Project Controls Director at Dangote Industries Limited

Dangote Group is one of Nigeria’s most diversified business conglomerates with a hard – earned reputation for excellent business practices and products’ quality with its operational headquarters in the bustling metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria in West Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Controls Director

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• Establish and lead an integrated project controls function across the EPC/construction portfolio, covering end-to-end planning, cost management, progress tracking, risk and change control, forecasting, and executive-level (CEO) performance reporting to ensure accurate, timely, and decision-ready project insights. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish and govern the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across all projects, including critical path analysis, look‑ahead planning, and validation of recovery and acceleration plans.
• Lead enterprise‑wide cost control, including budget management, commitments, cash‑flow forecasting, cost‑to‑complete, and earned value management (EVM).
• Define and enforce standardised progress measurement systems across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.
• Develop and maintain portfolio‑level dashboards, KPIs, and performance reports, ensuring data integrity, reporting discipline, and executive readiness.
• Prepare CEO and Board review packs, translating complex project data into clear insights, risks, trends, and decision recommendations.
• Own and govern risk registers, issue logs, change control, and trend management, ensuring early identification and mitigation of project risks.
• Interface closely with Commercial and Contracts teams on early‑warning notices, claims evaluation, and substantiation or defence of contractual positions.
• Provide independent challenge to project teams and contractors by scrutinising progress claims, forecasts, recovery plans, and cost assumptions.
• Establish and uphold project controls standards, methodologies, and governance frameworks across Dangote Construction.
• Build and lead project controls capability, ensuring consistency, discipline, and performance excellence across the project portfolio.

Key Requirements
Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, Finance, Cost Management or related discipline. Equivalent HND may be considered with exceptional major-project controls leadership experience.
• Professional certification preferred: AACE CCP / CEP / EVP / PSP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent recognized project controls credential.
• Minimum 18 years project controls experience in EPC, EPCM, PMC, construction, industrial, infrastructure, energy, cement, refinery, power, port, rail, roads or large building programs.
• Advanced competency in Primavera P6 is mandatory. Strong Excel capability is mandatory. Power BI or equivalent dashboarding capability is strongly preferred.
• Strong command of EPC / construction contracting, baseline control, progress measurement, cost forecasting, change control and claims-sensitive documentation.
• Minimum 8 years leading project controls teams, preferably across a portfolio or multi-project environment rather than a single-site-only role.
• Proven experience creating or recovering controls systems from low-maturity environments, including WBS, CBS, coding structures, reporting calendars and data-quality rules.
• Track record in executive reporting, monthly project reviews, schedule recovery analysis, cost-to-complete reviews and contractor performance challenge.

Functional Competencies:

• Experience on industrial plants, refinery, petrochemical, cement, power, ports, infrastructure or large civil / building programs.
• Forensic planning, delay analysis, extension-of-time analysis, disruption analysis or claims-defense experience.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, EcoSys, Aconex, Primavera Unifier, MS Project Server, Power BI, Tableau or comparable enterprise systems.
• Prior owner / client-side controls leadership experience in addition to EPC contractor experience.
• Ability to design a practical controls organization, reporting calendar and governance model for a Lagos-led project portfolio.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified. 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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