Lead Project Control Engineer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Job Description

Job Purpose

  • Provide strategic leadership for project controls across FEED and Detail Engineering projects in the Oil & Gas sector.
  • Develop, implement, and maintain robust project controls processes and systems to ensure accurate planning, scheduling, cost control, and earned value management.
  • Interface with multi-disciplinary teams and clients to establish baselines, monitor performance, and drive on-time, on-budget project delivery.
  • Mentor project control professionals, improve forecasting accuracy, and ensure compliance with corporate standards and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the development of project schedules (critical path method, resource-loaded schedules) and cost forecasts; manage baseline establishment and change control.
  • Implement and maintain cost accounting, budgeting, earned value management (EVM), trend analysis, and risk registers.
  • Monitor and report on scope, schedule, cost, and risk performance; provide actionable insights to project leadership.
  • Establish and maintain integrated master schedules (IMS) and work breakdown structures (WBS); coordinate with all EPC disciplines.
  • Manage change control processes (ECP/MOC), interfaces, and documentation control for project controls deliverables.
  • Prepare and review dashboards, progress reports, cost reports, and forecast-at-completion (FAC) analyses for stakeholders and clients.
  • Conduct risk analyses (quantitative and qualitative), perform contingency planning, and escalate critical issues.
  • Ensure compliance with company standards, codes, and safety requirements; support internal and external audits.
  • Lead the development of procedures for cost estimation, procurement planning, and schedule risk analysis.
  • Mentor and develop junior project controls engineers; support staffing, training, and performance evaluations.
  • Support procurement, construction, and commissioning activities with timely data and analyses.
  • Stay current with advances in project controls tools and methodologies; recommend value-added solutions.

Skills Required

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD2061696
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Education
    Not mentioned