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Role Overview
Senior Project Control Manager at El Seif Engineering Contracting. This is a full-time position reporting to the Project Director on very-high-value mega-projects.
Company Overview
El Seif Engineering Contracting is a construction company with over fifty years of experience across diverse industries, including public infrastructure, military and defense applications. The company is committed to excellence, integrity, and innovation in every phase of work, from planning through expert construction.
Role Purpose
The Senior Project Controls Manager provides expert leadership and strategic management of the integrated Project Controls function. The role is accountable for the integrity and defense of the Performance Measurement Baseline across multiple complex work packages, ensuring project control systems serve as predictive instruments for successful delivery. The SPCM leads strategy for complex Extension of Time claims, provides expert internal and external stakeholder diplomacy, and drives continuous improvement of project-level control standards and risk governance to safeguard the company's financial and contractual position.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
- Establish, lead, and provide strategic direction to a large Project Controls team of Planning, Cost Control, and Risk professionals.
- Ensure the function operates as a proactive advisor to senior project leadership, providing high-impact insights to drive mega-project outcomes.
Project Controls Planning & Governance
- Establish and enforce the Project Controls Plan as the strategic governing framework for the project.
- Ensure all activities, including those of diverse subcontractors, comply with the highest contractual standards and corporate standard operating procedures.
- Champion the use of advanced digital tools across the project controls function.
Scheduling & Baseline Management
- Direct the establishment and maintenance of a resource-loaded Performance Measurement Baseline for the mega-project.
- Ensure all schedule, cost, and resource data are integrated across multiple complex work packages to provide a single source of truth.
- Direct the development and governance of the mega-project's complex scheduling hierarchy, ensuring the long-term critical path is resilient and logically robust.
- Lead the integration of 30/60/90-day look-ahead schedules across multiple disciplines and subcontractors.
- Ensure site productivity data validates remaining durations.
- Oversee expert analysis of float variance to provide early warnings of potential delays.
- Proactively support Change Management and claim assessment processes.
Claims & Time Management
- Lead the project's strategy for complex Extension of Time and prolongation claims.
- Oversee advanced Time Impact Analysis and Critical Path Method modeling to maximize compensable outcomes.
- Mitigate concurrent delay risks.
Risk & Mitigation
- Oversee the project-level risk function to ensure identification and mitigation activities are strictly aligned with the Project Business Plan.
- Ensure mitigation strategies are embedded in the construction sequence to safeguard the Performance Measurement Baseline and business performance.
Financial Reporting & Cost Control
- Direct the production of executive-level cost reports and quarterly Estimate At Completion updates.
- Own the integrity of the Value of Work Done and Cost Work In Progress measurements.
- Ensure actionable insights are provided to senior management for high-stakes financial decision-making.
Strategic Reporting & Stakeholder Management
- Lead the preparation of internal status presentations for the Project Board and Head Office.
- Act as the technical check and balance, defending project data integrity and providing a respected voice even when technical positions challenge operational assumptions.
- Direct the development and submission of the Mega-Project's annual Business Plan and end-of-quarter updates.
- Own the strategic validation of the Estimate At Completion process, ensuring financial forecasts are resilient, risk-adjusted, and strictly aligned with corporate business performance and financial reporting objectives.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
- Overall Project Controls experience: 27–30 years.
- Specific leadership experience: Minimum 15 years as a Project Controls Manager leading integrated teams encompassing Planning, Cost, and Risk.
- Contractor-specific experience: Minimum 12 years working directly for a Main Contractor in an EPC or EPCM environment on high-value infrastructure, buildings, or hospitality projects.
- Large-scale project track record: Proven experience leading project controls on at least two projects with a contract value exceeding SAR 4 billion.
Additional Information
This is a full-time position. Benefits include paid annual leave, public holidays, living allowances, healthcare coverage, and end of service benefits. Discretionary benefits include performance bonus, merit increase, and training and development opportunities if eligible.