identify schedule constraints and potential bottlenecks.
• Ensure timely communication of schedule risks, issues, and required interventions.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of scheduling data and reporting.
• Work with construction team in preparing, reviewing, and/or approving the project schedule and ensure the project is on track by utilizing schedule monitoring tools.
• Develop, implement, and maintain standardized planning and control procedures, guidelines, and reporting requirements.
• Oversees the preparation of daily, weekly, and monthly project progress reports, look-ahead plans, progress curves, and manpower histograms.

Minimum Requirements:

• You will hold Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline from a recognized and approved program.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience with advanced knowledge in scheduling engineering and project management, obtainable usually through a combination of experience and continuing education, preferably in oil and gas facility.
• Should perform the development of baseline critical path schedules and progress measurement systems in order to plan, update, track, analyze schedule risk and report work performance for all phases of the project.
• Proficiency in scheduling tools such as Primavera.
• Hold Project Management Professional (PMP), Scheduling Professional (SP) Certification, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical, communication, and reporting skills.

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Working environment.

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical, and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical, and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.