Project Control Manager

Role Overview

Project Controls Leadership

• Lead the Project Controls team, including Planning Engineers, Cost Engineers, Risk Specialists, and Reporting Engineers.
• Develop procedures, systems, reporting requirements, and governance while providing professional guidance to project teams.

Planning, Cost, and Progress

• Maintain integrated engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up schedules and review EPC contractor baseline schedules and updates.
• Monitor milestones, critical paths, schedule indicators, delays, and recovery plans.
• Monitor budgets, commitments, expenditures, forecasts, variances, final costs, and cash flow requirements.
• Implement progress measurement, validate discipline progress, apply KPIs and Earned Value Management, and monitor productivity and contractor performance.

Risk, Change, and Reporting

• Lead risk workshops and assessments, maintain risk registers and mitigation plans, monitor exposure, and report emerging project risks.
• Administer change management, evaluate schedule and cost impacts, and monitor variation orders and change requests.
• Prepare weekly and monthly performance reports, executive dashboards, KPI reports, and project analyses for management and stakeholders.

Contractor and Stakeholder Management

• Review contractor planning, scheduling, and reporting deliverables and monitor compliance with contractual reporting obligations.
• Support contractor claims and extension-of-time evaluations, conduct performance reviews and audits, and recommend corrective actions.
• Coordinate with ADNOC Offshore, PMC, EPC contractors, vendors, and other stakeholders across project functions.

Education and Experience

• A bachelor's degree in Engineering is required; a master's degree in engineering, project management, business administration, or a related discipline is preferred.
• At least 15 to 20 years of experience in oil and gas, petrochemical, energy, or major capital projects is required.
• At least 10 years of project controls leadership experience on large EPC or EPCI projects is required.
• Offshore oil and gas project controls experience and experience on projects exceeding USD 500 million are required.

Preferred Experience and Certifications

• ADNOC Offshore, offshore facilities, gas processing and compression, Greenfield EPC/EPCI, PMC consultancy, and Middle East project experience are preferred.
• PMP, CCP, PSP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, or AACE International certification is preferred.

Systems and Competencies

• Project controls competencies include planning, scheduling, cost engineering, cost control, progress measurement, EVM, forecasting, risk, change management, reporting, and benchmarking.
• Listed systems include Primavera P6, Primavera Risk Analysis, Oracle Primavera Unifier, EcoSys, SAP, Power BI, Microsoft Project, and advanced Microsoft Excel.
• Commercial competencies include EPC contract administration, claims support, extension-of-time evaluation, change orders, and commercial risk assessment.
• The role requires leadership, analytical, communication, negotiation, decision-making, commercial awareness, and stakeholder management skills.