Project Controls Analyst

Role overview

Project controls responsibilities

• Control project budgets, committed costs, and forecasts at completion.
• Apply Earned Value Management principles and indicators to assess actual project performance.
• Analyze physical progress and its effects on costs and schedules.
• Prepare EAC and ETC forecasts with project managers.
• Produce integrated cost, schedule, and progress analyses; identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Analyze baseline variances, recommend corrective actions, and support cost and schedule impact assessments for changes.
• Maintain quality and traceability of project control data and align cost data with schedules.
• Participate in project reviews, apply WSP control practices, improve tools and standards, and support other project control staff.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of project control or project cost control experience.
• Engineering-project experience is mandatory.
• Knowledge of EVM and its PV, EV, AC, CPI, and SPI indicators is required.
• Understand budgeting, forecasting, baselines, and variance analysis.
• Strong Microsoft Excel proficiency for analysis, tracking, and modeling.
• Able to work on complex multidisciplinary projects; demonstrate rigor, analytical ability, organization, attention to detail, communication, and collaboration.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Additional assets

• Heavy industrial project experience is a strong asset.
• Primavera P6, Power BI, InEight, or similar tool knowledge is an asset.

Compensation

• Salary ranges vary by province or territory: AB, BC, NT, NU, SK, and YK: $89,800–$118,900; MB and ON: $81,900–$112,800; NB, NL, NS, PEI, and QC: $81,100–$107,700.
• Final salary may vary based on qualifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, and business needs; no pay cadence is specified.

Work environment

• WSP describes flexible work and encourages work-life balance; the posting does not specify a particular remote or hybrid arrangement.