Senior Program Controls Specialist Saudi National Only

About the Role

Honeywell International Inc. is seeking a Senior Program Controls Specialist to lead and govern program controls across a portfolio of large, complex projects. This full-time role, open to Saudi Nationals only, provides strategic oversight for successful project delivery and strong financial performance, encompassing cost management, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, performance reporting, change control, and portfolio analytics. The position requires over 10 years of experience.

Role Context and Impact

The Senior Program Controls Specialist acts as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, project directors, finance, commercial, procurement, and delivery teams. This role drives data-informed decision-making, forecasting accuracy, governance compliance, and continuous improvement within the project controls function. The specialist leads cross-functional teams, establishes controls frameworks, and ensures alignment between project execution, business objectives, client requirements, and organizational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of program controls frameworks, methodologies, policies, and governance processes across multiple projects and programs.
• Provide strategic oversight of project budgets, forecasts, schedules, cash flow, earned value performance, and key project performance indicators.
• Direct portfolio-wide cost and schedule forecasting activities, ensuring accuracy, consistency, transparency, and timely reporting to senior leadership.
• Establish, approve, and maintain program and project baselines, ensuring effective measurement of scope, schedule, cost, progress, and performance.
• Lead monthly business reviews and executive reporting, including variance analysis, trend assessment, scenario evaluation, and actionable recommendations.
• Drive the analysis and resolution of critical project risks, schedule delays, cost overruns, productivity challenges, and execution issues.
• Partner with Project Directors, Program Managers, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, and Delivery teams to optimize project outcomes and financial performance.
• Provide executive-level dashboards and strategic insights using Power BI, SAP, Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, and other enterprise project controls systems.
• Lead change management and change control governance, including evaluation of cost, schedule, contractual, risk, and business impacts.
• Oversee project controls personnel and provide direction, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and capability development.
• Ensure project controls processes comply with corporate governance requirements, client obligations, audit expectations, and industry best practices.
• Direct portfolio-level risk management, mitigation planning, contingency management, and escalation of material exposures.
• Support business planning, resource forecasting, capital planning, and long-range portfolio performance analysis.
• Establish standards and best practices that improve forecasting accuracy, reporting quality, data integrity, and operational efficiency.
• Lead audits, compliance reviews, lessons learned, assurance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Act as the primary program controls focal point for executive leadership, customers, auditors, and other key stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in program controls or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and governing program controls across complex projects.
• Proficiency with enterprise project controls systems such as Power BI, SAP, Primavera P6, and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical skills for variance analysis, trend assessment, and scenario evaluation.
• Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams including Project Directors, Program Managers, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, and Delivery teams.

About Honeywell International Inc.

Honeywell Technologies is a global automation company focused on solving mission-critical challenges and enhancing quality of life. The company serves the building, industrial, and process sectors with a portfolio of services, solutions, and products, supported by its Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. Honeywell leverages the expertise of its more than 50,000 employees and decades of data to lead the industrial sector's transition from automation to autonomy.

Career Development

Honeywell offers a culture that fosters inclusion, diversity, and innovation. The company provides market-specific training and ongoing personal development opportunities for its employees.