Project Controls Engineer - Petrochemical plant project (Saudi Arabia)

Eram Talent is hiring on behalf of its leading Petrochemical client for a Senior Project Controls Engineer to support major refinery and petrochemical projects.

The client is seeking an experienced project controls professional with a strong background in project planning, scheduling, cost control, forecasting, and performance reporting within EPCM and construction environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, monitoring, analyzing, and reporting project performance across scope, cost, schedule, risk, quality, and safety, while ensuring effective project controls systems, accurate forecasting, critical-path management, and alignment with approved project baselines. The role will also involve coordinating and overseeing contractors' project controls activities, providing guidance to project teams, and delivering reliable performance reports to project management and clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide guidance, direction, and specialized support for resolving complex project control issues.
• Calculate, analyze, report, and recommend actions on project data, including schedule, cost, budget, risk, quality, and safety.
• Develop project cash-flow forecasts.
• Integrate scope, cost, and schedule within the Work Breakdown Structure and maintain accurate mapping.
• Analyze, evaluate, and forecast current project status against the approved baseline schedule.
• Assess the effects of design or construction changes and schedule slippages.
• Report schedule status to project management, Sadara management, and the client, as applicable.
• Apply engineering, procurement, and construction terminology, concepts, and relationships.
• Develop and maintain critical-path logic networks and bar charts.
• Customize project control systems to meet specific project requirements.
• Accumulate and maintain historical performance data to support realistic future planning and forecasting.
• Guide and oversee EPCM & Construction contractors to effectively sett up their project controls & reporting structure.
• Pro-actively verify & ensure accurate reporting from other project contractors.
• Supervise and support lower-level project controls engineers or support personnel, when assigned.
• Perform other responsibilities associated with the position, as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business Management.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in refinery or petrochemical plant project activities.
• Strong practical experience working in a multinational environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to analyze and present reports clearly and in an organized manner.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and project controls software, including Primavera P6.