Project Control Specialist

Employment; Doha; On-site; QAR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Employment is seeking a Project Controls Specialist for internal audit, leveraging deep EPC cost, scheduling, and variation experience to test integrity across project teams.

You'll review cost reporting, schedules, and claims, communicate findings to project directors, and help close gaps with structured risk and governance improvements. This role offers broad cross-project exposure while maintaining the technical substance of EPC delivery in a recognized governance framework.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required across civil, mechanical, electrical or related fields.
• 6–8+ years in project controls, cost engineering, planning/scheduling, or contracts on EPC/construction projects.
• Fluency in EPC contract structures, claims, variations, and JV project arrangements.
• Strong ability to interrogate cost and schedule data and identify inconsistencies.
• Clear, concise writing to communicate technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.
• PMI/ CCP or equivalent project controls certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Dig into cost reports, forecasts, and cost-to-complete estimates across EPC and capital projects to test integrity.
• Review schedule quality, critical path logic, and EOT claims as an independent reviewer.
• Assess variation orders, claims, and contractual entitlement positions with evidence.
• Evaluate contractor performance data and progress measurement methods.
• Develop structured review frameworks (Risk Control Matrices) for project controls processes.
• Document findings in a way that directors and commercial teams will act on.
• Engage with project directors, controls managers, and contracts teams to discuss findings and agree next steps.
• Follow findings through to closure.

Skills

Project controls

Cost engineering

Planning/Scheduling

Contracts/Commercial

Data interrogation

Technical writing

Education

Engineering degree (Civil/Mechanical/Electrical)

Job description

Position – Project Controls Specialist - Internal Audit

We're looking for a project controls professional, someone who has lived inside EPC project teams building cost reports, schedules, and variation logs to bring that expertise into an independent assurance role. You'll keep using the same technical toolkit (cost engineering, planning, EVM, claims), but apply it as a reviewer testing the integrity of other project teams' numbers, rather than as the one producing them.

This is a strong next step for a senior project controls engineer or cost/planning lead who wants to broaden into risk, governance, and cross-project exposure without leaving the technical substance of EPC project delivery behind.

What you'll actually be doing

• Digging into cost reports, forecasts, and cost-to-complete estimates across UCC's EPC and capital projects (including JV-structured projects) to test whether the numbers hold up
• Reviewing schedule quality critical path logic, delay analysis, EOT claims the way you would if you were sitting in the project, but now checking someone else's work
• Assessing variation orders, claims, and contractual entitlement positions for completeness and supporting evidence
• Evaluating contractor/subcontractor performance data and progress measurement methods
• Building structured review frameworks (Risk Control Matrices) around project controls processes this is a methodology we'll train you on if it's new
• Writing up findings in a way project directors and commercial teams will actually engage with
• Sitting down with project directors, project controls managers, and contracts teams to walk through what you found and agree next steps
• Following findings through to actual closure, not just reporting them

What you bring

• Engineering degree (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, or related)
• 6-8+ years in project controls, cost engineering, planning/scheduling, or contracts/commercial on EPC, construction, or infrastructure projects
• Real fluency in EPC contract structures, claims, variations, and JV project arrangements
• Comfort interrogating cost and schedule data and spotting where something doesn't add up
• Strong writing able to turn a technical issue into a clear point a non-technical stakeholder will act on
• PMP, CCP, or other project management and/or project controls certifications