Project Control Manager

Role Overview

Project Control Manager at KBR in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role reports to the Project Controls Director and is responsible for maintaining, governing, implementing and providing pre and post contract implementation governance for the suite of Project Controls policies, management plans, standards, procedures, and processes in support of reporting requirements and systems.

Company Overview

KBR will provide PMO services, enterprise-level governance, assurance, integration and performance oversight across all projects and programs for a major infrastructure programme—a mixed-use development aiming to be a global landmark recognized for its unique vision and position as an authentic destination in Riyadh. The community will be a distinct, self-sustaining hub for Riyadh offering several iconic assets.

Role Purpose

To establish, maintain, and administer comprehensive project controls governance, reporting frameworks, and performance monitoring across all Project Management Consultants (PMCs) and programs, ensuring consistent data definitions, compliance with standards, and delivery of executive-level intelligence across the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Governance & Compliance

• Maintain, implement, and administer the PMC onboarding process and welcome pack documents and continuously update the PMC onboarding tracker.
• Maintain and implement the Project Controls governance structure, including roles and responsibilities (RACI) across all levels downstream.
• Review the existing structure, propose improvements, and align with required updates and changes.
• Establish and implement Project Controls Compliance Audit Requirements and conduct regular PMC audits to ensure adherence to standards and policies.
• Manage and update the existing Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with updates recorded within the WBS change register.

Training & Stakeholder Management

• Onboard and train the PMCs to facilitate the understanding of the Programme, policies, processes and associated project management information systems and applications.
• Assist with the preparation of training material to provide the required training to PMCs on the use of the implemented systems and population of data and registers.

Governance Documentation

• Maintain, review and update all Reporting Governance Documents, including management plans, manuals, guidelines, and templates.
• Perform regular review and update of the existing governance documents on a quarterly and annual basis.

Planning & Scheduling

• Review and collate the District and Master Plan programmes to produce and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Develop and maintain a structured Work Package Identification framework to ensure that all projects' scope is clearly defined, consistently structured, and effectively aligned with planning, cost, procurement, and delivery.

Reporting & Business Intelligence

• Develop, implement, and administer a comprehensive programme meeting and reporting calendar for assigned District and Master Plan.
• Manage and maintain the PMIS-driven business intelligence (BI) reporting platform, including preparation and creation of new required BI dashboards and data entry registers through approved systems, including SharePoint and Unifier.
• Compile data from PMCs for standardized weekly, monthly, and executive-level dashboards.
• Perform project level performance reporting for schedule, cost, risk, procurement, OHSE, and change management.
• Responsible for ensuring consistent data definitions, KPIs, and red-amber-green (RAG) criteria across all reports.
• Prepare the monthly Programme Status Report that highlights the overall programme, district and individual project's status and progress including each project's status against the approved dates, schedule alerts, and key issues hindering project progress.
• Prepare monthly Programme Level Status Report that highlights the overall programme level, District levels, and individual project's level status and progress.
• Prepare required inputs for preparation of Executive Reports including programme and commercial update information and programme "asks" requirements collated from information from the client.

Performance Monitoring & KPIs

• Maintain, implement, and administer a process for tracking and monitoring the PMC's performance against agreed KPIs and produce a monthly report highlighting each PMC performance with any required corrective actions.
• Update the status of corrective actions during subsequent reporting cycles.
• Maintain issue the "KPI's Report" on a monthly basis with highlight of key areas of concern with corrective measures and mitigation.
• Assess existing monitoring system and propose enhancements and improvements to the overall process.
• Ensure that PMC's reporting schedules are consistent with the PMO preparation of executive reports.

Change Management & Escalation

• Implement processes and systems to monitor the timely completion of Stage Gate Reviews and the reporting across assigned District and Master Plan highlighting issues and risks that may impact the delivery of the programme.
• Produce a "Key Actions Required" report and escalation process to ensure all required actions are presented to executive management for escalation and action plans.

Cost & Value Management

• Develop and implement a Value Engineering Management plan, process, and templates with communication and training provided to PMCs to record savings against the Budget (Total Development Cost).
• Develop and maintain a standardized Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) across all programmes and projects to ensure consistent cost planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting with alignment between CBS, WBS, work packages, procurement strategies, and budgeting requirements.
• Maintain an updated mapping tracker between WBS, CBS, and SAP projects.

Systems & Support

• Provide support to the client for Project Controls Team for related PMIS and Data Warehouse (DWH) requirements.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering, architecture, construction management, planning, management information systems or equivalent.
• Minimum 12 years of post-graduation experience.
• PMI-Project Management Professional, AACE-Certified Cost Professional (CCP) or Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP), MRICS, CIOB, or equivalent prior experience.
• Sound knowledge of controls and reporting aspects of major civil, infrastructure and development projects including urban developments, high-rise buildings, roads, bridges, and utilities.
• Experienced user of MS Office and understanding of project reporting software including Oracle Unifier, P6, and Aconex.
• Fluency in English language both written and spoken.

Skills & Competencies

• Leadership
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Commercial and planning awareness
• Strong customer focus
• Planning and organizing
• Accepts responsibility
• HSE awareness