Project Controls Manager
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Project Controls Manager
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Parsons is seeking an experienced Project Controls Manager for a major infrastructure project in Abu Dhabi. The role will lead project controls across the Project Control Consultancy services and support the client in monitoring, assuring, and controlling the initiative through design, procurement, construction, close-out, and handover. The successful candidate will coordinate with the client, supervision consultants, contractors, government agencies, utility authorities, and other stakeholders to support safe, timely, and cost-effective delivery.
What You'll Be Doing
Develop, maintain, and control the integrated master schedule, including design, authority approvals, utility diversions, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, close-out, and handover activities.
Establish and maintain the Work Breakdown Structure and ensure package-level schedules are aligned with the initiative master schedule, approved milestones, and delivery strategy.
Monitor performance against approved baselines, identify trends and variances, forecast completion, and recommend mitigation and recovery actions.
Prepare and coordinate weekly and monthly project controls reports, dashboards, progress presentations, key performance indicators, schedule forecasts, and management information for the client.
Lead risk and opportunity management, maintain the initiative risk register, facilitate risk workshops, track mitigation actions, and support qualitative and quantitative schedule and cost risk analysis.
Support cost planning and control, including cost plans, cash-flow forecasts, commitments, payments, variations, claims, forecast cost to completion, and monthly cost reporting in coordination with the commercial team.
Support the review and assessment of Extension of Time submissions, delay events, time-impact analyses, and other schedule-related claims, maintaining complete contemporaneous records.
Coordinate project controls interfaces across roadworks, bridges, underpasses, traffic management, utilities, design packages, enabling works, and major external interfaces.
Track stakeholder actions, authority approvals, NOCs, utility interfaces, design changes, procurement activities, and long-lead items that may affect project delivery.
Support construction-stage monitoring, including progress validation, site performance reviews, milestone tracking, traffic diversion stages, and corrective action follow-up.
Maintain accurate project controls information through Primavera P6, Power BI, Aconex, PMIS, and other approved systems, supporting a consistent single source of truth.
Lead project controls coordination meetings and workshops, issue clear actions and decisions, and escalate significant schedule, cost, risk, and change matters.
Promote collaborative working, transparency, proactive issue resolution, and continual improvement across the integrated project team.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of relevant project controls experience, including management responsibility on major road, highway, bridge, tunnel, or complex infrastructure programmes.
- Strong experience across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, close-out, and handover stages.
- Demonstrated capability in integrated master scheduling, progress measurement, forecasting, cost control, risk management, change control, and claims support.
- Advanced working knowledge of Primavera P6 and strong capability in Power BI and Microsoft Office. Experience with Aconex and PMIS platforms is preferred.
- Experience reviewing contractor and consultant schedules, recovery plans, EOT submissions, and time-impact analyses.
- Strong understanding of interfaces involving traffic management, utility diversions, authority approvals, stakeholder coordination, and live operational environments.
- What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Excellent leadership, communication, analytical, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience working with government clients and multidisciplinary consultants and contractors in the UAE or wider Middle East is preferred.
- We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!
- Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/ .
COMPETITIVE BENEFIT OFFERINGS
- Financial Wellness
- We care about your financial wellbeing. Parsons offers competitive pay and retirement plans to help you build wealth for the future while giving you the flexibility to diversify your investments.
- Work Life Harmony
- Balance in life is important and time away from the office is imperative to allow you to refresh and focus your attention on the things that matter to you. Parsons supports your time away by providing paid time off and paid flexible holidays.
- Career Development
- We are committed to fostering the personal and professional growth of our employees. Develop and advance yourself though our comprehensive training, educational and mentorship programs.
- Veteran Support
- We provide Industry leading benefits to support veterans and active-duty members to provide security for you and your family by offering robust leave and benefits; including paid active-duty military leave and paid time off when transitioning back to civilian life.
- Mind & Body
- At Parsons we inspire healthier habits, heathier minds, and a healthier you through our wellness program. Participate in our weekly Meditation Mondays and Wellness Wednesdays. Wellness, at Parsons, is more than just your annual checkup.
- Health
- Health is not a one size fits all. At Parsons, we offer a robust Employee Assistance Program as well as comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans through large, national carriers with the choice of regional PPO, HDHP, or HMO networks.
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Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of relevant project controls experience, including management responsibility on major road, highway, bridge, tunnel, or complex infrastructure programmes.
- Strong experience across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, close-out, and handover stages.
- Demonstrated capability in integrated master scheduling, progress measurement, forecasting, cost control, risk management, change control, and claims support.
- Advanced working knowledge of Primavera P6 and strong capability in Power BI and Microsoft Office. Experience with Aconex and PMIS platforms is preferred.
- Experience reviewing contractor and consultant schedules, recovery plans, EOT submissions, and time-impact analyses.
- Strong understanding of interfaces involving traffic management, utility diversions, authority approvals, stakeholder coordination, and live operational environments.
- What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Excellent leadership, communication, analytical, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience working with government clients and multidisciplinary consultants and contractors in the UAE or wider Middle East is preferred.
- We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!
- Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/ .
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