Senior Specialist-Programs & Project Control

Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain programme and project controls processes, systems, and reporting frameworks.
• Develop and maintain schedules, programmes, milestones, and performance baselines.
• Monitor progress against schedules, budgets, milestones, and performance indicators.
• Analyse variances, delays, trends, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Review contractor and consultant programmes, reports, forecasts, and submissions.
• Support cost monitoring, forecasting, commitments, expenditure tracking, and Estimate at Completion activities.
• Prepare dashboards, progress reports, metrics, and management presentations.
• Consolidate workstream information for programme reporting and performance analysis.
• Support recovery programmes, mitigation plans, corrective actions, change registers, and impact assessments.
• Coordinate with project management, commercial, contracts, risk, procurement, and technical teams.
• Maintain accurate records of baselines, schedules, progress, changes, forecasts, and approvals.
• Support continuous improvement of controls processes, reporting tools, templates, and data quality.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.
• Professional certification such as PMP, PMI-SP, AACE, or equivalent is advantageous.
• Minimum 7–10 years of relevant programme or project controls experience.
• Relevant experience is preferably within real estate development, construction, infrastructure, or major project environments.
• Strong experience in planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, cost control, forecasting, and project reporting.
• Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, and project reporting tools.
• Understanding of critical path analysis, baselines, change control, risk management, and cost/schedule integration.
• Experience reviewing contractor and consultant schedules and progress submissions.
• Experience supporting multiple projects or programme-level reporting is preferred.

Key Competencies

• Programme and project controls.
• Planning and scheduling.
• Primavera P6.
• Progress monitoring.
• Cost control and forecasting.
• Performance analysis and data analysis.
• Management reporting.
• Change control.
• Risk awareness.
• Stakeholder coordination.
• Attention to detail.