PMC Project Controls Lead

About the Role

This is a key opportunity for an experienced PMC Project Controls Lead with a strong history in managing planning, scheduling, budgeting, and progress tracking to ensure projects meet their goals efficiently and within defined constraints, working for a prominent client.

About Our Client and Projects

Wood's Oil, Gas & New Energies division is recognized globally for delivering complex projects in the energy sector. We provide innovative and integrated solutions challenging conventional norms, focusing on upstream and midstream oil and gas, gas to liquids, decarbonization, and electrification. Our teams enable energy security and transition, advancing sustainable power and low-carbon concepts worldwide.

Key Objectives

• Creating detailed plans, schedules, and workflows for guiding project execution.
• Monitoring budgets, forecasting costs, and controlling finances throughout project lifecycles.
• Evaluating project milestones and performance relative to schedules and budgets.
• Identifying and mitigating potential risks proactively.
• Engaging with stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency on project goals.
• Preparing timely, accurate progress reports for management and stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities

• Full ownership of project planning, scheduling, and controls for engineering and construction projects.
• Developing, maintaining, and reporting against detailed project plans to meet client schedules and priorities.
• Ensuring work meets quality standards and is performed according to company procedures.
• Upholding a consistently high standard of safety throughout the project.
• Creating a comprehensive Work Breakdown Structure reflecting project scope and requirements.
• Developing, baselining, updating, and maintaining detailed schedules for design development, construction, pre-commissioning, and start-up phases.
• Collaborating with clients, team members, contractors, and subcontractors to incorporate all requirements into schedules.
• Facilitating workshops to present and review schedules with stakeholders to secure agreement before baselining.
• Agreeing with clients on progress measurement and reporting criteria.
• Reviewing subcontractor and contractor schedules to ensure conformity with the master plan.
• Periodically updating schedules to reflect progress and preparing forecasts accordingly.
• Highlighting schedule slippage issues and working with project teams to devise recovery plans.
• Analyzing impacts of scope or requirement changes and revising schedules after approvals.
• Compiling and distributing weekly, fortnightly, and monthly progress reports and curves to relevant stakeholders.
• Participating in progress review meetings with project management, clients, and contractors.
• Verifying actual progress claimed by contractors and subcontractors.
• Coordinating with procurement and supply chain teams to track and update long-lead equipment and bulk procurement statuses in schedules.
• Providing project completion forecasts including anticipated man-hours to support cost forecasting.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum 17 years of relevant experience in the oil and gas industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• In-depth knowledge of engineering, procurement, construction planning processes, and project management methodologies.
• Familiarity with Cost-Time-Resource (CTR) and progress measurement techniques.
• Experience working with diverse multinational and multicultural project teams preferred.
• Prior experience in the Middle East region considered advantageous.

Additional Information

• Wood values diversity and inclusion, actively fostering equal opportunity across all recruitment decisions without discrimination based on race, age, gender, disability, or other protected characteristics.
• Our offerings include competitive remuneration with regular reviews, comprehensive medical insurance covering inpatient and outpatient care, group life and personal accident insurance, end of service gratuity compliant with UAE Labor Law, an employee share purchase plan, long service awards every five years, professional development programs tailored to individual needs, global network connections, and a dedicated Energy Transition Academy for continued learning.