# Project Controls Lead

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Vancouver, BC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $89,800 - $118,900
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Project Controls Lead, you'll partner with Project Managers and technical teams to strengthen cost control, forecasting, scheduling, and performance across Ground Engineering projects in BC & Yukon.

You'll provide clear insight into project performance, identify risks and trends early, guide teams through change and rebaselining, and help strengthen project controls practices through consistent reporting, collaboration, and mentorship.

**Your Impact**

- Lead project controls activities across a portfolio of Ground Engineering projects, supporting effective project delivery and informed decision-making.

- Establish and maintain project controls plans, including budgets, forecasts, accruals, cash flow, schedules, and performance tracking.

- Guide Project Managers through forecasting, rebaselining, and performance recovery in response to budget, schedule, scope, and performance deviations.

- Monitor project performance using planned value, actual cost, earned value, schedule progress, and variance analysis to identify emerging trends and risks.

- Strengthen risk and change management by supporting risk assessments, contingency planning, baseline development, change control, and forecast adjustments.

- Partner with Project Managers and technical teams to validate progress, scope, costs, schedules, and forecasts.

- Deliver clear management reporting through monthly project reports, dashboards, forecasts, and performance insights.

- Mentor junior and intermediate project controls professionals and promote consistent project controls practices across the portfolio.

**The Skills That Set You Apart**

- Diploma or degree in Project Management, Business, Finance, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

- Progressive experience in project controls or cost controls within consulting, engineering, construction, or a comparable project environment.

- Demonstrated experience with budgets, forecasting, accruals, cash flow, cost tracking, variance analysis, and performance reporting.

- Strong proficiency with Oracle financial tools and Microsoft Excel, with the ability to translate project and financial data into meaningful insights.

- Experience using Microsoft Project and/or Primavera P6 for project planning, scheduling, progress measurement, and performance monitoring.

- Practical knowledge of earned value, project baselines, change control, risk management, and performance recovery.

- Experience partnering with Project Managers and technical teams to support project performance and decision-making.

- Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to project controls professionals.

**Why Choose WSP?**

- Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026.

- A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.

- Limitless opportunities start here. Whether it’s across the country or around the globe, we help you tailor your role to match your ambition , because your growth drives ours.

- Flexible work, real balance – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours.

**Compensation**

- $89,800 - $118,900 (AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT)

- $81,900 - $112,800 (MB & ON)

- $81,100 - $107,700 (NB, NL, NS, PE & QC)

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- Business
- Finance
- Data Science
- Engineering
- Oracle financial tools
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Project
- Primavera P6

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