Senior Planning Manager

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!   At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.   Job Description: Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Planning Manager to join our team! In this role you will get to lead project planning, scheduling, progress measurement, reporting, and schedule risk management activities for large-scale construction and infrastructure projects. What You'll Be Doing: The role will ensure that project schedules are fully integrated, accurately reflect project progress, and remain aligned with strategic objectives, contractual obligations, program milestones, and delivery requirements. The successful candidate will work closely with project management consultants, contractors, designers, internal stakeholders, and senior leadership to provide reliable schedule information, identify emerging risks, and support timely project delivery. • Develop, maintain, and align detailed project schedules with the Integrated Master Schedule, ensuring consistency with program milestones, delivery phases, and approved project objectives. • Lead planning and scheduling activities for large-scale projects, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, contractual requirements, and agreed delivery timelines. • Ensure that project schedules, progress reports, and planning deliverables comply with established planning standards, project governance requirements, reporting procedures, and contractual obligations. • Coordinate with project management consultants, contractors, designers, consultants, and internal stakeholders to ensure schedule integration and consistency across all work packages and project interfaces. • Establish and maintain effective progress measurement systems, including physical progress, weighted milestones, earned value indicators, key performance indicators, and other approved measurement methodologies. • Produce accurate, timely, and auditable project status reports for project teams, senior management, and other relevant stakeholders. • Conduct detailed schedule reviews, forensic schedule assessments, critical path analysis, time impact analysis, and delay analysis. • Assess contractor schedules, extension-of-time submissions, delay claims, disruption claims, and recovery programmes, supporting the evaluation of contractual entitlement in accordance with applicable contract provisions. • Lead the development, review, and update of baseline schedules, look-ahead schedules, recovery schedules, acceleration programmes, and revised delivery strategies. • Operate and promote the effective use of Primavera P6, project management information systems, business dashboards, and other planning and reporting tools to improve visibility, accuracy, and reporting efficiency. • Identify project and programme schedule risks, assess their potential impact, and develop appropriate mitigation, recovery, and acceleration strategies to protect critical delivery milestones. • Monitor critical and near-critical activities, float consumption, schedule trends, interfaces, and key project constraints, ensuring that emerging issues are escalated promptly. • Implement and maintain standardized planning procedures, reporting templates, schedule coding structures, progress measurement systems, and governance processes across applicable construction packages. • Ensure that standardized procedures are applied consistently while allowing for project-specific requirements and contractual conditions where necessary. • Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and support to planning engineers, schedulers, project controls personnel, and other members of the project team. • Support project reviews, progress meetings, risk workshops, commercial assessments, change control processes, and executive reporting activities. • Review contractor and consultant submissions to ensure that schedules are logical, resource-loaded where required, properly linked, and aligned with approved project requirements. • Maintain accurate planning records, schedule narratives, progress evidence, assumptions, constraints, and supporting documentation for audit, commercial, and contractual purposes. Required Qualifications and Experience • Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline. • Postgraduate qualification in Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering Management, Planning, or a related field is advantageous. • Minimum of 15 years of professional experience in project planning, project controls, scheduling, or construction management. • Extensive experience in large-scale construction, infrastructure, engineering, or development projects. • Proven experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary programmes with multiple contractors, consultants, interfaces, and delivery packages. • Strong experience in Primavera P6 scheduling software. • Practical experience in schedule analysis, delay analysis, critical path assessment, time impact analysis, and extension-of-time evaluations. • Experience in progress measurement, earned value management, weighted milestones, performance reporting, and project controls systems. • Experience supporting contract administration, claims assessment, change management, and evaluation of contractual entitlement. • Middle East project experience is desirable but not essential. • Professional membership or certification with a recognized engineering, project management, or construction body is advantageous. Technical Skills • Advanced Primavera P6 knowledge and scheduling capability. • Strong understanding of integrated master scheduling and programme controls. • Proficiency in project management information systems and business intelligence dashboards. • Knowledge of construction planning methodologies, project controls, and reporting standards. • Understanding of critical path method, schedule logic, float analysis, resource loading, and schedule performance measurement. • Ability to interpret contracts, programme requirements, and relevant planning provisions. • Strong analytical, reporting, and presentation skills. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. Key Competencies • Strategic planning and programme management. • Strong analytical and problem-solving ability. • Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy. • Commercial and contractual awareness. • Stakeholder management and communication. • Leadership and team development. • Ability to manage competing priorities and meet reporting deadlines. • Ability to challenge schedule information constructively and objectively. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. • Professional integrity and a structured approach to governance and compliance. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information. We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY! Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. 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