Senior Project Controls Manager

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At Jacobs, we push the limits of what’s possible to make the world smarter and more connected. We are a key delivery partner on one of Saudi Arabia’s flagship giga projects and a central pillar of Vision 2030, located approximately 45 km southwest of Riyadh. Designed as the Kingdom’s future capital of entertainment, sports, and culture, this landmark development aims to diversify the economy and enhance quality of life through a mix of world-class attractions, residential communities, and natural landscapes, while generating significant employment and enabling long-term, sustainable growth.

About the Opportunity:

The Senior Manager – Project Controls will lead and coordinate the project controls function across a major programme of works, ensuring the effective integration of schedule management, reporting, risk, information management, change control, and interface management throughout the project lifecycle.

Providing leadership and technical guidance to the project controls team, the role will ensure that project information is accurate, consistent, and transparent, enabling informed decision-making and effective project delivery. The Senior Manager – Project Controls will work closely with project leadership, delivery teams, contractors, consultants, and cross-functional stakeholders to monitor performance, identify emerging risks, and support the delivery of projects safely, on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

The position will also drive the continual improvement of project controls systems, processes, and reporting standards while coaching and developing team members and promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing across the programme.

Role 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 programme 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 to provide clear visibility of project status and delivery performance.
• 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 to proactively identify delivery risks and opportunities.
• 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…