Project Control Lead - Traffic Safety Management

Job posting location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Position Objective:

• Lead and oversee project controls across a large-scale Traffic Management and Advanced Traffic Safety Program, ensuring effective planning, scheduling, cost management, governance, and performance monitoring.
• Establish robust project controls frameworks that enable successful delivery through accurate reporting, proactive risk management, and informed executive decision-making while ensuring compliance with contractual obligations and organizational governance standards.

Job Description & Key Responsibilities:

Project Controls & Governance

• Lead all project controls activities including planning, scheduling, cost control, risk management, change control, and performance monitoring.
• Develop and implement project controls frameworks, governance processes, reporting standards, and control procedures across multiple workstreams.
• Establish and maintain integrated master schedules, project baselines, milestones, and project performance metrics.
• Ensure project controls processes comply with organizational governance, contractual obligations, and project delivery standards.

Planning & Performance Monitoring

• Monitor project performance against approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and contractual milestones.
• Analyze schedule and cost variances, identify delivery risks, and recommend corrective actions.
• Track project progress across multiple workstreams and ensure alignment with overall program objectives.
• Support forecasting, trend analysis, and performance measurement throughout the project lifecycle.

Cost & Commercial Controls

• Prepare and maintain project budgets, cost reports, cash flow forecasts, and financial performance reports.
• Monitor project expenditure against approved budgets and forecast final project costs.
• Support contract administration, variation management, claims assessment, and commercial reporting.
• Monitor contractor and vendor performance against contractual deliverables and agreed milestones.

Risk, Change & Controls

• Develop and maintain RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) Registers.
• Manage project change requests, impact assessments, and baseline revisions.
• Coordinate risk identification workshops and monitor mitigation plans.
• Ensure project documentation, change logs, and control records remain accurate and up to date.

Reporting & Executive Support

• Prepare executive dashboards, KPI reports, earned value reports, schedule performance analysis, and governance presentations.
• Produce weekly and monthly project controls reports for senior leadership and governance committees.
• Support executive decision-making through accurate project performance reporting and data analysis.
• Maintain project control documentation, audit records, and compliance reporting.

Stakeholder & Project Coordination

• Coordinate with project managers, engineering teams, commercial teams, consultants, contractors, and client representatives to ensure alignment across project controls activities.
• Support project reviews, governance meetings, audits, and stage-gate approvals.
• Drive continuous improvement in project controls processes, reporting methodologies, and governance practices.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in Project Controls, Planning, Scheduling, Cost Control, or Commercial Management.
• Proven experience supporting large-scale Traffic Management, Transportation, Infrastructure, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Smart Mobility, or Government Infrastructure programs.
• Strong experience in integrated planning, project scheduling, cost management, forecasting, project reporting, and governance.
• Demonstrated experience managing contractor performance, project controls, commercial reporting, risk management, and change control.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary project environments involving engineering consultants, contractors, technology vendors, and government stakeholders.