Project Controls Manager
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About the Role
Parsons Corporation seeks a Project Controls Manager to lead project controls for large-scale infrastructure projects in Riyadh. The role involves schedule management, cost control, risk management, and reporting under FIDIC contracts.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the project controls function for assigned roads, districts, and logistics projects under the FIDIC Engineer’s remit
- Develop and implement project controls strategies, procedures, tools, and templates
- Develop, review, and maintain integrated master schedules for all assigned projects
- Review and validate contractors' baseline and updated schedules using Primavera P6
- Monitor schedule performance, identify variances, and provide early warning of potential delays
- Establish and maintain cost control structures and implement Earned Value Management
- Implement and manage project change control processes
- Maintain and update project risk registers and perform schedule risk analysis
- Prepare and consolidate periodic project controls reports
- Manage and mentor a team of planners, project controls engineers, and analysts
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or related discipline
- 10+ years of progressive experience in project controls on large scale infrastructure projects
- Proven experience supporting FIDIC based contracts as part of an Engineer, PMC, or major consultancy
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6
- Strong knowledge of project controls processes across schedule, cost, risk, change, and reporting
- Demonstrated capability in schedule delay analysis methods
- Familiarity with Earned Value Management and KPI based performance measurement
- Solid understanding of contracts administration and commercial processes
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
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Job Description
- Parsons is seeking a highly experienced Project Controls Manager to play a key role within their team.
- The Project Controls Manager is responsible for establishing, leading, and maintaining robust project controls (with a strong emphasis on schedule management) to support the FIDIC Engineer in delivering their full delegated duties under the Delivery Partner Agreement.
- The role covers roads, districts and logistics packages within the Master Development Unit Projects portfolio.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the project controls function for assigned roads, districts and logistics projects under the FIDIC Engineer’s remit within the MDU‑P portfolio.
- Develop and implement project controls strategies, procedures, tools and templates aligned with the Client’s and Delivery Partner’s requirements.
- Coordinate and integrate planning, cost, risk, change and reporting activities across multiple contracts and stakeholders.
- Develop, review and maintain integrated master schedules for all assigned projects, covering design, procurement, construction, testing & commissioning and handover.
- Review and validate Contractors’ baseline and updated schedules (e.g. using Primavera P6), ensuring compliance with FIDIC requirements, Employer’s requirements and contract provisions.
- Analyse logic, sequencing, interfaces, resource loading and productivity to ensure realistic, constructible and optimized schedules for roads, districts and logistics scopes.
- Monitor schedule performance, identify variances, assess critical and near‑critical paths and provide early warning of potential delays.
- Coordinate schedule interfaces between multiple work packages, districts and logistics corridors, ensuring alignment with overall program milestones and dependencies.
- Support the FIDIC Engineer in schedule‑related contractual matters (extensions of time, acceleration, mitigation, liquidated damages, etc.).
- Establish and maintain cost control structures in coordination with Commercial and Contracts Administration teams.
- Implement Earned Value Management (EVM) and other performance measurement techniques to monitor time–cost performance.
- Track progress against baseline, including physical progress, quantities and key performance indicators, and reconcile with financial/cost data.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in project controls on large‑scale infrastructure projects, including major roads/highways and/or urban districts; Middle East experience preferred.
- Proven experience in a similar role supporting FIDIC‑based contracts (e.g. FIDIC Red/Yellow/Silver Book) as part of an Engineer, PMC, or major consultancy.
- Advanced proficiency in planning and scheduling tools, particularly Primavera P6; experience with other tools (e.g. TILOS, MS Project) is an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of project controls processes across schedule, cost, risk, change and reporting.
- Demonstrated capability in schedule delay analysis methods (e.g. time impact analysis, windows analysis, as‑planned vs as‑built).
- Familiarity with Earned Value Management and KPI‑based performance measurement.
- Solid understanding of contracts administration and commercial processes on large infrastructure projects.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word); experience with BI/reporting tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) is an advantage.
- Excellent analytical, problem‑solving and critical‑thinking skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex schedule and controls data to non‑specialists.
- Ability to work within a multi‑disciplinary, multicultural team and manage multiple stakeholders.
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