Senior Program Controls Engineer - Reporting

Senior Program Controls Engineer – Reporting

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Civil Engineering

Function:
Project Management

Experience

Required:

10 years program controls and reporting experience

Job Type: Full‑time

Salary: 35,000 – 52,000

Senior Program Controls Engineer – Reporting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Civil Engineering opportunity with Parsons Corporation for an experienced program controls professional who can lead PMO reporting, progress analytics, dashboard development, and executive‑level reporting across a major roads programme. The role supports senior PMO leadership by converting complex schedule, progress, cost, and change data into accurate, concise, decision‑ready reports that align with governance standards and the Integrated Master Schedule.

• Work closely with the PMO PRC Senior Reporting Manager to support programme reporting, analytics, and performance communication.
• Lead preparation, coordination, and continuous improvement of the PMO Weekly Progress Report.
• Develop new reporting products, dashboards, summaries, and analytical tools from scratch when required by the client or PMO leadership.
• Ensure all reports are concise, accurate, internally consistent, and aligned with the department governance framework.
• Consolidate inputs from PMCMs and PMO managers across planning, progress, cost, change, risk, and project controls work streams.
• Verify reported data before inclusion in PMO‑issued reports, ensuring alignment with the Integrated Master Schedule.
• Protect the integrity of PMO reporting under tight deadlines, changing priorities, and ad‑hoc reporting demands.
• Translate raw technical data into clear reporting content suitable for senior client and PMO management review.
• Manage PMCM reporting interfaces to ensure inputs are timely, complete, usable, and aligned with reporting expectations.
• Coordinate with PMO discipline managers to clarify assumptions, validate data, and strengthen reporting narratives.
• Challenge unclear, inconsistent, incomplete, or low‑quality reporting inputs in line with governance requirements.
• Respond quickly to ad‑hoc client and PMO reporting requests while maintaining accuracy and presentation quality.
• Produce short‑notice executive summaries, dashboard updates, briefing packs, and performance analysis under pressure.
• Review reporting outputs from the reader's perspective, ensuring that key messages, risks, trends, and decisions are easy to understand.
• Present reports, dashboards, insights, and analysis to senior client representatives and PMO management when required.
• Support reporting improvements by identifying gaps in data flow, dashboard logic, templates, charts, and reporting processes.
• Use Primavera P6, Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint to prepare high‑quality programme reporting outputs.
• Maintain consistent reporting formats, data structures, version control, and supporting evidence for issued reports.
• Support continuous improvement in reporting governance, automation, data visualization, and executive communication.

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in project controls, planning, programme reporting, or PMO performance reporting.
• Background as a planner, senior planner, project controls engineer, or programme controls professional at project or programme level.
• Demonstrated experience producing senior‑level PMO, PMC, PMCM, or programme management reports.
• Strong understanding of roads, infrastructure, construction, planning, progress tracking, schedule analysis, cost reporting, and change reporting.
• Expert‑level capability in Primavera P6, Microsoft Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong ability to consolidate complex planning, progress, cost, and change data into executive‑ready reporting outputs.
• Exceptional attention to detail with strong focus on internal consistency, data integrity, and report quality.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical information clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven PMO environment with frequent ad‑hoc reporting requests.
• Confident coordinating…