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The community will be a distinct, self-sustaining hub for Riyadh offering several iconic assets. KBR will provide PMO services, enterprise - level governance, assurance, integration and performance oversight across all projects and programs.\nTHE ROLE\nReporting to the Programme Director, the Project - Construction Director will be responsible for oversight from the PMO level for both pre and post contract award of projects. The position is responsible for management of a masterplan for oversight of executive commercial, planning, and risk reporting. The Project - Construction Director operates in a matrix PMO organization with direct responsibility for oversight of delivery, while working with function members of commercial, planning and risks departments. The objective is the control of delivery, recommending the most appropriate commercial strategy, pre and post contract management, provision of accurate status reports that allow timely decisions to be made to prevent schedule slippage and cost overruns, and production of close out reports for each project.\nMAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:\nOversight and coordination with PMCs to develop, implement, and govern standard reporting formats to report upon quality, commercial, planning, quality and safety.\nValidate progress along the pre and post contact stage gate process.\nValidate earned progress against baselines schedules.\nCoordinate with the PMCs for preparation and validation of project cost reports.\nProvide oversight and validation of PMC preparation of annual programme wide budgets and preparation of monthly cashflow reports.\nParticipate in development of value engineering proposals and value adding.\nIdentify and report upon risks to scope resulting in potential growth trends.\nWork 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