Project Controls Engineer Petrochemical plant project

About the Role

Eram Talent is recruiting on behalf of a leading petrochemical client for a Senior Project Controls Engineer. This contract position is based in Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia, and will support major refinery and petrochemical projects. The role focuses on ensuring effective project controls systems and accurate performance reporting.

Role Overview

The client seeks an experienced project controls professional with a strong background in project planning, scheduling, cost control, forecasting, and performance reporting within EPCM and construction environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, monitoring, analyzing, and reporting project performance across scope, cost, schedule, risk, quality, and safety. This includes ensuring critical-path management and alignment with approved project baselines, as well as coordinating contractor project controls activities and providing guidance to project teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and specialized support for resolving complex project control issues.
• Calculate, analyze, report, and recommend actions on project data, including schedule, cost, budget, risk, quality, and safety.
• Develop project cash-flow forecasts.
• Integrate scope, cost, and schedule within the Work Breakdown Structure and maintain accurate mapping.
• Analyze, evaluate, and forecast current project status against the approved baseline schedule.
• Assess the effects of design or construction changes and schedule slippages.
• Report schedule status to project management, Sadara management, and the client, as applicable.
• Apply engineering, procurement, and construction terminology, concepts, and relationships.
• Develop and maintain critical-path logic networks and bar charts.
• Customize project control systems to meet specific project requirements.
• Accumulate and maintain historical performance data to support realistic future planning and forecasting.
• Guide and oversee EPCM & Construction contractors to effectively set up their project controls & reporting structure.
• Proactively verify and ensure accurate reporting from other project contractors.
• Supervise and support lower-level project controls engineers or support personnel, when assigned.
• Perform other responsibilities associated with the position, as required.

Experience and Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in project controls.
• Strong background in project planning, scheduling, cost control, forecasting, and performance reporting.
• Experience within EPCM and construction environments.

Work Type and Location

This is a contract position located in Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia. The role involves supporting major refinery and petrochemical projects for a leading client in the petrochemical industry.