Senior Project Controls Specialist

Senior Project Controls Specialist
Contract (12 months) 
Peterborough, Ontario 

About the job:

You will work with Project Managers and Coordinators in project cost and schedule set-up and kick-off activities to ensure our clients PMO governance and best practices. You will provide leadership and support throughout the life of the projects for re-baselining, data checks and internal compliance audits, and consolidated portfolio level reporting and monitoring. You will support process improvement programs including procedure updates, PM and PCS training, implementation of lessons learned and corrective actions.

You will report to the Manager, Project Delivery and work onsite at our Peterborough, Ontario, office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist Project Managers in project set-up and kick-off to align with WEC PMO governance

• Work with Project Managers to develop initial project schedule, lead capacity & resource loading and project baselining activities.

• Support regular project schedule updates, reporting and re-baselining throughout the project

• Support schedule development during the project bid/proposal phase

• Ensure project WBS alignment between SAP cost and P6 schedule and data accuracy to support project EVM

• Conduct periodic project audits to ensure compliance to procedures and identify areas for improvement

• Recommend and support corrective actions and lessons learned implementation to improve overall portfolio performance

• Support development of procedures and standard practice for project cost-schedule integration

• Generate consolidated weekly schedule lookahead reports to support alignment with cross-functional department resource planning

• Prepare regular schedule compliance reports to monitor trending for missed tasks/delays

• Occasional travel to company locations to interface with onsite staff

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in Project Controls and/or Project Management

• Bachelor's degree, Business or Engineering an asset but not required

• PMP is an asset but not required

• Experienced in Primavera (P6) scheduling

• Experienced in Earned Value Management

• Project management experience

• Experience developing processes and procedures

• SAP or other enterprise software experience