Senior Project Controls Engineer – Primavera P6 Lead

Mott MacDonald Group; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Medical Insurance

Annual leave

Maternity leave

Professional membership

Career development

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Mott MacDonald Group is seeking an experienced Principal Project Controls Engineer / Principal Planner to lead project controls across major infrastructure and multidisciplinary programmes in Saudi Arabia. You will provide strategic leadership for planning, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, change control and performance reporting throughout the project lifecycle.

Collaborating with Project Directors and client stakeholders, you will establish integrated control systems and governance

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in project controls, planning and scheduling on large-scale infrastructure or multidisciplinary programmes.
• Proven ability to lead project controls functions across complex projects and programmes.
• Strong expertise in Primavera P6 and integrated schedule development.
• Experience establishing project controls frameworks, governance processes and performance reporting systems.
• Sound knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM), cost and schedule integration, and performance measurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of project controls strategies, procedures, governance frameworks and reporting systems across major projects and programmes.
• Establish and maintain integrated project controls systems covering schedule, cost, risk, change and performance management processes.
• Provide leadership, guidance and mentorship to planning and project controls teams.
• Act as the technical authority for planning, scheduling and project controls methodologies across the business.
• Develop, review and assure complex integrated master schedules using Primavera P6.
• Establish Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Control Accounts, coding structures, progress measurement systems and baseline programmes.
• Facilitate schedule development workshops with project teams, clients and stakeholders.
• Perform schedule assurance reviews, programme audits and quality assessments using recognised industry standards.
• Support continuous improvement and digital ways of working, sharing knowledge and lessons learned.
• Demonstrate safe, ethical and inclusive behaviours aligned to Mott MacDonald values.

Skills

Project controls

Scheduling

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Earned Value Management

Communication

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Mott MacDonald Group is seeking an experienced Principal Project Controls Engineer / Principal Planner to lead project controls across major infrastructure and multidisciplinary programmes in Saudi Arabia. You will provide strategic leadership for planning, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, change control and performance reporting throughout the project lifecycle.

Collaborating with Project Directors and client stakeholders, you will establish integrated control systems and governance