Senior Program Controls Engineer - Reporting
Posted date [2026-07-06]
(ID: 47550)
Job Description and Requirements
Senior Program Controls Engineer - ReportingJob Snapshot
Role: Senior Program Controls Engineer - Reporting
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Project Management
Experience: 10 years program controls and reporting experience
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Senior Program Controls Engineer - Reporting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Civil Engineering opportunity with Parsons Corporation for an experienced program controls professional who can lead PMO reporting, progress analytics, dashboard development, and executive-level reporting across a major roads programme. The role supports senior PMO leadership by converting complex schedule, progress, cost, and change data into accurate, concise, decision-ready reports that align with governance standards and the Integrated Master Schedule.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Project Management
Salary: 35000-52000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job
Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Senior Program Controls Engineer will support programme-level reporting and analytics for a roads PMO environment where accurate data, clear narratives, fast turnaround, and strong governance are essential. This position works closely with the PMO PRC Senior Reporting Manager, Program Controls Director, PMCM teams, planning managers, cost managers, progress teams, and senior PMO stakeholders to consolidate information, verify consistency, improve dashboards, and prepare reports that help leadership understand programme performance and make informed decisions.
Key Responsibilities
* Work closely with the PMO PRC Senior Reporting Manager to support programme reporting, analytics, and performance communication.
* Lead preparation, coordination, and continuous improvement of the PMO Weekly Progress Report.
* Develop new reporting products, dashboards, summaries, and analytical tools from scratch when required by the client or PMO leadership.
* Ensure all reports are concise, accurate, internally consistent, and aligned with the department governance framework.
* Consolidate inputs from PMCMs and PMO managers across planning, progress, cost, change, risk, and project controls workstreams.
* Verify reported data before inclusion in PMO-issued reports, ensuring alignment with the Integrated Master Schedule.
* Protect the integrity of PMO reporting under tight deadlines, changing priorities, and ad-hoc reporting demands.
* Translate raw technical data into clear reporting content suitable for senior client and PMO management review.
* Manage PMCM reporting interfaces to ensure inputs are timely, complete, usable, and aligned with reporting expectations.
* Coordinate with PMO discipline managers to clarify assumptions, validate data, and strengthen reporting narratives.
* Challenge unclear, inconsistent, incomplete, or low-quality reporting inputs in line with governance requirements.
* Respond quickly to ad-hoc client and PMO reporting requests while maintaining accuracy and presentation quality.
* Produce short-notice executive summaries, dashboard updates, briefing packs, and performance analysis under pressure.
* Review reporting outputs from the reader’s perspective, ensuring that key messages, risks, trends, and decisions are easy to understand.
* Present reports, dashboards, insights, and analysis to senior client representatives and PMO management when required.
* Support reporting improvements by identifying gaps in data flow, dashboard logic, templates, charts, and reporting processes.
* Use Primavera P6, Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint to prepare high-quality programme reporting outputs.
* Maintain consistent reporting formats, data structures, version control, and supporting evidence for issued reports.
* Support continuous improvement in reporting governance, automation, data visualization, and executive communication.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
* Minimum 10 years of experience in project controls, planning, programme reporting, or PMO performance reporting.
* Background as a planner, senior planner, project controls engineer, or programme controls professional at project or programme level.
* Demonstrated experience producing senior-level PMO, PMC, PMCM, or programme management reports.
* Strong understanding of roads, infrastructure, construction, planning, progress tracking, schedule analysis, cost reporting, and change reporting.
* Expert-level capability in Primavera P6, Microsoft Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint.
* Strong ability to consolidate complex planning, progress, cost, and change data into executive-ready reporting outputs.
* Exceptional attention to detail with strong focus on internal consistency, data integrity, and report quality.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical information clearly to senior stakeholders.
* Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven PMO environment with frequent ad-hoc reporting requests.
* Confident coordinating with PMCMs, discipline managers, programme controls teams, and senior PMO stakeholders.
* Able to identify inconsistencies, challenge weak inputs, clarify assumptions, and improve reporting accuracy.
* Strong analytical thinking with the ability to interpret programme data, identify trends, and prepare concise performance narratives.
* Able to prepare presentations, dashboards, executive summaries, and client-facing reports with a high standard of clarity.
* Organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple reporting cycles and urgent deliverables under pressure.
Skills Set
* Program controls
* PMO reporting
* Reporting analytics
* Roads programme reporting
* Project controls
* Planning support
* Progress reporting
* Schedule reporting
* Cost reporting
* Change reporting
* Weekly progress reports
* Executive summaries
* PMO dashboards
* Performance dashboards
* Data consolidation
* Data validation
* Reporting governance
* Integrated Master Schedule
* Primavera P6
* Microsoft Power BI
* Microsoft Excel
* Microsoft PowerPoint
* PMCM coordination
* Client reporting
* Senior management reporting
* Programme performance analysis
* Dashboard development
* Report automation
* Data visualization
* Reporting narratives
* Technical data translation
* Internal consistency checks
* Ad-hoc reporting
* KPI reporting
* Schedule analysis
* Progress analysis
* Cost analysis
* Change analysis
* Presentation preparation
* Stakeholder communication
* Deadline management
Why Join Us
This role offers a Senior Program Controls Engineer the opportunity to support a major roads programme in Riyadh through high-quality PMO reporting, analytics, dashboard development, and executive-level performance communication. The position provides strong exposure to programme controls, senior client reporting, PMCM coordination, Primavera P6, Power BI, Integrated Master Schedule alignment, and decision-ready reporting. It is a strong opportunity for a detail-focused controls professional who wants to improve reporting quality, strengthen programme visibility, and support major infrastructure delivery in Saudi Arabia.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, infrastructure, construction management, and project delivery company supporting major transportation, aviation, utilities, urban development, public realm, and civil infrastructure programmes. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons contributes to large-scale development through programme controls, project management, technical coordination, reporting analytics, construction supervision, and practical delivery knowledge that help create reliable and future-ready infrastructure.
Role Context
The Senior Program Controls Engineer will support programme-level reporting and analytics for a roads PMO environment where accurate data, clear narratives, fast turnaround, and strong governance are essential. This position works closely with the PMO PRC Senior Reporting Manager, Program Controls Director, PMCM teams, planning managers, cost managers, progress teams, and senior PMO stakeholders to consolidate information, verify consistency, improve dashboards, and prepare reports that help leadership understand programme performance and make informed decisions.
Key Responsibilities
* Work closely with the PMO PRC Senior Reporting Manager to support programme reporting, analytics, and performance communication.
* Lead preparation, coordination, and continuous improvement of the PMO Weekly Progress Report.
* Develop new reporting products, dashboards, summaries, and analytical tools from scratch when required by the client or PMO leadership.
* Ensure all reports are concise, accurate, internally consistent, and aligned with the department governance framework.
* Consolidate inputs from PMCMs and PMO managers across planning, progress, cost, change, risk, and project controls workstreams.
* Verify reported data before inclusion in PMO-issued reports, ensuring alignment with the Integrated Master Schedule.
* Protect the integrity of PMO reporting under tight deadlines, changing priorities, and ad-hoc reporting demands.
* Translate raw technical data into clear reporting content suitable for senior client and PMO management review.
* Manage PMCM reporting interfaces to ensure inputs are timely, complete, usable, and aligned with reporting expectations.
* Coordinate with PMO discipline managers to clarify assumptions, validate data, and strengthen reporting narratives.
* Challenge unclear, inconsistent, incomplete, or low-quality reporting inputs in line with governance requirements.
* Respond quickly to ad-hoc client and PMO reporting requests while maintaining accuracy and presentation quality.
* Produce short-notice executive summaries, dashboard updates, briefing packs, and performance analysis under pressure.
* Review reporting outputs from the reader’s perspective, ensuring that key messages, risks, trends, and decisions are easy to understand.
* Present reports, dashboards, insights, and analysis to senior client representatives and PMO management when required.
* Support reporting improvements by identifying gaps in data flow, dashboard logic, templates, charts, and reporting processes.
* Use Primavera P6, Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint to prepare high-quality programme reporting outputs.
* Maintain consistent reporting formats, data structures, version control, and supporting evidence for issued reports.
* Support continuous improvement in reporting governance, automation, data visualization, and executive communication.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
* Minimum 10 years of experience in project controls, planning, programme reporting, or PMO performance reporting.
* Background as a planner, senior planner, project controls engineer, or programme controls professional at project or programme level.
* Demonstrated experience producing senior-level PMO, PMC, PMCM, or programme management reports.
* Strong understanding of roads, infrastructure, construction, planning, progress tracking, schedule analysis, cost reporting, and change reporting.
* Expert-level capability in Primavera P6, Microsoft Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint.
* Strong ability to consolidate complex planning, progress, cost, and change data into executive-ready reporting outputs.
* Exceptional attention to detail with strong focus on internal consistency, data integrity, and report quality.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical information clearly to senior stakeholders.
* Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven PMO environment with frequent ad-hoc reporting requests.
* Confident coordinating with PMCMs, discipline managers, programme controls teams, and senior PMO stakeholders.
* Able to identify inconsistencies, challenge weak inputs, clarify assumptions, and improve reporting accuracy.
* Strong analytical thinking with the ability to interpret programme data, identify trends, and prepare concise performance narratives.
* Able to prepare presentations, dashboards, executive summaries, and client-facing reports with a high standard of clarity.
* Organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple reporting cycles and urgent deliverables under pressure.
Skills Set
* Program controls
* PMO reporting
* Reporting analytics
* Roads programme reporting
* Project controls
* Planning support
* Progress reporting
* Schedule reporting
* Cost reporting
* Change reporting
* Weekly progress reports
* Executive summaries
* PMO dashboards
* Performance dashboards
* Data consolidation
* Data validation
* Reporting governance
* Integrated Master Schedule
* Primavera P6
* Microsoft Power BI
* Microsoft Excel
* Microsoft PowerPoint
* PMCM coordination
* Client reporting
* Senior management reporting
* Programme performance analysis
* Dashboard development
* Report automation
* Data visualization
* Reporting narratives
* Technical data translation
* Internal consistency checks
* Ad-hoc reporting
* KPI reporting
* Schedule analysis
* Progress analysis
* Cost analysis
* Change analysis
* Presentation preparation
* Stakeholder communication
* Deadline management
Why Join Us
This role offers a Senior Program Controls Engineer the opportunity to support a major roads programme in Riyadh through high-quality PMO reporting, analytics, dashboard development, and executive-level performance communication. The position provides strong exposure to programme controls, senior client reporting, PMCM coordination, Primavera P6, Power BI, Integrated Master Schedule alignment, and decision-ready reporting. It is a strong opportunity for a detail-focused controls professional who wants to improve reporting quality, strengthen programme visibility, and support major infrastructure delivery in Saudi Arabia.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, infrastructure, construction management, and project delivery company supporting major transportation, aviation, utilities, urban development, public realm, and civil infrastructure programmes. In Saudi Arabia, Parsons contributes to large-scale development through programme controls, project management, technical coordination, reporting analytics, construction supervision, and practical delivery knowledge that help create reliable and future-ready infrastructure.
