Project Controls Manager
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Job Summary
Project Control Manager
Al Jurf Abu Dhabi (project-based)
1520 years experience Civil engineering background Luxury residential projects
Building the next chapter of luxury residential development
You will be joining the contracting arm of a luxury start-up subsidiary backed by a well-known villa and beachfront property developer in Abu Dhabi. While the business operates with the agility and pace of a young organization it benefits from strong governance financial discipline and a long-term pipeline of high-end residential developments.
As delivery activities scale on flagship projects strong project controls are essential to ensure time cost and performance discipline. This role sits at the heart of project delivery and plays a critical part in ensuring complex developments are delivered on time and on budget.
About the role
This is a senior project-based Project Control Manager role responsible for establishing and leading planning scheduling cost control and performance management on a large luxury residential development at Al Jurf. The role acts as the central point of control for schedule cost and progress ensuring alignment across planning procurement commercial engineering and site teams.
The role is hands-on highly visible and critical in a build-from-scratch contracting environment where deadlines are tight and expectations are high. You may support a maximum of two projects but the primary focus is on delivery excellence rather than portfolio oversight.
What you will own from day one
From day one you will take ownership of project control systems and performance visibility ensuring leadership has clear accurate and timely insights to support decision-making.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Establishing and maintaining baseline schedules and detailed project programmes
- Leading planning and scheduling activities using Primavera P6 and related tools
- Monitoring physical and financial progress against approved baselines
- Managing cost control forecasting and budget performance at project level
- Coordinating closely with QS procurement finance and engineering teams
- Identifying schedule cost procurement and resource risks early
- Preparing comprehensive project reports dashboards and performance analyses
- Recommending corrective actions to mitigate delays and overruns
- Supporting governance documentation and performance transparency
Your day-to-day reality
Your day typically starts with reviewing updated schedules cost reports and dashboards to assess progress against plan. You will work closely with planning teams to validate programme updates challenge assumptions and look ahead to upcoming risks. Throughout the day you will coordinate with procurement on material approvals and delivery timelines with QS and finance on cost performance and with engineering teams to ensure submittals and approvals align with the project schedule. The role involves frequent meetings detailed reporting and continuous follow-up to ensure issues are addressed before they impact delivery.
What you bring
We are looking for a seasoned Project Control professional who combines strong technical capability with maturity resilience and sound judgement.
Key requirements
- Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline
- Approximately 1520 years of experience within contracting or construction environments
- Strong expertise in project planning scheduling cost control and performance management
- Proven experience using Primavera P6 and project control systems
- Experience on large-scale residential developments (villa compounds of 8090 units or multiple high-rise buildings)
- Solid understanding of procurement processes delay analysis and risk management
- UAE experience is strongly preferred; KSA experience is also acceptable
- Strong analytical communication and reporting skills
- Professional working proficiency in English; Arabic is an advantage
Professional certifications such as PMP or CCP experience with Earned Value Management and strong dashboarding or data visualisation skills are considered advantages.
The environment you are joining
This is a high-pressure project-driven environment with long working hours and clear delivery expectations. The organization is still building structure so you will need to be comfortable operating with a degree of ambiguity while maintaining discipline and return you will have real ownership visibility and the opportunity to influence how project controls are embedded as the business grows.
Whats in it for you
This role offers the chance to play a key role in delivering a flagship luxury residential project with strong backing from an experienced developer and a growing project pipeline. You will have senior-level responsibility at project level close interaction with leadership and the opportunity to help shape how project control is done in a fast-growing contracting organization.
If you are motivated by challenge ownership and the opportunity to be part of a long-term success story we would like to hear from you.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Construction Estimating
- Construction Experience
- PMBOK
- Visio
- Construction Management
- Project Management
- Project Management Software
- Microsoft Project
- Project Management Lifecycle
- Contracts
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