Project Controls Director

Location

الرياض, S01, SA.

Full-time on site.

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Project Controls Director to join our team! The Project Controls Director will lead all aspects of cost, schedule, risk, and change management across a complex development program. This role requires extensive experience, strong leadership capabilities, and deep technical knowledge of project controls best practices. The Director will ensure robust governance, accurate forecasting, transparent reporting, and high-performance execution to support successful project delivery while maintaining schedule certainty and financial control.

• Establish, manage, and enforce the overall project controls strategy, systems, procedures, and reporting frameworks across the program.
• Develop project control plans, governance models, and performance measurement systems aligned with client and program objectives.
• Ensure integration of cost, schedule, risk, and change management across all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Implement best practices, policies, and standards for project controls across all project packages and delivery teams.
• Oversee the preparation, review, and approval of the integrated master schedule, ensuring alignment across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover activities.
• Monitor schedule progress and performance, identifying delays, potential impacts and mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate contractor schedules to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and project milestones.
• Implement advanced scheduling methodologies such as critical path analysis, schedule risk assessment and resource-loaded scheduling.
• Provide schedule forecasts and recovery strategies to support proactive project management.
• Direct all cost engineering functions including cost estimating, cost control, cash flow forecasting and budget monitoring.
• Establish project cost baselines and ensure accurate tracking of expenditures against approved budgets.
• Lead monthly cost reporting, forecasting and variance analysis to ensure financial transparency and control.
• Analyze cost trends and recommend corrective actions to maintain financial performance.
• Ensure alignment with performance measurement frameworks such as Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Lead the development and implementation of comprehensive project risk management frameworks.
• Facilitate risk identification workshops, qualitative and quantitative risk assessments and mitigation planning.
• Oversee schedule and cost risk modelling to support decision-making and contingency allocation.
• Monitor risk exposure, mitigation effectiveness and escalation of critical risks to senior leadership.
• Maintain an active risk register and ensure proactive management of project uncertainties.
• Direct the management of project changes and variations to ensure proper evaluation, documentation and integration into project baselines.
• Establish and maintain structured change control processes and governance.
• Facilitate Change Control Board (CCB) meetings and ensure transparent decision-making.
• Collaborate with commercial and contract teams in evaluating claims, entitlement assessments and negotiation strategies.
• Ensure accurate tracking of project trends, early warning notices and potential claims exposure.
• Oversee preparation of executive-level reports, dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Ensure consistent, transparent and timely reporting of project performance, risks and opportunities.
• Present complex project performance data in clear and actionable formats for executive leadership and stakeholders.
• Provide strategic insights to support informed decision-making at program level.
• Lead the evaluation, implementation and optimisation…