Project Control Engineer

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh Consultants is seeking a Project Control Engineer to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time position is central to managing and overseeing project schedules, costs, and performance, ensuring alignment with project objectives and contractual requirements. The role involves comprehensive project control activities from planning and scheduling to monitoring and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update integrated project schedules using Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or equivalent software.
• Establish work breakdown structures, activity coding, project calendars, milestones, logical relationships, and baseline schedules.
• Monitor actual progress against approved baselines, identifying 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, performing 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, evaluating their potential cost and schedule impacts.
• Maintain change-control records, ensuring 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.

Required Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in project control engineering.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or equivalent scheduling software.
• Strong analytical skills for schedule and cost variance analysis.
• Ability to develop and manage project budgets and cost baselines.
• Experience with earned-value management (EVM) indicators.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within Dar Al Riyadh Consultants. The role requires collaboration with various internal and external stakeholders, including project managers, engineers, contractors, and commercial teams.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the specified requirements are encouraged to apply.