Project Control & Data Quality Expert

About the Role

Norconsult Telematics is seeking a Project Control & Data Quality Expert to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This contract role focuses on managing project planning, monitoring, and control across various project dimensions, including scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality. The objective is to ensure project delivery within approved baselines and to maintain high data accuracy and consistency for reliable reporting and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement project control processes, procedures, and progress measurement methods.
• Coordinate with execution teams to develop comprehensive schedules for site acquisition, design, permitting, construction, and technical installation.
• Maintain the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and approved scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
• Monitor milestones, physical progress, earned value, and productivity, identifying deviations and recommending corrective actions.
• Validate contractor and internal team progress claims against supporting records and agreed measurement criteria.
• Manage change control records, ensuring scope variations and baseline changes are assessed, documented, and formally approved.
• Monitor budgets, commitments, and expenditure, prepare cost forecasts, and analyze design versus as-built variances.
• Coordinate with Finance and Procurement on cost records, purchase order utilization, procurement requirements, and purchase order closure.
• Maintain risk registers, monitor risk indicators, and coordinate mitigation actions with responsible teams.
• Coordinate with various stakeholders including delivery, design, field audit, maintenance, operations, and client representatives to resolve project control and reporting issues.
• Monitor contractor and supplier performance against contractual milestones, reporting requirements, and deliverables, escalating deviations and potential claims.
• Prepare project performance reports and maintain schedules, change records, approvals, and supporting documentation.

Data Quality and Reporting

• Define project data standards, including data definitions, naming conventions, mandatory fields, ownership, and quality thresholds.
• Establish data governance responsibilities across schedule, cost, progress, procurement, change, and risk information.
• Perform data validation and reconciliation across source systems using Excel, SQL, and Power BI, resolving discrepancies, duplicates, missing records, and outliers.
• Design and maintain Power BI dashboards and data models with automated refresh, validation checks, and controlled reporting logic.
• Maintain data quality issue logs and scorecards, coordinate corrective actions, and escalate recurring or critical issues to the Project Control Manager.
• Ensure contractor and internal submissions comply with agreed formats, data standards, and submission deadlines.
• Maintain data dictionaries, lineage, KPI definitions, and transformation logic to support reporting transparency and auditability.
• Apply data access, security, version control, and archiving requirements in accordance with company policies.
• Support internal and external audits, conduct lessons learned reviews, and improve reporting processes through automation and team training.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• 5-10 years of proven experience in project management or project controls within civil engineering and technical installation projects. Experience in the government sector or traffic system installation is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of project scheduling, cost control, progress measurement, risk management, and change control.
• Practical capability in Excel, SQL, and Power BI for data validation, reconciliation, analysis, and dashboard reporting.
• Strong working knowledge of other Microsoft Office applications, project management software, and databases.
• Experience in data quality, data governance, or analytics within a project control or PMO environment is highly desirable.
• Understanding of contractual milestones, reporting obligations, and contractor performance requirements.
• PMP or PRINCE2 certification is an advantage.
• Relevant data management or analytics certification, such as DAMA CDMP or Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst, is an advantage.

Required Skills

• Strong client-facing communication, stakeholder coordination, and team leadership skills.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.

Work Type

This is a contract position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Salary for this role will be disclosed during the interview process.