Senior Project Controls Manager - Utilities

Senior Project Controls Manager – Utilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior utilities opportunity with Parsons Corporation for an experienced project controls leader who can establish and manage planning, scheduling, cost control, risk, change, and reporting functions across utility compound programmes. The role supports substations, utility hubs, associated infrastructure, multi‑contract delivery, schedule assurance, cost forecasting, earned value analysis, governance, and transparent reporting for complex utility developments.

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Industry: Utilities | Function:
Project Management |

Experience:

15 years project controls experience | Salary: 45,000‑65,000 (estimated)

• Lead the project controls strategy and implementation for utility compound programmes and associated infrastructure works.
• Develop and maintain integrated project controls plans covering planning, scheduling, cost control, risk management, change control, reporting, and governance.
• Provide expert guidance to project managers, engineers, commercial teams, planners, cost engineers, and contractors on project controls best practices.
• Ensure project controls procedures are standardized and consistently applied across all contracts, packages, phases, and work streams.
• Establish, review, and approve baseline schedules in coordination with planning engineers, project managers, delivery leads, and contractor teams.
• Integrate multiple contractor schedules and internal schedules into a single programme‑level master schedule.
• Monitor schedule performance, analyze critical paths, float movement, interface risks, and dependencies between utility compounds and wider network works.
• Lead schedule risk analysis, delay scenario reviews, recovery planning, and mitigation assessments for potential programme impacts.
• Review contractor recovery plans and assess whether proposed actions are realistic, resourced, and aligned with project priorities.
• Develop and manage project budgets, cash flow forecasts, cost control frameworks, commitment tracking, and cost reporting processes.
• Oversee monthly cost tracking, cost‑value reconciliations, earned value reviews, estimate‑at‑completion updates, and forecast final cost reviews.
• Identify cost variances, trends, potential overruns, savings opportunities, and optimization measures for management action.
• Set up and manage formal change control processes, ensuring impact assessments cover scope, time, cost, risk, quality, and contractual consequences.
• Chair or support change control boards and ensure changes are properly reviewed, approved, documented, and reflected in schedules and forecasts.
• Establish and maintain project risk registers, facilitating risk identification, qualitative assessment, quantitative assessment, mitigation planning, and contingency reviews.
• Coordinate schedule and cost risk analyses and integrate risk outputs into forecasts, executive dashboards, and management reports.
• Implement earned value management or equivalent performance measurement techniques across major work packages.
• Define, monitor, and report KPIs for schedule adherence, cost performance, productivity, change control, risk response, and reporting accuracy.
• Produce clear monthly and ad‑hoc project controls reports for senior management, clients, consultants, contractors, and key stakeholders.
• Provide early warning on emerging schedule, cost, risk, change, productivity, and interface issues with practical mitigation recommendations.
• Oversee the configuration and use of PrimaveraP6, MSProject, cost management systems, reporting tools, and project controls platforms.
• Ensure data integrity, version control, coding structures, baseline control, and alignment between planning, cost, risk, change, and reporting systems.
• Develop project controls templates, reporting standards, procedures, dashboards, and management routines tailored to utility compound delivery.
• Support internal and external audits by maintaining complete records and demonstrating compliance with company governance and client requirements.
• Act as the primary project controls contact for clients, consultants, contractors, project…