Project Controls Director
Role Overview
The Project Controls Director manages the Project Controls Function across project work packages and major contracts.
The role leads cost management, planning and scheduling, change, reporting, risk, and information management.
The role reports to the Head of Project Management or Programme Director.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Project Controls Director manages the Project Controls Function across project work packages and major contracts.
The role leads cost management, planning and scheduling, change, reporting, risk, and information management.
The role reports to the Head of Project Management or Programme Director.
Key responsibilities
- Provide regional technical leadership and support regional pursuits and bids.
- Deliver the regional Project Controls team budget and business performance.
- Lead, engage, develop, and deploy people; grow the team and promote a diverse, inclusive culture.
- Assure service excellence and comply with business systems for contracts, risk, health, safety, wellbeing, delivery, and finance.
- Lead health, safety, and wellbeing activities for the cost centre and oversee contract execution and compliance.
- Build regional market presence, secure bids, and plan resourcing and capability development.
Qualifications and experience
- 15–20 years of project-controls management experience on development or delivery of major construction projects.
- Mining experience is essential.
- Demonstrable success as a Project Controls Director coordinating and managing project-controls teams; experience leading large teams.
- Experience across sectors at major-project and programme level, including setting up project-services functions, processes, and systems.
- Broad experience covering estimating, cost, scheduling, risk, change, performance measurement, and reporting.
- Capability to establish management systems, procedures, and information-management approaches and tools.
- Highly conversant with contract strategy and embedding project controls across the supply chain.
- A degree is preferred; a quantity-surveying or project-management background is likely.
- Client- and contractor-environment experience is an advantage.
Location and travel
- The post is based at the employer's UAE office or at a client-site office.
- Very occasional travel across the region or to project sites is required.
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