Project Controls Manager

Location: Pickering, Ontario
Employment Type: Contract
Reporting To: Program Manager

Position Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced Project Controls Manager to oversee project controls activities supporting ongoing construction and project execution programs.

Reporting to the Program Manager, this individual will be responsible for maintaining effective cost, schedule, reporting, and change management processes while supporting estimating, construction, and project delivery teams.

The successful candidate will provide leadership to project controls personnel, ensure compliance with contractual and organizational standards, and support the successful delivery of complex projects through accurate forecasting, performance monitoring, and proactive corrective action.

Key Responsibilities

Project Controls Management & Governance

• Oversee the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of project cost and controls systems.

• Ensure assigned projects comply with contractual requirements, established project controls standards, and company policies.

• Maintain alignment between project estimates and approved cost and schedule baselines.

• Lead the conversion of project bids into complete and accurate project baselines within the company’s project controls system.

• Support the establishment of project accounting structures, including cost codes, job cost procedures, and rules of credit.

Planning, Scheduling & Cost Control

• Oversee the development and maintenance of detailed, resource-loaded project schedules using Primavera P6.

• Review project cost, scheduling, progress, and productivity reports to assess performance against established baselines.

• Apply earned value management principles, including Schedule Performance Index (SPI) and Cost Performance Index (CPI), to monitor project performance.

• Identify performance deviations and recommend corrective actions to maintain cost, schedule, and productivity objectives, including performance factors around 1.0.

• Prepare and maintain project cash flow forecasts.

Contract Administration & Change Management

• Review project contracts to ensure invoicing, reporting, change management, and other contractual obligations are properly incorporated into project controls processes.

• Establish, maintain, and enforce change management procedures in accordance with contract requirements and Shoreline’s established policies.

• Train project personnel on applicable change management processes and responsibilities.

• Ensure contractual project controls requirements are addressed throughout project setup, execution, reporting, and closeout.

Performance Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement

• Prepare and oversee project status reporting for internal leadership and customers.

• Produce project dashboards, earned value reports, progress updates, and other required performance reporting.

• Analyze scheduling, cost, and productivity information with project controls leads and delivery teams.

• Participate in internal management and customer project status meetings.

• Develop customized reporting as required by customers or internal stakeholders.

Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Supervise, mentor, and provide direction to project controls planning and scheduling personnel.

• Ensure project teams understand project controls procedures, expectations, and individual responsibilities.

• Support improvements and modifications to Shoreline’s project controls policies and guidelines.

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• 10–15 years of relevant professional experience.

• College diploma, university degree in a related discipline, or equivalent applicable work experience.

• Demonstrated knowledge and practical application of project management and project controls principles.

• Strong understanding of earned value management methodologies.

• Applied experience in cost engineering and cost control.

• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a demanding project or construction environment.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate with employees and management at all levels.

Security & Compliance

The successful candidate must complete the client’s background screening and security clearance process, including reference checks and verification of previous residences, employment, education, and other relevant information.

Candidates holding valid OPG security clearance are strongly preferred.