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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nParsons is looking for Project Controls Specialist to be based in Makkah, is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and monitoring project control processes to support the successful delivery of projects on time, within budget, and in accordance with approved scope and quality standards. The role provides accurate analysis of project schedules, costs, risks, changes, resources, and performance to support effective decision-making..\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nProject Controls Management\nDevelop and maintain project controls plans, procedures, tools, and reporting standards.\nEstablish project baselines for scope, schedule, cost, resources, and performance measurement.\nMonitor project performance against approved plans and identify variances.\nMaintain accurate project control records, registers, and supporting documentation.\nEnsure compliance with organizational policies, governance requirements, and project controls procedures.\nSupport project managers and delivery teams with project controls guidance and analysis.\nCost Control and Financial Management\nDevelop and maintain project budgets, forecasts, cash-flow profiles, and cost reports.\nTrack actual costs, commitments, accruals, purchase orders, invoices, and remaining budgets.\nAnalyze budget and cost variances and provide explanations and recommendations.\nSupport earned value management, cost forecasting, and estimate-at-completion analysis where applicable.\nCoordinate with finance, procurement, commercial, and project teams to validate financial data.\nMonitor cost trends and identify potential cost overruns or savings opportunities.\nSchedule Management\nDevelop, maintain, and update detailed project schedules in collaboration with project teams.\nMonitor progress against key milestones, critical path activities, and contractual deadlines.\nAnalyze schedule performance, delays, dependencies, constraints, and recovery requirements.\nSupport schedule forecasting, what-if analysis, and recovery planning.\nReview schedule updates for accuracy, logic, sequencing, and completeness.\nPrepare schedule reports and provide recommendations to improve delivery performance.\nPerformance Reporting\nPrepare weekly, monthly, and ad hoc project controls reports and dashboards.\nReport on cost, schedule, progress, scope, risks, issues, changes, resources, and forecasts.\nConsolidate data from project managers, contractors, vendors, and functional teams.\nProvide trend analysis and management insights to support decision-making.\nPrepare executive summaries, performance presentations, and project review packs.\nEnsure all reports are accurate, timely, consistent, and aligned with reporting requirements.\nRisk, Change, and Progress Control\nMaintain project risk, issue, opportunity, assumption, dependency, and change registers.\nAssess the potential impact of changes on cost, schedule, scope, resources, and benefits.\nSupport change control processes, including impact assessments and approval tracking.\nValidate reported progress against deliverables, milestones, site records, or agreed performance measures.\nMonitor trends and identify emerging risks to project objectives.\nSupport mitigation planning and follow-up on outstanding actions.\nGovernance and Stakeholder Support\nSupport project reviews, stage gates, governance meetings, and assurance activities.\nPrepare agendas, reports, dashboards, minutes, and action trackers for project forums.\nWork closely with project managers, planners, cost engineers, finance, procurement, contractors, and senior stakeholders.\nProvide clear explanations of project performance, variances, trends, and corrective actions.\nSupport audits, compliance reviews, lessons learned, and project closeout activities.\nPromote consistent use of project controls processes, systems, and reporting standards.\nWhat Required Skills You'll Bring:\nBachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, construction management, finance, business, or a related discipline.\n15 years of experience in project controls, project planning, cost control, project reporting, or project management.\nExperience managing project schedules, budgets, forecasts, and performance reports.\nStrong knowledge of project controls principles, cost management, schedule 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origin, age, disability or genetic information.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! 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