Lead Project Controls Engineer

MENAISCO; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management firm in Jeddah seeks an experienced planner to oversee large turnkey projects. You will ensure compliance with global standards, manage costs, and develop integrated project schedules. Candidates should have a degree in engineering, 5+ years of planning experience, and a successful track record in controlling project costs. This role contributes significantly to project success in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in planning large turnkey projects.
• Experience in controlling costs on large projects.
• Lead planner position on at least two turnkey projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance to global standards for planning.
• Develop and maintain project schedules integrating inputs from all functions.
• Drive cost operating rhythm to discuss risks and opportunities.

Skills

Planning large turnkey projects

Cost controlling

Risk mitigation

Schedule management

Forensic analysis

Education

Degree in Engineering with Financial Training

Job description

Business Line

Grid Systems Integration

Reports to

PC Hub Leader

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Overall

Scheduling

• Ensure compliance to Global Standards for planning
• Builds tender integrated schedules using the established tools and processes and challenges the team to ensure schedule risk is managed with a balance of competitive offering aligned to historical performance
• Builds and maintain the single project schedule representing the entire project by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project
• Ensure proper linkages in schedule to show all interdependencies between contributing parties
• Ensure functional owners sign off on commitments and are made accountable for their date
• Works collaboratively with other overall project planning team to ensure optimal alignment of schedule with overall schedule
• Delivers a high-quality schedule aligned with global standards to ensure project is accurately represented
• Maintains schedule thru the entire project obtaining inputs from all project contributors
• Drives regular operating rhythm with project team to review schedule status and operating rhythm
• Challenges functional owners on forecast completion dates to ensure dates are realistic
• Provides schedule analysis to forecast schedule risk and opportunities using available tools and experience
• Provides look ahead, backlog and future late reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities
• Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility
• Provides strategies to mitigate risks
• Drives functional owners to mitigate risks and follows up with functional owners on risk mitigation actions
• Collaborate with 3rd parties on project schedules and cost
• Provides and communicate regular status reporting

Cost Controlling

• Ensure the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
• Reviews project schedule and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Reviews project scope evolution to identify cost risk and opportunities
• Reviews functional execution and events to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Provides cost analytics using project information and analysing cost and productivity trends
• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
• Own and drive the Budget Deviation Process with tools
• Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities
• Develops cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where needed
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
• Communicates cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status and actions
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Provide time based cost forecasts to support revenue recognition
• Analyze all the risks and opportunities communicate clearly priorities and potential impacts
• Support change order analysis
• Support claim preparations
• Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting
• Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
• Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost
• Ensure Alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)

Quality & Lean

• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function
• Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner
• Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements

EHS

• Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions
• Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions
• Ensure safety work instructions are complied
• Participate in the resolution of safety issues.
• Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed

Performance Measurement

• Schedule quality
• Cost forecasting quality
• Schedule forecast quality
• Cost and schedule performance of project
• Timeliness of reporting

Qualifications & Experience

Educational Requirements

Degree qualified in engineering (with financial training)

Desired Knowledge & Experience

5+ years planning large turnkey projects

2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects

Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects

Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects

Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects