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About the Role

Staff Connect UAE is seeking a highly experienced Project Control Manager for a senior, owner-side governance role in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This position is critical for establishing, managing, and maintaining independent project controls, reporting frameworks, and performance monitoring systems for large-scale development projects. The role will provide leadership with essential visibility into programme progress, cost performance, risks, issues, changes, and consultant/contractor performance through accurate and timely reporting.

As the central control function, you will validate project data from consultants and contractors, identify deviations, monitor recovery actions, and ensure alignment with approved project objectives, timelines, and governance requirements. This role will establish standalone reporting systems and dashboards, independent of ERP platforms, to support effective project governance and executive decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated master programmes covering all project phases, including planning, early works, design, procurement, and construction/execution.
• Monitor project milestones, progress, and critical activities, identifying schedule delays, slippages, and recovery requirements.
• Independently review consultant and contractor schedules for logic, feasibility, resource alignment, and compliance with project objectives.
• Establish and maintain project cost tracking frameworks, monitoring cost trends and identifying potential budget deviations.
• Support forecasting activities and financial performance reporting, reviewing cost-related inputs from consultants and contractors, and providing early warnings on potential cost risks.
• Develop and maintain project risk, issues, and change registers, monitoring mitigation plans and corrective actions, and identifying emerging project risks with recommended responses.
• Escalate critical risks, delays, and performance concerns to leadership with clear recommendations.
• Monitor consultant and contractor performance against contractual obligations, project milestones, deliverable requirements, and quality expectations, validating project information received from external stakeholders and identifying performance gaps to support corrective action planning.
• Prepare executive dashboards, progress reports, and management presentations, developing reporting systems to provide clear visibility of programme status, cost performance, risks and issues, change management, and consultant and contractor performance.
• Ensure all reporting information is accurate, traceable, and supported by project documentation, providing data-driven insights to support leadership decision-making.
• Establish and maintain standalone project reporting systems and dashboards, developing reporting standards, templates, and governance processes to ensure consistency and accuracy of project data across stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement of project control processes and maintain structured records for audit and governance purposes.
• Coordinate with the Senior Architectural Lead and Senior Infrastructure Engineer to integrate design, construction, and technical updates into project reporting.
• Support cross-functional requirements as directed by GM – Network Development & Maintenance and collaborate with project teams to ensure effective information flow and reporting alignment.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, or a related discipline.
• 7-10 years of experience in project controls, project reporting, program management, and governance functions.
• Experience working on large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Previous experience in owner-side environments, EPC projects, and consultant/contractor management.
• Advanced English language proficiency is mandatory.
• Arabic language proficiency is preferred.

Required Skills

• Proficiency in programme and milestone control, project schedule review and validation, and cost tracking and financial monitoring.
• Expertise in risk, issues, and change management, and consultant and contractor performance monitoring.
• Skilled in executive dashboard development, data integrity and reporting governance, and forecasting and trend analysis.
• Experience with contractual milestone tracking and project reporting system development.
• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities with the ability to challenge and validate consultant and contractor data.
• A strong understanding of project schedules and cost analysis, coupled with excellent attention to detail and governance discipline.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced project environment.
• Demonstrated leadership competencies in decision-making under project constraints, risk identification and escalation management, cross-functional alignment, performance monitoring and governance, and data-driven decision support.

Additional Information

This is a full-time position based in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The role requires 5-10 years of experience. Initially, there is no direct line management, but the position involves functional oversight of project reporting inputs from consultants and contractors, and the governance of project control information.

Preferred Candidate Profile: A highly experienced Project Controls and Reporting professional with strong expertise in program management, reporting governance, risk management, and stakeholder coordination. The ideal candidate should have proven experience in large-scale development projects, the ability to validate project information independently, and the capability to provide accurate, executive-level insights to support strategic decision-making.

Professional Certifications (Preferred): PMP, PMI-SP, AACE Certification, or an equivalent Project Controls Certification.