Senior Project Controls Manager

Role Overview

Senior Project Controls Manager at JASARA PMC. Lead and manage project controls functions across major construction and infrastructure projects, responsible for planning, scheduling, cost management, risk, change management, progress measurement, forecasting, and reporting.

Role Purpose

Establish and maintain robust project controls systems that integrate planning, cost, risk, change, and reporting activities. Work closely with the Project Director, Commercial, Engineering, Construction, and Client teams to provide accurate and timely information supporting project decision-making and ensuring delivery against approved time, cost, and performance objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Scheduling

• Develop, review, and maintain integrated master schedules, baseline programmes, recovery programmes, and detailed execution schedules.
• Monitor project progress against approved baselines and identify schedule slippage, critical path issues, and potential delays.
• Review contractor and consultant schedules and progress reports.
• Support project leadership in developing recovery strategies for delayed or underperforming packages.

Cost Management

• Manage cost control activities, including budgets, commitments, actual costs, forecasts, cash flow, and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Coordinate with Commercial and Contracts teams on variations, claims, change orders, and their impact on cost and schedule.

Risk & Performance Management

• Establish and maintain project risk registers, facilitating quantitative and qualitative risk assessments and monitoring mitigation actions.
• Develop and maintain project earned value, progress measurement, and performance management systems where applicable.
• Coordinate with project teams to establish appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and performance dashboards.

Reporting & Analysis

• Lead the preparation of weekly, monthly, and executive-level project controls reports and dashboards.
• Provide management with accurate analysis of schedule performance, cost performance, trends, risks, and forecast outcomes.
• Ensure consistency and accuracy of progress reporting across multiple contractors, consultants, and project workstreams.
• Identify trends and potential issues early and provide recommendations for corrective and preventive actions.
• Support senior management and the client with strategic project performance analysis and decision-making.

Systems & Governance

• Lead the overall Project Controls function, integrating planning, cost, risk, change, progress measurement, and reporting activities.
• Establish and maintain project controls procedures, systems, processes, and reporting standards in accordance with project and client requirements.
• Review contractor and consultant cost reports and performance submissions.
• Ensure project controls documentation, data, and reporting comply with established governance and quality requirements.

Stakeholder & Team Management

• Ensure effective integration between planning, cost, risk, commercial, procurement, engineering, and construction functions.
• Lead and mentor Project Controls Engineers, Planners, Cost Engineers, and other project controls personnel.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant project controls experience, preferably on major construction, infrastructure, mixed-use, real estate, or giga-projects.
• Minimum 10 years in major building projects with PMC or Tier 1 contractor.
• Strong experience working within a PMC, consultancy, client, or major contractor environment.

Skills & Competencies

• Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6 and strong proficiency in Excel and project reporting tools.
• Experience with Power BI, dashboards, and data visualization is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, scheduling, cost control, risk management, change management, and project reporting.
• Strong understanding of project controls methodologies, baseline management, forecasting, earned value, and performance measurement.
• Excellent understanding of construction contracts, variations, claims, and commercial interfaces.
• Strong analytical, reporting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.