Project Controls Director

Overview:

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 57th largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2023 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards, mentoring and coaching programs and extensive in-house on demand learning courses.

Responsibilities: Our newest opportunity is for a talented Project Controls Director to join our award-winning team based in Riyadh, KSA.
This critical role will be responsible for maintaining communication with the client’s site engineers on all project related issues, and reviewing and implementing mechanical contract drawings and building specifications. We envisage success in this role to include:

• Using the divisional Project Procedures Manual and best work practices, establish a set of project specific procedures to cover the coordination and control of project services activities.
• Providing assistance to planners in the development and integration of independent schedules into the total project plan.
• Assisting the performing organization’s and unit’s work logics and deciding adequacy of schedules in support of overall project schedule.
• Preparing and monitoring the registers for risk management throughout the project life cycle.
• Preparing and monitoring project trends.
• Ensuring effective project reviews are complete with the Project Managers/Directors as per the project plan.
• Assisting with preparing/updating detailed project budgets ensuring the current and fore-casted budget with the proposed.

Qualifications: To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include 20 years work experience partnered with a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent 8 years of your career will have been focused purely on Project Controls.

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.