Manager, Project Controls

Career opportunity

Project controls and portfolio oversight

• Ensure consistent project-controls standards, processes, systems, and governance across the portfolio.
• Oversee project and program baselines and integrate cost, schedule, estimating, and risk inputs into portfolio plans and forecasts.
• Establish cost and schedule baselines, forecasts, performance metrics, contingency allocations, and Earned Value Management reporting.
• Direct budget setup, cost management, commitments, accruals, forecasting, funding tracking, and variance analysis.
• Ensure project teams have reliable performance information for decisions, financial stewardship, and delivery accountability.

Change, performance, and reporting

• Lead change-control reviews, governance meetings, approvals, and tracking of changes to cost, schedule, scope, funding, and objectives.
• Work with project directors, senior project managers, and senior leaders to evaluate impacts and support decisions.
• Maintain centralized controls systems, monitor trends, analyze variances, track earned value, and identify risks and opportunities.
• Oversee executive reports, dashboards, portfolio summaries, and decision-support materials.
• Champion adoption of the Ares PRISM Enterprise Project Controls Management System.

People leadership

• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of project-controls professionals.
• Promote collaboration, consistency, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement across project teams.

Qualifications

• Degree or post-secondary diploma in engineering, construction management, project management, business administration, or a related discipline, plus progressively responsible relevant experience.
• Significant management experience leading multidisciplinary project-controls teams on large, complex capital infrastructure programs.
• Comprehensive project-controls knowledge, including cost, estimating, planning and scheduling, change, risk, performance, forecasting, and reporting.
• Experience with large capital-project portfolios, baselines, earned value, reporting frameworks, and performance measurement.
• Strong financial controls experience, including budgets, forecasts, accruals, commitments, contingency, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
• Experience leading change control, governance reviews, executive reporting, and decision support.
• Knowledge of Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, Construction Manager at Risk, and alternative delivery methods.
• Experience communicating performance, risks, trends, and recommendations to executives, project directors, and senior project managers.
• Demonstrated team leadership and strong communication, presentation, negotiation, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Hands-on project-controls experience, integrated controls solution knowledge, advanced Primavera P6, and proficiency with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.

Tools and systems

• Hands-on experience with Ares PRISM or another integrated project-controls solution is required.
• Advanced Primavera P6 knowledge and experience are required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and other project-controls and reporting applications is required.

What TTC offers

• The TTC describes a flexible hybrid work approach, pension membership for full-time employees, health and other benefits, and professional development opportunities.

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