Project Control Manager

Job Description

Role: In charge of ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget. By implementing robust control processes and fostering cross-functional collaboration, you will play a crucial role in driving efficiency, mitigating risks, and achieving outstanding outcomes.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as the focal point with the client and any contractor, Project Controllers as appropriate, to ensure costs and progress are reported accurately, ensure alignment with the project reporting requirements, and ensure timely and accurate cost and progress reporting.
• Monitor overall project/assignment progress status, achievement, and non-achievement of major milestones, and analyze and forecast performance in relation to the plan.
• Identification, monitoring, and reporting against the project critical path, providing early warning to the Project Manager of any potential slippages.
• Identifies and establishes the communications interfaces essential for the delivery of cost, planning, scheduling, and risk deliverables and services.
• Report project status and KPI to management.
• Develops the project Work Breakdown Structure.
• Manage the implementation of the cost and planning control structures in alignment with the project Work Breakdown Structure.
• Manage and oversee the project work approval process in terms of accurate cost code allocation and initial budget set-up and approvals.
• Timely control and forecasting of budgets and ensure that the impact of all change requests is properly assessed and included in the budget and schedules if applicable.
• Accountable for the accuracy and timeliness of S-curves and histograms produced by the team.
• Accountable for delivery and ongoing maintenance of the projects, fully resourced, logic-linked Gantt Charts within preferred planning software to the agreed project and programme requirements.
• Accountable for providing analysis of current and future resource needs for the project and programme to the Project Manager.
• Manages and oversees the recovery process following identified slippages or significant float erosion. Responsible for the timely and accurate development and issuing of project change orders/variations in accordance with contract/assignment change notifications.
• Promote the project change management system and facilitate assurance activities to ensure the process is adhered to.
• Serve as Chair for ongoing internal team and client team Project Controls meetings (Cost, Schedule, and Progress).
• Oversee the preparation of Execution schedules and CTR packs.
• Lead cost and schedule risk analysis workshops/sessions, both internally and with the client.
• Ensure risk is managed and monitored at the project level in line with local standards and processes.
• Ensure Project Controls processes and procedures are accurate, that the project controls team is familiar with them, and that they comply with their requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring that projects are managed effectively to ensure delivery in a manner that meets quality, time, and budget specifications.
• Accountable for the accuracy and completeness of all cost, planning, and risk deliverables before issue to internal or external customers.
• Responsible for ensuring all project-specific control tools and systems are set up and functioning adequately.
• Manage the workload, performance, and development of the project controls team. Provides constructive feedback and coaching.
• Reviews contractual obligations and ensures that cost control activities are performed in accordance with the contractual agreements and the clients requirements.
• Incorporate sub-contractor performance impact into overall project reporting.
• Ensuring that lessons learned are captured and implemented in support of continuous improvement.
• Motivates project control team to meet project aims; promotes communication and teamwork within the group and project.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant technical or business discipline.
• Member of a recognized professional institute preferred.

Knowledge skills, and experience:

• Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of relevant industry experience in project control positions, including significant experience supervising and managing others.
• Significant experience and capability in the management of contracts, budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and management of change.
• Knowledgeable across engineering, procurement, and construction execution.
• Understands the use and applications of the Project Controls department tools and systems.
• ADNOC experience preferred, GCC experience.
• EPC experience is a must.
• Both Operating Company and Service Contracting Company experience preferred.