Senior Program Controls Specialist – Saudi National Only (Saudi Arabia)

Requirements

Candidates must possess a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and at least 10 years of progressive experience in project or program controls. Proficiency in enterprise systems like Primavera P6, SAP, and Power BI is required, along with strong leadership and analytical capabilities.

Job Summary

The Future Is What We Make It.

When you join Honeywell, you become a member of our Global team of thinkers,
innovators, dreamers and doers who make the things that make the future.

By changing the way we fly, fueling jets in an eco-friendly way, keeping
buildings smart and safe and even making it possible to breathe on Mars.

Make the Best You.

Job Summary

The Senior Program Controls Specialist is responsible for leading and governing
program controls across a portfolio of large, complex projects. The role
provides strategic oversight of cost management, scheduling, forecasting, risk
management, performance reporting, change control, and portfolio analytics to
support successful project delivery and strong financial performance.

The position serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, project
directors, finance, commercial, procurement, and delivery teams. It drives
data-informed decision-making, forecasting accuracy, governance compliance, and
continuous improvement across the project controls function. The Senior Program
Controls Manager leads cross-functional teams, establishes controls frameworks,
and ensures alignment between project execution, business objectives, client
requirements, and organizational standards.

Key Responsibilities

* Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of program
controls frameworks, methodologies, policies, and governance processes across
multiple projects and programs.
* Provide strategic oversight of project budgets, forecasts, schedules, cash
flow, earned value performance, and key project performance indicators.
* Direct portfolio-wide cost and schedule forecasting activities, ensuring
accuracy, consistency, transparency, and timely reporting to senior
leadership.
* Establish, approve, and maintain program and project baselines, ensuring
effective measurement of scope, schedule, cost, progress, and performance.
* Lead monthly business reviews and executive reporting, including variance
analysis, trend assessment, scenario evaluation, and actionable
recommendations.
* Drive the analysis and resolution of critical project risks, schedule delays,
cost overruns, productivity challenges, and execution issues.
* Partner with Project Directors, Program Managers, Commercial, Finance,
Procurement, and Delivery teams to optimize project outcomes and financial
performance.
* Provide executive-level dashboards and strategic insights using Power BI,
SAP, Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, and other enterprise project controls
systems.
* Lead change management and change control governance, including evaluation of
cost, schedule, contractual, risk, and business impacts.
* Oversee project controls personnel and provide direction, coaching,
mentoring, performance management, and capability development.
* Ensure project controls processes comply with corporate governance
requirements, client obligations, audit expectations, and industry best
practices.
* Direct portfolio-level risk management, mitigation planning, contingency
management, and escalation of material exposures.
* Support business planning, resource forecasting, capital planning, and
long-range portfolio performance analysis.
* Establish standards and best practices that improve forecasting accuracy,
reporting quality, data integrity, and operational efficiency.
* Lead audits, compliance reviews, lessons learned, assurance activities, and
continuous improvement initiatives.
* Act as the primary program controls focal point for executive leadership,
customers, auditors, and other key stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project
Management, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
* At least 10 years of progressive experience in project controls, program
controls, cost management, planning, scheduling, project management, or PMO
leadership.
* Demonstrated experience leading project controls across large-scale capital
projects, infrastructure, data centers, energy, engineering, construction, or
technology programs.
* Advanced expertise in cost management, forecasting and budgeting, schedule
management, Earned Value Management, risk management, performance
measurement, portfolio reporting, and change control.
* Extensive working knowledge of Primavera P6, SAP, Microsoft Excel, Power BI,
and enterprise project controls systems.
* Strong understanding of project finance, accounting principles, cash flow
management, accruals, and cost-to-complete methodologies.
* Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead cross-functional
teams in a complex matrix organization.
* Exceptional analytical, strategic planning, communication, reporting, and
executive presentation skills.
* Proven experience leading project controls teams and developing project
controls capability and talent.

Preferred Qualifications

* PMP, PgMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, CCP, PSP, EVP, or an equivalent professional
certification.
* Experience supporting multinational organizations and regional or global
project portfolios.
* Deep understanding of project governance, PMO operations, portfolio
management, and capital project delivery frameworks.
* Experience supporting data center, mission-critical, technology
infrastructure, EPC, construction, or major capital investment programs.
* Master’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Finance, Business
Administration, or a related field.
* Experience implementing enterprise reporting, business intelligence,
automation, or digital transformation initiatives within project controls

 

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS

We Offer:

The opportunity to work on the world’s most exciting projects, transforming the
cities we live in, the buildings where we work, and the vehicles that move us. 

* A culture that fosters inclusion, diversity and innovation.
* Market specific training and on-going personal development.

If this is your dream role, then we’d love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do
not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual
orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable
accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to
perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of
employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy
of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges,
enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We
serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of
services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies
Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence
layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees
with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned
to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.

Responsibilities

The Senior Program Controls Specialist leads and governs program controls across a portfolio of complex projects, providing strategic oversight of cost, schedule, and risk management. This role acts as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and drives data-informed decision-making through rigorous performance reporting and governance compliance.

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