Project Control Specialist
| Engineering | 15 Years Experience | PMP | PMI-SP | AACEI | Project Control | Scheduling | Planning | Cost Control | Refineries | Petrochemicals | Risk Management | Governance | Procurement
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WHO IS OUR CLIENT?
Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.
WHAT IS YOUR CHALLENGE?
We are seeking a project control specialist to join joint Venture projects Support Division (JVPS)
Joint Venture Projects Support Division (JVPS) under Fuels Strategy & Capital Planning Department (FS&CPD) is responsible for providing oversight and support to Aramco affiliates projects within Downstream Fuels portfolios. This includes providing an independent view to decision makers on project progress, identifying areas of improvement and recommending corrective actions.
Your primary role is to lead and conduct project health check assessment process and advice on mitigation plans to maintain project cost and schedule. You are also going to provide project control services to project team as required.
REQUIREMENTS
As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from a recognized and approved program. A master degree in engineering is preferred.
You will have 15 years work experiences in project management, including at least 10 years in project control e.g., planning, scheduling and cost control.
- you must have PMP and PMI-SP certificates from Project Management Institute (or equivalent certificates)
- you must be certified by & AACEI (Advanced Association of Cost Engineer) or equivalent certificates.
- You must have work experiences in mega projects for refineries, petrochemicals or infrastructure industries.
- you will also have experiences in developing project scope, project schedule and cost estimates.
- You must have the capability to enhance benchmarking database from cost and industry perspective.
RESPONSABILITIES
As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
- Conduct project health check assessment for joint venture projects and present the outcome to the project sponsor.
- Review and monitor projects performance and present results to the project team and project sponsor.
- Prepare reports to analyses project progress in development or execution stages.
- Perform project risks analyses.
- Manage the database for projects lessons learned.
- Conduct benchmarking studies.
- Support project team by providing them with the best practices in project oversight and project control.
- Provide consultation services in project management such as project economics, governance, organization setup, cost estimating, scheduling, procurements and risk management.
- Provide support to develop the business plan, project feasibility, project technical development
Analyze claims and advice on negotiation strategies.
REWARDS & BENEFITS OVERVIEW
Our client offers excellent compensation and industry-leading benefits and other programs designed to meet the diverse needs of their employees and their families.
Salary - commensurate with experience and individual qualifications.
Salary packages can include expatriate premiums & supplemental benefits plans
Annual bonus
Housing: housing allowance
Healthcare: Access to top-notch healthcare is an important part of working as an expatriate for our client.
Dependent Education: High School allowance
Annual vacation: 22 days of vacation leave per year. In addition to annual vacations days, employees also receive 11 paid company holidays each year.
Repatriation allowance: Annually round trip to your home country.
THE STAGES OF THIS PROCESS ARE:
1. Resume Evaluation: A member of our recruitment team will evaluate that your resume matches the client's job description requirement.
Use the job description requirements to highlight your relevant experience and skills.
Be specific and describe the significance of your work, keyword alignment is important. Emphasize the impact of the work you've contributed to HR areas and tasks. Use your professional profile/resume to focus on major accomplishments and qualifications that match the job.
If your resume evaluation is suitable for this position, the recruitment team will invite you to a preliminary phone/video interview in 2-3 days.
If your resume evaluation is not suitable, you will be receiving an e-mail notification in 2-3 days.
2. Interviews stage
2.1 LHR Americas preliminary phone/video interview: A member of the Talent Acquisition team from LHR Americas will first schedule a call with you to discuss the details of the position, your interests, and qualifications. Furthermore, your English level will be evaluated at this stage, ONLY native or advanced speakers will approve this evaluation.
If this preliminary phone/video interview is successful your resume will be submitted to our client.
If your preliminary phone/video interview is not successful our Talent Acquisition consultant will inform you.
2.2 Client phone/video interview: This interview will happen only if your resume is approved by our client, we cannot guarantee the time our Client will take to approve your resume, but it should take less than a week.
If your resume is approved a member of the Talent Acquisition Team from our client will schedule a call with you to evaluate your qualifications.
The client interview contains technical questions that help assess your familiarity with problem-solving in your given field and may include a behavioral evaluation. Be prepared to explain how you approach problems and produce solutions.
If your phone interview is successful, the hiring team will further evaluate your resume, and they will invite you to a video interview when hiring managers are available.
If your resume is not approved, LHR Americas will inform you.
2.3 Video interviews with hiring managers: which may also contain technical questions that help us assess your familiarity with problem-solving in your given field.
3. Conditional Offer
A successful interview may result in a conditional offer of employment.
Conditions for employment include but are not limited to: medical examinations, and permission to secure a visa to work and reside in-country.
4. Relocation process
After your offer is accepted and all conditions for employment are met, you will be assigned a relocation advisor from LHR Americas. This advisor is your go-to resource for the transition, providing helpful advice on everything from when to give notice to your current employer to visa services.
- Locations
- Riad - Arabia

Project Control Specialist
| Engineering | 15 Years Experience | PMP | PMI-SP | AACEI | Project Control | Scheduling | Planning | Cost Control | Refineries | Petrochemicals | Risk Management | Governance | Procurement
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