Project Controls Lead

Job Description

Integrated Project Controls

• Maintain baselines, progress cut-offs, update cycles, forecasting cadence, and performance review routines.
• Develop integrated Primavera P6 schedules with sound logic, clear critical paths, realistic resourcing, and lookahead planning.
• Manage commitments, actuals, accruals, cost coding, variance analysis, and EAC/ETC forecasts.
• Align progress measurement, schedule updates, cost forecasts, and approved changes.

Change and Commercial Alignment

• Maintain change logs, assess schedule and cost impacts, track approvals, adjust authorized baselines, and integrate changes into forecasts.
• Coordinate with commercial and contract administration teams on substantiation, notices, claims readiness, records, narratives, and audit trails.

Reporting and Stakeholders

• Produce reporting packs covering schedule status, cost performance, progress, KPIs, changes, trends, and risks.
• Provide root-cause analysis, emerging risk and opportunity insights, recovery recommendations, and risk-to-forecast commentary.
• Present status in live and virtual forums and support project, JV, and partner governance meetings.

JV Controls Integration

• Align WBS/CBS structures, cost codes, progress rules, reporting definitions, and cut-off calendars across partners.
• Consolidate partner inputs into a validated single-source-of-truth view and escalate data-quality issues.
• Coordinate controls interfaces across partners, subcontractors, and client stakeholders.

Information and Risk

• Oversee registers for deliverables, correspondence, transmittals, approvals, and closeout documentation.
• Ensure document workflows and controls artifacts support auditability, contract administration, traceability, and retrieval in the CDE.
• Integrate risks into schedule and cost forecasts and improve controls standards, tools, templates, and reporting practices.
• Mentor junior staff and contribute to lessons learned and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Typically 10 to 15 or more years of progressive experience delivering project controls on complex projects.
• Experience with integrated cost, schedule, and reporting responsibilities.
• Experience in JV, partnership, alliance, P3, DB, or PDB environments with multi-party reporting and governance.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6, cost management and forecasting practices, advanced Excel, and dashboard or reporting practices.
• Oracle or similar ERP or cost-system familiarity is an asset.
• Strong information management and document control knowledge and excellent stakeholder communication skills are required.

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