Project Controls Manager

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking a highly experienced Project Controls Manager to play a key role within their team.

The Project Controls Manager is responsible for establishing, leading, and maintaining robust project controls (with a strong emphasis on schedule management) to support the FIDIC Engineer in delivering their full delegated duties under the Delivery Partner Agreement.

The role covers roads, districts and logistics packages within the Master Development Unit Projects portfolio, ensuring that all works are planned, monitored and reported in full compliance with the Contracts’ technical, contractual, commercial and performance requirements.

The Project Controls Manager will oversee planning and scheduling, cost control, progress measurement, risk and change management, reporting and governance across design and construction, working closely with Contracts Administration, Claims Management and Document Control functions.

What You'll Be Doing;

• Lead the project controls function for assigned roads, districts and logistics projects under the FIDIC Engineer’s remit within the MDU‑P portfolio.
• Develop and implement project controls strategies, procedures, tools and templates aligned with the Client’s and Delivery Partner’s requirements.
• Coordinate and integrate planning, cost, risk, change and reporting activities across multiple contracts and stakeholders.
• Develop, review and maintain integrated master schedules for all assigned projects, covering design, procurement, construction, testing & commissioning and handover.
• Review and validate Contractors’ baseline and updated schedules (e.g. using Primavera P6), ensuring compliance with FIDIC requirements, Employer’s requirements and contract provisions.
• Analyse logic, sequencing, interfaces, resource loading and productivity to ensure realistic, constructible and optimized schedules for roads, districts and logistics scopes.
• Monitor schedule performance, identify variances, assess critical and near‑critical paths and provide early warning of potential delays.
• Coordinate schedule interfaces between multiple work packages, districts and logistics corridors, ensuring alignment with overall program milestones and dependencies.
• Support the FIDIC Engineer in schedule‑related contractual matters (extensions of time, acceleration, mitigation, liquidated damages, etc.).
• Establish and maintain cost control structures in coordination with Commercial and Contracts Administration teams.
• Implement Earned Value Management (EVM) and other performance measurement techniques to monitor time–cost performance.
• Track progress against baseline, including physical progress, quantities and key performance indicators, and reconcile with financial/cost data.
• Support preparation of forecasts at completion for time and cost, and advise on potential overruns and mitigation strategies.
• Implement and manage project change control processes, ensuring all scope, time and cost changes are identified, assessed, logged and reported.
• Coordinate with the FIDIC Engineer, Contract Administration and Commercial teams in assessing schedule and cost impacts of variations and change orders.
• Maintain and update project risk registers, perform qualitative and quantitative schedule risk analysis where required and propose mitigation strategies.
• Provide schedule and project controls input into claims identification, analysis and defence/negotiation (e.g. delay analysis, disruption evaluation, concurrency assessments) in support of Claims Management.
• Prepare and consolidate periodic project controls reports (weekly, monthly, ad hoc) for the FIDIC Engineer and Client, covering schedule, progress, cost, risk, change and key issues.
• Develop dashboards and management summaries showing current status, trends, forecasts and key decisions required.
• Participate in and/or lead progress meetings, coordination meetings and risk/change workshops, presenting project controls information clearly and concisely.
• Ensure alignment of project controls data and reporting with Document Control, so that all baseline and updated schedules, reports and supporting records are properly filed and traceable.
• Provide the FIDIC Engineer with robust, evidence‑based project controls data to support contract administration, payment certification, determination of extensions of time and assessment of contractors’ performance.
• Assist in verifying Contractors’ progress and entitlement for interim payment applications, claims and variations from a time and progress standpoint.
• Contribute to ensuring that works are delivered in full compliance with technical, contractual and performance requirements by providing timely controls insight and advice.
• Coordinate with design and construction supervision teams to ensure that program and controls requirements are understood, implemented and maintained.
• Manage and mentor a team of planners, project controls engineers and analysts supporting the FIDIC Engineer Services across roads, districts and logistics.
• Allocate resources effectively across projects based on workload, priorities and risk.
• Promote best practices in project controls, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the team and wider project organization.

What You'll Bring;

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in project controls on large‑scale infrastructure projects, including major roads/highways and/or urban districts; Middle East experience preferred.
• Proven experience in a similar role supporting FIDIC‑based contracts (e.g. FIDIC Red/Yellow/Silver Book) as part of an Engineer, PMC, or major consultancy.
• Advanced proficiency in planning and scheduling tools, particularly Primavera P6; experience with other tools (e.g. TILOS, MS Project) is an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of project controls processes across schedule, cost, risk, change and reporting.
• Demonstrated capability in schedule delay analysis methods (e.g. time impact analysis, windows analysis, as‑planned vs as‑built).
• Familiarity with Earned Value Management and KPI‑based performance measurement.
• Solid understanding of contracts administration and commercial processes on large infrastructure projects.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word); experience with BI/reporting tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) is an advantage.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving and critical‑thinking skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex schedule and controls data to non‑specialists.
• Ability to work within a multi‑disciplinary, multicultural team and manage multiple stakeholders.
• High level of organization, attention to detail and integrity in handling project data.
• Proactive, able to foresee issues, propose mitigation measures and support informed decision‑making.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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