Project Controls Engineer

Currie & Brown is currently looking for a project controls engineer to work on a prestigious high-rise tower project based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:

• Ensuring compliance with programme-wide reporting frameworks and adherence to quality standards in performing and maintain policies and procedures
• Developing and maintaining detailed product schedules
• Monitoring cost and commitment through requisition and invoice review
• Ensuring active engagement of team members by delegation of tasks to the appropriate person both on a long-term and on a day-to-day basis
• Coordinating and regulating various meetings such as project progress review meetings, quality circles, etc
• Applying various project progress methods to ensure the project schedule is on track to meet deadlines or deliverables
• Ensuring adherence to recommended best practices
• Developing strategies to overcome roadblocks or delays through various methods such as using industry-related technical knowledge, innovating short cuts or alternative ways, improvising with available resources, scheduling overtime to meet the deadline, etc
• Ensuring compliance with safety standards
• Developing and monitoring project control system and cost forecasts
• Analyzing, evaluating and forecasting the current project status against the baseline schedule
• Assessing the impacts of design or construction changes to the schedule

Requirements

• BSc in construction management, engineering, architecture, planning or management information systems
• Experience using Primavera (P6) certification
• A minimum of 10 years’ technical delivery experience gained within a global construction consultancy
• Progressing towards accreditation to a relevant professional body such as APM, CIOB or PMP
• Experience working on high-rise projects, fit-outs, testing and commissioning and tenancy co-ordination.
• Post-contract experience in handover and final accounts
• Middle East experience is essential
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible

About the Company

Currie & Brown is one of the world's leading physical assets management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients in respect of the procurement, construction, management and utilisation of their physical assets.

From airports to corporate headquarters, power stations to health and education, leisure and hotel facilities to transportation infrastructure - the sheer range of projects we are involved in gives us a vast breadth and depth of experience. Projects of this kind cannot be tackled with an 'off-the-peg, one-size-fits-all' solution. Instead, we apply flexible working and innovative thinking to provide a value-for-money, tailored solution.

We operate throughout the world and have offices in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, India and the Middle East.