Senior Project Controls Manager

About Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is a key delivery partner for one of Saudi Arabia’s flagship giga projects, central to Vision 2030. This landmark development, located approximately 45 km southwest of Riyadh, aims to diversify the economy and enhance quality of life through world-class attractions, residential communities, and natural landscapes, while generating significant employment and enabling long-term, sustainable growth.

Role Overview

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Project Controls Manager for a full-time position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, covering all SA Regions. This role involves leading and coordinating the project controls function across a major program of works, ensuring the effective integration of schedule management, reporting, risk, information management, change control, and interface management throughout the project lifecycle. The Senior Manager will provide leadership and technical guidance to the project controls team, ensuring project information is accurate, consistent, and transparent to enable informed decision-making and effective project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the project controls function, integrating schedule, reporting, risk, information management, change control, and interface management activities across the project lifecycle.
• Prepare, maintain, and review internal project schedules, ensuring alignment with program governance, reporting requirements, contractual obligations, and established project controls standards.
• Review contractor baseline schedules and periodic updates, identify discrepancies and emerging issues, and coordinate schedule review outcomes with internal teams and contractors.
• Develop and maintain progress measurement, forecasting, performance reporting, and schedule management tools.
• Review contractor daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports, ensuring submissions are accurate, appropriately justified, and completed in accordance with the reporting calendar.
• Coordinate with project delivery, commercial, procurement, design, engineering, construction, and other cross-functional teams to obtain, validate, and consolidate project information.
• Prepare and maintain project risk registers, facilitate risk workshops, monitor mitigation actions, and undertake performance analysis.
• Oversee project information and document control processes, including workflow registers, document version control, multi-stakeholder reviews, and the maintenance of accurate historical records within SharePoint.
• Establish and manage project change control processes, ensuring changes are effectively recorded, assessed, tracked, communicated, and integrated into project schedules and reporting.
• Develop and maintain project and asset interface registers, working with relevant stakeholders to monitor dependencies and resolve interface issues.
• Provide advice, reporting, presentations, and project controls insights to senior leadership.
• Lead, coach, and develop the project controls team, promoting accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in project controls.
• Strong leadership capability, with experience setting clear objectives, prioritizing team workloads, developing colleagues, and delivering results against demanding deadlines.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to connect project information, identify emerging issues, and drive timely and practical responses.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to clearly present project performance, risks, strategies, and recommendations to various audiences.
• Previous experience within Saudi Arabia, the wider Middle East, major developments, or complex multi-stakeholder programs is preferred.

Work Environment

The Senior Project Controls Manager will work closely with project leadership, delivery teams, contractors, consultants, and cross-functional stakeholders to monitor performance, identify emerging risks, and support project delivery safely, on time, within budget, and to required quality standards. The position also drives continual improvement of project controls systems, processes, and reporting standards.