Senior Project Controls Manager

About the opportunity

Role responsibilities

• Lead the project controls function and maintain internal schedules aligned with governance, contractual obligations, and reporting standards.
• Review contractor schedules and progress reports; identify discrepancies, emerging issues, and reporting concerns.
• Develop progress measurement, forecasting, performance reporting, and schedule management tools.
• Coordinate project information with delivery, commercial, procurement, design, engineering, construction, and other teams.
• Maintain risk registers, facilitate workshops, monitor mitigation, and identify delivery risks and opportunities.
• Oversee document control, version management, workflow registers, reviews, and SharePoint historical records.
• Manage change control and project and asset interface registers, including dependencies and issue resolution.
• Advise senior leadership through project controls reporting, presentations, and analysis; lead and develop the controls team.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree or postgraduate qualification in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Business Management, or a related discipline.
• Extensive project controls, planning, and scheduling experience in construction or infrastructure delivery; contractor and consultancy experience is ideal.
• Hands-on complex project experience and sound technical, contractual, and commercial knowledge.
• Advanced Primavera P6 knowledge and proficiency with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Experience managing schedules, performance reports, risk and interface registers, change control, and project information systems.
• Leadership, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; strong written and verbal English is required.
• PMP or PRINCE2 is preferred; Primavera certification is advantageous.
• Saudi Arabia, Middle East, major development, or complex multi-stakeholder programme experience is preferred.

Workplace

• The posting identifies the office setup as Office/Onsite.
• Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the role.