Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Role Description The Senior Project Control Engineer will be part of the Turner & Townsend Advisory team internally and the client representative at a project level. The incumbent will be based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Senior Project Control Engineer will operate in a collaborative supporting team environment, ensuring that client objectives are met. We are looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated individual who has excellent written and verbal communication skills and who wants to make a difference to the Project Management division.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate, consistent, and decision ready cost, schedule, and performance reporting across multiple workstreams and packages.
• Collect, validate, consolidate, and transform data from Finance, Planning, Project Controls, PMCs, and Contractors.
• Perform cost and schedule variance analysis and apply Earned Value Management (EVM) to assess performance and trends.
• Analyze integrated cost, schedule, earned value, and payments data to provide clear, actionable insights for management decision making.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards and package level reports using Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Present performance through monthly bars, cumulative curves, and trend analysis.
• Ensure consistent application of package, project, and workstream structures, codes, and definitions.
• Support a single source of truth through standardized templates, data validation, and governance.
• Align reporting outputs with systems such as Oracle Unifier.
• Demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder management skills, clearly explaining performance, variances, and risks.
• Provide training and coaching to teams to support adoption of new reporting upgrades, processes, and updates.
• Continuously improve reporting quality, data flows, and dashboard usability.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Strong Power BI skills and experience required.
• BSc Degree in the relevant field is preferred.
• Minimum 10 - 12 years post graduate experience is required.
• Regional experience with professional consultancy is necessary.
• Knowledge with multiple discipline specific software applications such as Primavera (P6) and/or other planning and resourcing software.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of project management and Planning software and tools.