Summary
Dar Al Riyadh is seeking a Project Control Engineer in Riyadh. The role covers integrated scheduling, baseline development, progress and cost monitoring, forecasting, risk and change control, and project-control reporting. Candidates need an engineering bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience, with advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and Excel. PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP/CCP or an equivalent certification is preferred.
The posting
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Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and update integrated project schedules using Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or equivalent scheduling software.
- Establish work breakdown structures, activity coding, project calendars, milestones, logical relationships and baseline schedules.
- Monitor actual progress against approved baselines and identify schedule variances, critical-path changes, delays and emerging constraints.
- Prepare short- and long-term forecasts covering completion dates, resource requirements, cash flow and project-delivery risks.
- Develop project budgets, cost baselines and cost-control procedures aligned with the approved scope and schedule.
- Monitor commitments, expenditures, accruals and forecasts and perform planned-versus-actual cost and schedule variance analyses.
- Analyze project performance using appropriate project-control methods, including earned-value indicators where applicable.
- Identify schedule, cost, resource and delivery risks and coordinate the development and monitoring of mitigation actions.
- Prepare weekly and monthly project-control reports, dashboards, progress curves, forecasts and executive performance summaries.
- Assess scope changes, variations and delay events and evaluate their potential cost and schedule impacts.
- Maintain change-control records and ensure that changes are properly documented, reviewed, approved and incorporated into project baselines.
- Coordinate with project managers, engineers, contractors, commercial teams and other stakeholders to validate progress and performance data.
- Review contractor schedules, progress updates, recovery plans, cost reports and supporting documentation.
- Recommend corrective actions and recovery measures when actual performance deviates from approved plans.
- Maintain accurate project-control records, assumptions, progress-measurement methods, risk registers and audit trails.
- Support quality assurance by verifying that project-control deliverables comply with approved procedures, contractual requirements and applicable standards.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from a recognized university.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience in project controls, planning, scheduling and cost management.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel.
- Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining baseline, updated and recovery schedules.
- Strong knowledge of critical-path analysis, progress measurement, resource loading, forecasting and schedule-variance analysis.
- Practical experience in budgeting, cost control, cash-flow forecasting and cost-variance analysis.
- Experience preparing project dashboards, progress reports and executive performance presentations.
- Sound understanding of risk management, change control and project-performance measurement.
- Ability to analyze complex project data and convert findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and attention-to-detail capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder-coordination skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary and team-oriented project environment.
- Familiarity with construction contracts, claims, variations and applicable legal or contractual frameworks is advantageous.
- PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP/CCP or an equivalent recognized professional certification is preferred