Talent Pool - Project Controls Manager (Buildings - Villas/Mixed-Use Development/Theme Parks) - Middle East Projects
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Talent Pool – Project Controls Manager supporting delivery of buildings, villas, mixed-use developments, and theme park projects across the Middle East, ensuring integrated control of cost, schedule, and performance in line with contractual requirements.
Leads project controls functions including planning, cost management, progress monitoring, forecasting, and risk analysis in coordination with project teams and stakeholders.
Provides reporting and strategic insights to support decision-making, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently within approved time, cost, and quality objectives.
Responsibilities
- Developing and implementing standards and customized systems for all project control operations.
- Leading and supervising planning and scheduling sections, cost estimators, cost accountants, financial analysts, and quantity surveyors.
- In charge of overseeing and monitoring project documents.
- In charge of overseeing project risk management, which includes creating risk registers and putting mitigation plans in place.
- Extensive project management expertise, preferably with big and complicated projects. This should include a track record of fully accepting accountability for overseeing project budgets and timelines.
- Proven knowledge in cost engineering, business management, cost estimating, standards, control, analysis, planning, and scheduling. This involves prior expertise developing, managing, and evaluating schedules.
- A practical grasp of modern company operations, engineering contracts, and contracts for procurement and construction.
- Informs themselves of the relevant Quality, Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Policies, Manuals and Procedures within Hill International and ensures continued compliance with these requirements while employed by Hill.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager/supervisor
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in engineering from an accredited university.
- Preferably 15+ years experience in project controls (cost and schedule) include overall responsibility for project controls on large-scale projects.
- Preferably a chartered member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
- Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience of directing large project and team for control management including cost engineering, cost estimating, control, and analysis, planning and scheduling, schedule development, control, and analysis.
- Experience and demonstrated skill in establishing criteria and system set-up for all project controls activities.
- Working knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and start-up / set up work processes.
- Involvement in continuous improvement and capacity building / talent development.
- Demonstrated skill in management, supervisory and personnel administrative functions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience of working internationally (preference GCC experience).
About Us
Hill International, with more than 4,300+ professionals in over 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, project management oversight, advisory, facilities management, and other consulting services to clients in a variety of market sectors.
Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as one of the largest program management firms in the world.
For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com .
Hill is exclusively a program, project, and construction management provider, meaning we have one focus as a company: protecting client interests.
Free of any potential conflicts, our entire business is geared towards helping clients achieve their desired outcomes.
We are dedicated to exceeding expectations throughout the entire construction project lifecycle and adapt to the needs of each assignment to develop tailored approaches and solutions to meet those needs.
Hill is a GISI Consulting Group company, part of the Global Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. (GISI) family of companies.
Learn more about GISI Consulting Group at www.gisiconsulting.com .
Hill International is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled
Note
*This job description is intended to provide an indication of the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities and other essential functions to be carried out as part of fulfilling the role mentioned in the job title.
Various other duties as required.*
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