Manager, Program Management 1
Role Overview
Support engineering leadership with transparent, accurate, timely reporting on capital portfolio performance across North America.
Partner with field personnel, project owners, and finance teams on monthly insights, production reviews, and forecast accuracy for a $1.2 billion engineering capital program.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role purpose
Support engineering leadership with transparent, accurate, timely reporting on capital portfolio performance across North America.
Partner with field personnel, project owners, and finance teams on monthly insights, production reviews, and forecast accuracy for a $1.2 billion engineering capital program.
Position accountabilities
- Develop monthly capital forecasts, analyze outlooks, and identify risks or areas of concern.
- Partner with engineering leadership on performance challenges and mitigation strategies.
- Identify budget constraints and scope changes; oversee the Project Change Notice process with engineering and finance.
- Contribute to and lead monthly and annual reviews with Assistant Chief Engineers.
- Advance improvements to engineering performance, controls, and reporting transparency.
- Refresh daily, weekly, and monthly reports across ECC, S/4HANA, Excel, Power BI, and internal platforms.
- Conduct ad hoc project spend, cost-driver, and capital portfolio analyses.
Position requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Accounting, or a related field, and at least 5 years of relevant reporting, program controls, engineering quality assurance, or analytical experience.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Proficiency in Excel financial modeling, VBA, Power Query, and Power BI; demonstrated AI prompting capability.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to build and refine reporting templates, and effective cross-functional communication.
- SAP and data visualization experience are assets; railroad or transportation industry experience is an asset.
Role details
- Full-time, non-union position in Calgary, Alberta; travel is listed as 0–10%.
Benefits
- Benefits include a competitive benefits package, pension or retirement plans, employee share purchase plan, annual fitness subsidy, and part-time studies program.
Additional role information
Position location may change based on organizational requirements.
The posting states that the employee may be required to obtain or maintain conductor or locomotive engineer certification or qualification.
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