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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:\nParsons is looking for an amazingly talented Lead Planner who owns the planning and schedule reporting for the closeout portfolio. The role sets schedule standards, develops integrated demobilization and preservation schedules, leads schedule reviews, and provides critical path, progress, S-curve, and forecast analysis to support closeout decisions.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nOwn schedule reporting across the portfolio and set the status, update, review, and reporting cycle.- Set planning standards, coding requirements, schedule templates, calendars, reporting cut-offs, and quality checks.- Develop and maintain integrated demobilization, preservation, termination, and closeout schedules.-\n\nPrepare schedule forecasts covering milestones, remaining activities, contract interfaces, handovers, preservation periods, and closure dates.- Perform critical path, near-critical path, float, logic, constraint, and schedule health analysis.- Develop S-curves, milestone trends, progress curves, schedule narratives, and executive planning dashboards.-\n\nLead schedule review meetings with project, construction, commercial, procurement, contractor, consultant, and stakeholder teams.- Assess schedule updates for completeness, logic, status accuracy, sequencing, and support for reported progress.-\n\nCombine contract and workstream schedules into a portfolio view and identify cross-contract dependencies.- Identify slippage, constraints, missed milestones, and forecast changes, and explain the effect on closeout objectives.-\n\nProvide schedule substantiation for claims, disputes, settlement discussions, and final account reviews.- Lead planning inputs to weekly and monthly reports, demobilization reports, closeout reports, dashboards, and presentations.-\n\nSupport the Project Controls Manager in portfolio reviews and senior stakeholder discussions.\n\nWhat Required Skills You'll Bring:\nMinimum 20 years of planning and scheduling experience.- Minimum 10 years of experience on major projects in Saudi Arabia and/or the GCC.\n\nExperience on mega-projects or mixed-use programs with multi-billion SAR portfolios and a high volume of contracts.-\n\nSubstantial experience in schedule development, review, forecasting, critical path analysis, progress measurement, and reporting.-\n\nExperience with demobilization, preservation, termination, handover, or closeout schedules is preferred.\n\nBachelor degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, or a related discipline.-\n\nForensic planning and delay analysis experience is desirable but not mandatory.\n\n What Desired Skills You'll Bring:\nExpert use of Primavera P6 and advanced Microsoft Excel are mandatory.- Power BI development and report use is preferred.- Strong command of PowerPoint, Aconex, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft 365. 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