Project Control Engineer

Dar Al Riyadh Group; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Dar Al Riyadh Group is seeking an experienced Project Controls professional to develop and maintain integrated project schedules using Primavera P6, MS Project, or similar tools. You will establish baselines, WBS, calendars and milestones to enable robust cost and schedule control.

You will monitor progress, analyze variances, prepare dashboards and executive summaries, and coordinate with project managers and stakeholders to ensure accurate progress reporting throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in project controls, planning and cost management.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and update integrated project schedules using Primavera P6, MS Project or equivalent scheduling software.
• Establish work breakdown structures, activity coding, project calendars, milestones, logical relationships and baseline schedules.
• Monitor actual progress against baselines and identify schedule variances, critical-path changes, delays and emerging constraints.
• Prepare short- and long-term forecasts covering completion dates, resource requirements, cash flow and project-delivery risks.
• Develop project budgets, cost baselines and cost-control procedures aligned with the approved scope and schedule.
• Monitor commitments, expenditures, accruals and forecasts and perform planned-versus-actual cost and schedule variance analyses.
• Analyze project performance using appropriate project-control methods, including earned-value indicators where applicable.
• Identify schedule, cost, resource and delivery risks and coordinate mitigation actions.
• Prepare weekly and monthly project-control reports, dashboards, progress curves, forecasts and executive performance summaries.
• Assess scope changes, variations and delay events and evaluate their potential cost and schedule impacts.
• Maintain change-control records and ensure changes are properly documented, reviewed, approved and incorporated into baselines.
• Coordinate with project managers, engineers, contractors, commercial teams and other stakeholders to validate progress and performance data.
• Review contractor schedules, progress updates, recovery plans, cost reports and supporting documentation.
• Recommend corrective actions and recovery measures when actual performance deviates from approved plans.
• Maintain accurate project-control records, assumptions, progress-measurement methods, risk registers and audit trails.
• Support quality assurance by verifying that project-control deliverables comply with approved procedures, contractual requirements and applicable standards.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Communication

Stakeholder coordination

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

Job description

• Develop, maintain and update integrated project schedules using Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or equivalent scheduling software.
• Establish work breakdown structures, activity coding, project calendars, milestones, logical relationships and baseline schedules.
• Monitor actual progress against approved baselines and identify schedule variances, critical-path changes, delays and emerging constraints.
• Prepare short- and long-term forecasts covering completion dates, resource requirements, cash flow and project-delivery risks.
• Develop project budgets, cost baselines and cost-control procedures aligned with the approved scope and schedule.
• Monitor commitments, expenditures, accruals and forecasts and perform planned-versus-actual cost and schedule variance analyses.
• Analyze project performance using appropriate project-control methods, including earned-value indicators where applicable.
• Identify schedule, cost, resource and delivery risks and coordinate the development and monitoring of mitigation actions.
• Prepare weekly and monthly project-control reports, dashboards, progress curves, forecasts and executive performance summaries.
• Assess scope changes, variations and delay events and evaluate their potential cost and schedule impacts.
• Maintain change-control records and ensure that changes are properly documented, reviewed, approved and incorporated into project baselines.
• Coordinate with project managers, engineers, contractors, commercial teams and other stakeholders to validate progress and performance data.
• Review contractor schedules, progress updates, recovery plans, cost reports and supporting documentation.
• Recommend corrective actions and recovery measures when actual performance deviates from approved plans.
• Maintain accurate project-control records, assumptions, progress-measurement methods, risk registers and audit trails.
• Support quality assurance by verifying that project-control deliverables comply with approved procedures, contractual requirements and applicable standards.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from a recognized university.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience in project controls, planning, scheduling and cost management.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining baseline, updated and recovery schedules.
• Strong knowledge of critical-path analysis, progress measurement, resource loading, forecasting and schedule-variance analysis.
• Practical experience in budgeting, cost control, cash-flow forecasting and cost-variance analysis.
• Experience preparing project dashboards, progress reports and executive performance presentations.
• Sound understanding of risk management, change control and project-performance measurement.
• Ability to analyze complex project data and convert findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and attention-to-detail capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary and team-oriented project environment.
• Familiarity with construction contracts, claims, variations and applicable legal or contractual frameworks is advantageous.
• PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP/CCP or an equivalent recognized professional certification is preferred