Short Description
Ready to grow your career as a Planning & Cost Control Lead? Join a major industrial development project in Jubail and play a key leadership role in managing project controls, planning, scheduling, cost management, forecasting, and project reporting.
Function Description
As a Planning & Cost Control Lead, you will lead the Project Services function and oversee planning, scheduling, cost control, forecasting, risk management, and project reporting activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead project planning, scheduling, and cost control activities.
- Develop and maintain project control systems, procedures, and reporting frameworks.
- Monitor project progress, cost performance, and schedule adherence.
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and management project reports.
- Manage project forecasting, benchmarking, and trend analysis.
- Perform schedule and cost risk analysis and support contingency planning.
- Coordinate with Finance on cash flow, budgeting, and cost reporting activities.
- Manage project change control and management of change processes.
- Review and approve contractor schedules, progress updates, and cost estimates.
- Support project assurance reviews and decision gate requirements.
- Lead project controls interfaces with contractors and project stakeholders.
- Develop recovery plans and corrective actions for schedule and cost deviations.
- Support project closeout reporting and lessons learned activities.
- Provide leadership and guidance to the Project Services team.
- Promote strong HSE leadership and project governance compliance.
Requirements
- * Bachelor's Degree in Engineering is required.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in Planning, Scheduling, Cost Control, or Project Controls.
- Minimum 5 years of experience within the Middle East region, preferably in KSA.
- PMP, APM, or equivalent professional certification is required.
- Advanced Primavera P6 expertise is essential.
- Strong experience in cost estimation, cost control, forecasting, and project reporting.
- Proven experience managing planning activities for major capital or EPC projects.
- Strong knowledge of FEED, Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, and Startup phases.
- Experience in Critical Path Analysis, Trend Analysis, Recovery Planning, and Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA).
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and contractor coordination skills.
- Experience within metal processing, refining, petrochemical, or industrial projects is preferred.
- International project experience is an advantage.
- Immediate availability is preferred.
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