Master Planning & Scheduling Manager

Confidential; Al Ahsa Governorate; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management firm in Saudi Arabia seeks a Project-Controls Analyst to drive data-enabled decision making on large capital projects. The successful candidate will be responsible for integrating various data sources to deliver insightful dashboards and reports using Power BI, ensuring data quality, and providing training to project teams. This role demands 8+ years of relevant experience and a strong educational background in IT or related fields, aiming to leverage advanced BI tools in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in project-controls analytics or PMIS engineering.
• Experience with SQL, SharePoint Online, and Power Platform.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and visualization.

Responsibilities

• Design and build interactive Power BI dashboards for project controls.
• Lead monthly governance reviews and monitor data quality KPIs.
• Deliver training sessions to enhance BI literacy among team members.

Skills

Data quality monitoring

Power BI dashboard design

Data governance

ETL processes

Education

Bachelor’s in computer science or Information Technology

Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst

ITIL Foundation

Google Data Analytics Professional Cert.

Job description

Job Overview:

Drive data-enabled decision making across large capital projects by architecting, automating, and visualizing project-controls information. The role transforms raw schedule, cost, risk, and document data into intuitive dashboards, workflows, and reports using Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint Online, and SQL. Working as a partner to project managers, cost engineers, and site teams, the specialist ensures information integrity, champions governance standards, and builds user capability in modern BI tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Co-author and maintain the Digital Project-Controls roadmap, aligning Power Platform architecture with company PMIS standards.
• Define data taxonomies, WBS coding structures, and metadata rules to guarantee single-source-of-truth reporting (leveraging experience setting up WBS & fact tables in projects.)
• Monitor adherence to data quality KPIs and lead monthly governance reviews with senior stakeholders.
• Design, build, and iterate interactive Power BI dashboards that merge schedule, cost, risk, and document workflows.
• Develop low-code apps and automated approval flows in Power Apps / Power Automate to streamline transmittals, status updates, and site data capture.
• Perform ETL: extract from SharePoint lists, SQL/Dataverse, Excel, and external APIs; transform and model for performant analytics.
• Troubleshoot data issues, optimize DAX/Power Query, and ensure report refresh reliability.
• Validate cost and progress data before it feeds executive dashboards; highlight variances and potential overruns early.
• Provide scenario modelling to support cash-flow phasing, contingency draw-down, and earned-value projections.
• Deliver tailored training sessions and user clinics for engineers, planners, and executives; raise overall BI literacy.
• Act as mentor for junior analysts; share best practice in data modelling, visual design, and storytelling with data.
• Serve as the digital bridge between client, consultants, and subcontractors—facilitating secure data exchange through SharePoint Online and Azure AD (experience administering 400 + users).
• Coordinate with IT to manage licenses (Power BI Pro, Premium, Remedy, etc.) and enforce permission models.
• Lead rollouts of new dashboards/apps, including stakeholder onboarding, feedback loops, and iterative enhancements.
• Advocate continuous improvement, capturing lessons learned and converting them into upgraded workflows.
• Draft, publish and maintain data‐governance SOPs covering WBS coding, SharePoint library structures, security groups and retention rules.
• Align all Power Platform workflows to ITIL and corporate PMIS standards, audit for compliance each quarter.
• Produce weekly “health-check” decks (SPI/CPI, risk heat‐map, RFI aging, schedule slippage) for the Project Controls Manager.
• Automate executive dashboards that roll up cost, schedule and document KPIs to C-level in Power BI Service.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in computer science, Information Technology or similar
• Desirable to have Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst (or DP-500), ITIL Foundation & OSA Intermediate and Google Data Analytics Professional Cert.
• 8 + years in project-controls analytics or PMIS engineering.