Department Manager - Project Controls

HILL INTERNATIONAL; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction management firm in Saudi Arabia seeks a Department Manager - Project Controls. This role entails overseeing budgeting, cost management, and scheduling for large-scale projects. The ideal candidate will have at least 20 years of experience, strong communication skills, and advanced knowledge of scheduling software such as Primavera P6. This position offers an opportunity to lead project control functions while ensuring adherence to quality and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum 20 years experience in planning and scheduling.
• Experience as scheduling manager on large-scale projects.
• Thorough knowledge of cost engineering and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all project control functions including budgeting and scheduling.
• Coordinate with contractors on schedule and cost analysis.
• Ensure compliance with company quality and regulatory standards.

Skills

Cost engineering

Planning and scheduling

Communication skills

Budget management

Document management

Education

Bachelor in engineering from an accredited Western university

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

About the job Department Manager - Project Controls

Company Introduction:

Hill International provides program, project, and construction management services for clients in a range of sectors undertaking major construction projects across the world. Our services include cost engineering and estimating, quality assurance, inspection, scheduling, risk management, and claims avoidance. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com

Position Summary

The Department Manager – Project Controls is responsible for overseeing all project control functions, including budgeting, cost management, scheduling, change management, document control, and testing & commissioning activities across large-scale projects. This role ensures adherence to project policies, implements standardized processes and tools, monitors project performance, and provides technical guidance while developing the capabilities of the project controls team. Additionally, the manager coordinates with contractors, supervises schedule and cost analysis, prepares high-level reports, and ensures compliance with company quality, safety, and regulatory standards.

General Description of Role and Responsibilities

• Has overall responsibility for managing and monitoring budgets, cost, planning/scheduling, and management of change, including managing the development and implementation of budgets and baselines to meet the project objectives and ensure adherence to the policies and procedures of the project.
• Assessing the capability of project control staff and recommending appropriate roles and responsibilities.
• Inputting to the project control department knowledge transfer program includes comprehensive on-the-job learning.
• Developing and getting ratified section operating structure and department operating processes and procedures based on the PMM processes and procedures.
• Controlling and monitoring project schedules from registration to handover.
• Implementing the relevant Stage Gate Process on all new and existing projects.
• Ensuring that all projects provide input to monthly dashboards, consistent with project guidelines.
• Undertaking cost-related activities.
• Preparing and maintaining portfolio cost reports, showing the budget for each project, forecast commitments and actual costs.
• Defining cost requirements for contracts.
• Preparing financial input for contracts.
• Preparation of consolidated cost report.
• Establish project invoice registration and update it monthly.
• Monitor the project's cash flow and available funds.
• Implementing PMM standard planning and scheduling processes and procedures.
• Undertaking all planning and schedule-related activities.
• Preparing and maintaining portfolio level 1 management schedule showing plan/actual/forecast for each project in a single line highlighting critical projects.
• Preparing and maintaining a level 1 stage gate schedule for each project.
• Preparing schedules for projects before bidding.
• Defining schedule requirements for contracts.
• Evaluating bidder's schedule submittals.
• Preparing milestones and schedules input for contracts.
• Maintaining Master Schedule.
• Preparing consolidated schedule performance report.
• Review and approve baseline schedules submitted by the contractor.
• Review the recovery plans and corrective actions proposed by contractors and accepted by the supervision consultant.
• Implementing an Enterprise Documents Management System (EDMS) per relevant retention legislation.
• Developing a structure and archiving project documents.
• Preparing document management input for contracts.
• Preparing the Document Management department knowledge transfer program, which includes comprehensive on-the-job learning.
• Monitoring and auditing of clusters Document Management performance, including spot checks and other verification of adherence to project record filing requirements per project.
• Preparing testing and commissioning scope of work for construction RFPs.
• Reviewing testing and commissioning aspects of contractors' proposed Project Execution Plans.
• Preparing testing and commissioning input to contracts.
• Assigning testing and commissioning resources to projects.
• Maintaining functional responsibility for testing and commissioning resources assigned to projects.
• Maintaining overall responsibility for construction contractor/subcontractor testing, commissioning performance, and adherence to their respective contracts.
• Development and rectification of department operating structure [Org. Chart, Roles, Responsibilities] as well tools to be deployed [software, apply Intl best practice].
• Informs themselves of the relevant Quality, Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health Policies, Manuals, and Procedures in place within Hill International, and ensures continued compliance with these requirements while employed by Hill.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager/supervisor.

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor in engineering from an accredited Western university.
• Minimum 20 years experience in planning and scheduling, including working as the scheduling manager on large-scale projects.
• Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience in directing cost engineering, cost estimating, control and analysis, planning and scheduling, schedule development, control, and analysis. Experience and demonstrated skill in establishing criteria and system set-up for all project control activities.
• Knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup/set-up work processes.
• Involvement in continuous improvement and capacity building/talent development.
• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes.
• Professional user of scheduling software such as Primavera P6 and EPPM platform.
• Ability to review and analyze project schedules and contractor performance.
• Demonstrated management skill, supervisory and personnel administrative functions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working internationally (preference KSA experience).