Senior Project Controls Manager - Utilities
Posted date [2026-07-08]
(ID: 47611)
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Job Description and Requirements
Senior Project Controls Manager - UtilitiesJob Snapshot
Role: Senior Project Controls Manager - Utilities
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Utilities
Function: Project-Program Management
Experience: 10+ years in project controls with 5+ years in leadership roles
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Senior Project Controls Manager - Utilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Utilities hiring opportunity for an experienced project controls leader who can manage planning, scheduling, cost control, forecasting, risk management, change control, governance reporting, and data integrity across complex utility capital programs. This role supports electric, gas, water, wastewater, transmission and distribution, and regulated infrastructure projects by ensuring project controls processes are disciplined, transparent, and aligned with safety, regulatory, schedule, and budget requirements.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Utilities
Function: Project-Program Management
Salary: 42000-62000
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 Project Controls Manager - Utilities will provide strategic oversight across a portfolio of large, multi-year utility projects where schedule certainty, cost visibility, regulatory compliance, risk control, and reliable reporting are essential to capital program success. The position partners with project leadership, finance, procurement, engineering, construction, operations, environmental, regulatory, and corporate reporting teams to improve decision-making, maintain accurate project data, and support delivery of utility infrastructure within approved time, cost, and governance parameters.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the development and implementation of project controls strategies, standards, procedures, and governance methods for utility capital projects and programs.
* Manage, mentor, and develop planners, schedulers, cost engineers, reporting analysts, and project controls professionals.
* Serve as a senior advisor to project and program leadership on schedule performance, cost trends, risks, forecast accuracy, and delivery concerns.
* Drive continuous improvement in project controls systems, reporting processes, analytics, and governance practices aligned with recognized industry standards.
* Oversee development, integration, and maintenance of detailed project and program schedules.
* Ensure schedules reflect realistic work sequencing, resource constraints, outage windows, permitting activities, environmental requirements, regulatory approvals, and utility construction constraints.
* Monitor schedule performance and conduct schedule health checks to identify logic issues, slippage, float concerns, and critical path exposure.
* Develop recovery plans, acceleration strategies, and scenario analysis for major projects and portfolio-level delivery risks.
* Conduct schedule risk analysis and what-if planning to support leadership decisions on phasing, sequencing, resource allocation, and program priorities.
* Lead the establishment of project baselines, including budgets, cash flows, cost breakdown structures, contingency planning, and reporting controls.
* Oversee cost tracking, forecasting, earned value management, variance analysis, and root-cause reviews.
* Ensure accurate monthly cost reporting covering commitments, actual costs, contingencies, forecast at completion, and budget movements.
* Coordinate with finance, procurement, project management, and commercial teams to reconcile project financials and align with corporate reporting requirements.
* Implement and maintain risk management processes, including risk registers, qualitative assessments, quantitative assessments, mitigation plans, and ownership tracking.
* Oversee project change management by reviewing change requests, assessing cost and schedule impacts, supporting approval processes, and ensuring proper documentation.
* Manage contingency development and utilization with clear governance, transparency, and accountability around drawdowns.
* Develop standardized dashboards, reports, portfolio summaries, and executive reporting packs for leadership, sponsors, and regulatory stakeholders.
* Present schedule, cost, risk, change, and performance updates at governance forums, steering committees, and portfolio review meetings.
* Ensure compliance with internal governance frameworks, regulatory requirements, audit standards, and reporting expectations.
* Collaborate with engineering, construction, operations, environmental, regulatory, procurement, real estate, finance, and field teams to integrate project controls data.
* Act as a liaison between field project teams and corporate functions to resolve project controls issues and align delivery priorities.
* Support external reporting and regulatory filings where required, including capital plans, program updates, public agency reporting, and rate case support.
* Own and optimize project controls systems and tools, including scheduling platforms, cost management systems, business intelligence tools, and reporting databases.
* Ensure project controls data is accurate, consistent, complete, traceable, and reliable across all functions and reporting cycles.
* Champion digitalization initiatives, automation of reporting, data analytics, dashboard development, and integration of field data into project controls workflows.
* Track key performance indicators including schedule adherence, forecast accuracy, reporting quality, risk mitigation effectiveness, stakeholder satisfaction, and team development.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, Business, Project Management, or a related field.
* Master’s degree in a related discipline is preferred.
* Minimum 10 years of progressive project controls experience, including at least 5 years in a project controls leadership role.
* Significant experience in the utilities sector, including electric transmission and distribution, gas infrastructure, water, wastewater, generation, or similar regulated infrastructure.
* Proven track record managing project controls for large, complex, multi-year capital programs or portfolios.
* Deep knowledge of planning, scheduling, cost control, earned value management, risk management, change management, and governance reporting.
* Strong understanding of utility project lifecycles, including permitting, right-of-way, outage coordination, construction constraints, environmental requirements, and regulatory oversight.
* Proficiency in scheduling software, cost management tools, business intelligence tools, and project controls reporting systems.
* Experience with PowerBI, Tableau, or similar analytics tools is highly desirable.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving ability with confidence interpreting complex project data and converting it into clear leadership insights.
* Excellent communication and presentation skills for senior executives, project sponsors, regulators, field teams, and non-technical stakeholders.
* Strong people management, coaching, and team development capability.
* Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment while managing multiple priorities across a portfolio of projects.
* Familiarity with AACE, PMI, earned value, schedule risk, cost forecasting, project controls governance, and capital program reporting practices is valuable.
Skills Set
* Project controls management
* Utilities project controls
* Capital program controls
* Planning and scheduling
* Cost control
* Cost forecasting
* Earned value management
* Schedule management
* Schedule health checks
* Schedule risk analysis
* Critical path analysis
* Program scheduling
* Portfolio controls
* Project baselines
* Budget management
* Cash flow management
* Cost breakdown structures
* Variance analysis
* Forecast at completion
* Commitments tracking
* Actual cost reporting
* Risk management
* Risk registers
* Qualitative risk assessment
* Quantitative risk assessment
* Change control
* Time impact assessment
* Contingency management
* Governance reporting
* Executive dashboards
* Steering committee reporting
* Regulatory reporting
* Utility capital programs
* Electric transmission and distribution
* Gas infrastructure
* Water infrastructure
* Wastewater infrastructure
* Generation projects
* Permitting coordination
* Right-of-way planning
* Outage windows
* Environmental requirements
* Construction constraints
* Finance coordination
* Procurement coordination
* Project management coordination
* Field data integration
* Project controls systems
* P6
* Cost management systems
* PowerBI
* Tableau
* Data integrity
* Reporting automation
* Data analytics
* AACE practices
* PMI practices
* Team leadership
* Stakeholder communication
Why Join Us
This Senior Project Controls Manager - Utilities role in Riyadh offers the opportunity to lead project controls governance for complex utility capital programs where schedule, cost, risk, reporting accuracy, and regulatory visibility are critical. The position provides senior exposure across portfolio controls, executive reporting, digital project controls, utility delivery constraints, and multi-year infrastructure investment planning. It is a strong fit for a project controls leader who wants to improve delivery discipline, guide high-performing teams, and contribute to reliable utility infrastructure development in Saudi Arabia’s active Utilities sector.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, construction, and program management company supporting major infrastructure, utilities, transportation, urban development, environmental, and technology-led programs. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Parsons supports complex capital programs through project controls leadership, schedule governance, cost management, risk oversight, technical coordination, stakeholder engagement, and client-focused delivery across high-value infrastructure environments.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Senior Project Controls Manager - Utilities will provide strategic oversight across a portfolio of large, multi-year utility projects where schedule certainty, cost visibility, regulatory compliance, risk control, and reliable reporting are essential to capital program success. The position partners with project leadership, finance, procurement, engineering, construction, operations, environmental, regulatory, and corporate reporting teams to improve decision-making, maintain accurate project data, and support delivery of utility infrastructure within approved time, cost, and governance parameters.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the development and implementation of project controls strategies, standards, procedures, and governance methods for utility capital projects and programs.
* Manage, mentor, and develop planners, schedulers, cost engineers, reporting analysts, and project controls professionals.
* Serve as a senior advisor to project and program leadership on schedule performance, cost trends, risks, forecast accuracy, and delivery concerns.
* Drive continuous improvement in project controls systems, reporting processes, analytics, and governance practices aligned with recognized industry standards.
* Oversee development, integration, and maintenance of detailed project and program schedules.
* Ensure schedules reflect realistic work sequencing, resource constraints, outage windows, permitting activities, environmental requirements, regulatory approvals, and utility construction constraints.
* Monitor schedule performance and conduct schedule health checks to identify logic issues, slippage, float concerns, and critical path exposure.
* Develop recovery plans, acceleration strategies, and scenario analysis for major projects and portfolio-level delivery risks.
* Conduct schedule risk analysis and what-if planning to support leadership decisions on phasing, sequencing, resource allocation, and program priorities.
* Lead the establishment of project baselines, including budgets, cash flows, cost breakdown structures, contingency planning, and reporting controls.
* Oversee cost tracking, forecasting, earned value management, variance analysis, and root-cause reviews.
* Ensure accurate monthly cost reporting covering commitments, actual costs, contingencies, forecast at completion, and budget movements.
* Coordinate with finance, procurement, project management, and commercial teams to reconcile project financials and align with corporate reporting requirements.
* Implement and maintain risk management processes, including risk registers, qualitative assessments, quantitative assessments, mitigation plans, and ownership tracking.
* Oversee project change management by reviewing change requests, assessing cost and schedule impacts, supporting approval processes, and ensuring proper documentation.
* Manage contingency development and utilization with clear governance, transparency, and accountability around drawdowns.
* Develop standardized dashboards, reports, portfolio summaries, and executive reporting packs for leadership, sponsors, and regulatory stakeholders.
* Present schedule, cost, risk, change, and performance updates at governance forums, steering committees, and portfolio review meetings.
* Ensure compliance with internal governance frameworks, regulatory requirements, audit standards, and reporting expectations.
* Collaborate with engineering, construction, operations, environmental, regulatory, procurement, real estate, finance, and field teams to integrate project controls data.
* Act as a liaison between field project teams and corporate functions to resolve project controls issues and align delivery priorities.
* Support external reporting and regulatory filings where required, including capital plans, program updates, public agency reporting, and rate case support.
* Own and optimize project controls systems and tools, including scheduling platforms, cost management systems, business intelligence tools, and reporting databases.
* Ensure project controls data is accurate, consistent, complete, traceable, and reliable across all functions and reporting cycles.
* Champion digitalization initiatives, automation of reporting, data analytics, dashboard development, and integration of field data into project controls workflows.
* Track key performance indicators including schedule adherence, forecast accuracy, reporting quality, risk mitigation effectiveness, stakeholder satisfaction, and team development.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, Business, Project Management, or a related field.
* Master’s degree in a related discipline is preferred.
* Minimum 10 years of progressive project controls experience, including at least 5 years in a project controls leadership role.
* Significant experience in the utilities sector, including electric transmission and distribution, gas infrastructure, water, wastewater, generation, or similar regulated infrastructure.
* Proven track record managing project controls for large, complex, multi-year capital programs or portfolios.
* Deep knowledge of planning, scheduling, cost control, earned value management, risk management, change management, and governance reporting.
* Strong understanding of utility project lifecycles, including permitting, right-of-way, outage coordination, construction constraints, environmental requirements, and regulatory oversight.
* Proficiency in scheduling software, cost management tools, business intelligence tools, and project controls reporting systems.
* Experience with PowerBI, Tableau, or similar analytics tools is highly desirable.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving ability with confidence interpreting complex project data and converting it into clear leadership insights.
* Excellent communication and presentation skills for senior executives, project sponsors, regulators, field teams, and non-technical stakeholders.
* Strong people management, coaching, and team development capability.
* Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment while managing multiple priorities across a portfolio of projects.
* Familiarity with AACE, PMI, earned value, schedule risk, cost forecasting, project controls governance, and capital program reporting practices is valuable.
Skills Set
* Project controls management
* Utilities project controls
* Capital program controls
* Planning and scheduling
* Cost control
* Cost forecasting
* Earned value management
* Schedule management
* Schedule health checks
* Schedule risk analysis
* Critical path analysis
* Program scheduling
* Portfolio controls
* Project baselines
* Budget management
* Cash flow management
* Cost breakdown structures
* Variance analysis
* Forecast at completion
* Commitments tracking
* Actual cost reporting
* Risk management
* Risk registers
* Qualitative risk assessment
* Quantitative risk assessment
* Change control
* Time impact assessment
* Contingency management
* Governance reporting
* Executive dashboards
* Steering committee reporting
* Regulatory reporting
* Utility capital programs
* Electric transmission and distribution
* Gas infrastructure
* Water infrastructure
* Wastewater infrastructure
* Generation projects
* Permitting coordination
* Right-of-way planning
* Outage windows
* Environmental requirements
* Construction constraints
* Finance coordination
* Procurement coordination
* Project management coordination
* Field data integration
* Project controls systems
* P6
* Cost management systems
* PowerBI
* Tableau
* Data integrity
* Reporting automation
* Data analytics
* AACE practices
* PMI practices
* Team leadership
* Stakeholder communication
Why Join Us
This Senior Project Controls Manager - Utilities role in Riyadh offers the opportunity to lead project controls governance for complex utility capital programs where schedule, cost, risk, reporting accuracy, and regulatory visibility are critical. The position provides senior exposure across portfolio controls, executive reporting, digital project controls, utility delivery constraints, and multi-year infrastructure investment planning. It is a strong fit for a project controls leader who wants to improve delivery discipline, guide high-performing teams, and contribute to reliable utility infrastructure development in Saudi Arabia’s active Utilities sector.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, construction, and program management company supporting major infrastructure, utilities, transportation, urban development, environmental, and technology-led programs. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Parsons supports complex capital programs through project controls leadership, schedule governance, cost management, risk oversight, technical coordination, stakeholder engagement, and client-focused delivery across high-value infrastructure environments.
