Senior Project Controls Manager

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons in Saudi Arabia seeks a Senior Project Controls Manager to lead planning, scheduling, progress measurement, risk, change and performance management for a major luxury development. You will establish baselines, monitor progress, prepare executive dashboards, and coordinate with design and construction teams to forecast completion dates.

You will drive earned value analysis, schedule risk, and change control, while preparing monthly reports and operating across commercial, procurement, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related discipline.
• Minimum 15+ years of experience in project controls, planning, and reporting.
• Experience on major luxury high-end developments, resorts, mixed-use, infrastructure, or complex building projects.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Strong knowledge of scheduling, progress measurement, risk management, change control, and delay analysis.
• Experience preparing executive-level reports and dashboards.
• Excellent analytical, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated design and project controls systems.
• Establish baseline schedules, design programs, milestone plans, and progress measurement procedures.
• Monitor design deliverables, approvals, procurement interfaces, construction information, and handover activities.
• Prepare monthly reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and performance updates.
• Coordinate with design managers and consultants to measure actual progress and forecast completion dates.
• Monitor critical paths, float, constraints, dependencies, and recovery actions.
• Maintain change control, trend logs, risk registers, and opportunity registers.
• Assess schedule impacts arising from design changes, delayed decisions, late information, and authority approvals.
• Support earned value, productivity, performance, and forecast reporting.
• Coordinate with commercial, procurement, document control, design, and construction teams.
• Perform schedule analysis and recommend mitigation and recovery measures.
• Support client, consultant, and stakeholder reporting requirements.
• Assist with extension-of-time reviews, delay analysis, and schedule impact assessments.

Skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related

Tools

Primavera P6

Power BI

TILOS

Deltek Acumen

Job description

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Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Controls Manager to lead planning, scheduling, progress measurement, reporting, risk, change, and performance management for a major luxury high-end development.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop and maintain integrated design and project controls systems.
• Establish baseline schedules, design programs, milestone plans, and progress measurement procedures.
• Monitor design deliverables, approvals, procurement interfaces, construction information, and handover activities.
• Prepare monthly reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and performance updates.
• Coordinate with design managers and consultants to measure actual progress and forecast completion dates.
• Monitor critical paths, float, constraints, dependencies, and recovery actions.
• Maintain change control, trend logs, risk registers, and opportunity registers.
• Assess schedule impacts arising from design changes, delayed decisions, late information, and authority approvals.
• Support earned value, productivity, performance, and forecast reporting.
• Coordinate with commercial, procurement, document control, design, and construction teams.
• Perform schedule analysis and recommend mitigation and recovery measures.
• Support client, consultant, and stakeholder reporting requirements.
• Assist with extension-of-time reviews, delay analysis, and schedule impact assessments.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 15+ years of experience in project controls, planning, and reporting.
• Experience on major luxury high-end developments, resorts, mixed-use, infrastructure, or complex building projects.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Strong knowledge of scheduling, progress measurement, risk management, change control, and delay analysis.
• Experience preparing executive-level reports and dashboards.
• Excellent analytical, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

• AACE, PMI-SP, PMP, or equivalent certification.
• Experience with Power BI, TILOS, Deltek Acumen, or similar project controls tools.
• Experience with earned value management and quantitative schedule risk analysis.
• Knowledge of cost control, forecasting, and commercial reporting.
• Experience with large-scale luxury high-end developments.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Confidential

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