Project Controls Specialist, Internal Audit

UCC Holding; Doha; On-site; QAR 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

UCC Holding in Qatar is seeking a senior project controls professional to join as an independent reviewer, applying cost engineering, planning, EVM, and claims experience to test the integrity of others' numbers rather than producing them.

You will work with EPC project teams, evaluate cost-to-complete estimates, schedules, and variation orders, and present findings clearly to project directors and contracts teams, guiding next steps toward closure.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years in project controls on EPC, construction, or infrastructure projects.
• Fluency in EPC contract structures, claims, variations, and JV project arrangements.
• Ability to interrogate cost and schedule data and identify inconsistencies.
• Strong written communication for non-technical stakeholders.
• Professional certifications like PMP or CCP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review cost reports, forecasts, and cost-to-complete estimates across EPC/capital projects to verify numbers.
• Assess schedule quality, critical path logic, delay analysis, and EOT claims.
• Evaluate variation orders, claims, and contractual entitlements with supporting evidence.
• Assess contractor/subcontractor performance data and progress measurement methods.
• Develop structured review frameworks around project controls processes.
• Discuss findings with project directors and contracts teams and drive closure.

Skills

Cost engineering

Planning & scheduling

Earned Value Management

Contract/claims experience

Risk assessment

Technical writing

Education

Engineering degree (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical)

Tools

Cost reporting tools

Progress measurement methods

EPC project controls

Job description

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 control 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