Manager, Project Controls

Role overview

Project controls and portfolio oversight

• Lead a multidisciplinary team covering scheduling, cost management, change management, performance management, and reporting.
• Maintain project and program baselines and integrate cost, schedule, estimating, and risk inputs into portfolio planning and forecasts.
• Direct budgets, commitments, accruals, cost forecasting, funding tracking, contingency allocation, and variance analysis.
• Lead change governance, reviews, approvals, and tracking of impacts to cost, schedule, scope, funding, and project objectives.
• Monitor performance trends, earned value, variances, risks, and opportunities using centralized project controls systems.
• Prepare executive reports, dashboards, portfolio summaries, and decision-support materials.
• Champion enterprise adoption of Ares PRISM and improve controls consistency, transparency, and accountability.
• Build and mentor a high-performing project controls team.

Required qualifications

• Degree or post-secondary diploma in engineering, construction management, project management, business administration, or a related field; equivalent education, training, and experience may be considered.
• Significant management experience leading multidisciplinary project controls teams for large, complex capital infrastructure programs.
• Comprehensive project controls experience spanning cost, estimating, scheduling, change, risk, forecasting, performance, and reporting.
• Experience managing capital project portfolios, financial performance, baselines, earned value, governance, and executive decision support.
• Hands-on project controls experience and knowledge of Ares PRISM or a comparable integrated solution.
• Advanced Primavera P6 experience and proficiency with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and business reporting applications.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, analytical, organizational, and prioritization skills.

Assets

• P.Eng., PMP, AACE Certified Cost Professional, Planning & Scheduling Professional, or similar designation.
• Master's degree in construction management, engineering management, business administration, or a related field.
• Experience with executive portfolio dashboards, performance metrics, and enterprise controls governance.
• Experience supporting transit, transportation, infrastructure, engineering, or public-sector capital programs.

Work arrangement

• The TTC describes its work approach as flexible and hybrid, combining remote work and in-person collaboration.

Benefits

• Full-time employees may participate in the TTC defined pension plan.
• Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, as well as professional development and learning programs.