Project Controls & Reporting Associate Director

About the Role

Parsons is seeking a Project Controls & Reporting Associate Director to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves providing strategic leadership and oversight for project controls, planning, schedule assurance, business intelligence, and reporting activities on large and complex construction projects during the construction phase.

Role Purpose

The Associate Director will ensure that project performance is effectively planned, monitored, analyzed, and reported in alignment with approved schedules, budgets, milestones, contractual requirements, and project objectives. This position requires coordination with project directors, planning and project controls teams, contractors, consultants, commercial and cost teams, construction managers, and client representatives. The role provides senior leadership for project controls, planning, business intelligence, and reporting, ensuring accurate monitoring and reporting of project performance, risks, delays, changes, costs, and key delivery issues to support informed decision-making and successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project controls, planning, reporting, and performance management activities.
• Oversee the development and management of the master program schedule.
• Ensure schedule quality, logic, progress measurement, critical path analysis, and baseline control.
• Monitor planned versus actual progress, milestones, delays, risks, and performance trends.
• Review contractor and consultant schedules, progress updates, recovery plans, and performance reports.
• Provide early warnings and recommendations regarding schedule, cost, risk, and delivery issues.
• Oversee the preparation of weekly, monthly, and executive progress reports.
• Develop business intelligence dashboards, performance indicators, trend reports, and management presentations.
• Ensure the accuracy, consistency, and timely submission of project data and reports.
• Integrate information from schedule, cost, risk, change, procurement, commercial, quality, and construction teams.
• Review the impact of changes, variations, design development, procurement delays, and construction issues.
• Oversee delay analysis, time impact assessments, recovery plans, and mitigation strategies.
• Monitor contractor and consultant performance against approved programs and contractual obligations.
• Lead project performance review meetings and present key issues to senior management.
• Maintain project control systems, dashboards, registers, and reporting procedures.
• Provide leadership, direction, and mentoring to planning, reporting, and project controls teams.
• Support management decision-making through accurate analysis, forecasting, and performance recommendations.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 15 years of experience in project controls and reporting.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within Parsons' Mobility division.