Description
As a Lead Project Controller at WSP, you will provide project controls leadership across complex engineering and construction programs, helping project teams maintain strong visibility and control over cost, schedule, forecasting, change, risk, and overall project performance.
This role is ideal for an experienced project controls professional who understands the full project lifecycle, from detailed engineering through procurement and construction, and can translate project data into clear insights that support successful delivery.
U.S. regulatory experience is an asset, and experience supporting major projects in data centres, warehouses and commercial developments, power and energy, and/or solar and renewable energy is highly desirable.
The position may be based anywhere in Canada, with a preference for candidates located in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, or Montréal.
Your Impact
- Lead project controls activities across complex engineering, procurement, and construction projects, establishing robust cost, schedule, forecasting, and performance controls.
- Manage budgets, forecasts, and cost performance, analyzing variances and trends, identifying emerging risks, and recommending corrective actions to support project outcomes.
- Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) and other project controls methodologies to measure performance, improve visibility, and support informed decision-making.
- Integrate engineering, procurement, and construction information into project controls, providing clear visibility of performance throughout the complete project lifecycle.
- Lead change control and evaluate commercial impacts, ensuring project changes and their cost, schedule, and contractual implications are effectively identified, assessed, tracked, and reported.
- Partner with project management, engineering, procurement, construction, and commercial teams to strengthen project performance, reporting, forecasting, and decision-making.
- Lead and develop project controls professionals, supporting resource planning, quality reviews, knowledge sharing, and consistent delivery across projects.
- Drive continuous improvement in project controls processes, tools, reporting, and governance, helping build strong and consistent project delivery practices.
The Skills That Set You Apart
- 10–15 years of progressive project controls experience within complex engineering, procurement, and construction environments, with significant experience leading project controls on major projects.
- U.S. regulatory experience is an asset, with demonstrated experience supporting complex projects subject to applicable U.S. regulatory requirements.
- Strong full-lifecycle project experience, spanning detailed engineering, procurement, and construction. Hands-on experience supporting projects through these phases is highly desirable.
- Relevant sector experience in data centres, warehouses and commercial developments, power and energy, and/or solar and renewable energy projects is highly desirable.
- Advanced cost and project controls expertise, including budgeting, forecasting, variance and trend analysis, change control, cost reporting, and Earned Value Management (EVM).
- Strong construction and commercial understanding, including experience working with construction, procurement, and commercial teams and understanding the impact of contracts, procurement, project changes, and construction progress on project performance.
- Demonstrated project controls leadership experience, including leading, mentoring, or developing professionals, reviewing deliverables, and promoting consistent project controls practices.
- A university degree in engineering, finance, project management, or a related discipline. Knowledge of AACE International and PMI frameworks, as well as relevant professional certifications, is a strong asset. Bilingualism is an asset as the individual will frequently be involved in projects with English-speaking clients and partners outside Quebec.
Compensation
- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $89,800 – $118,900
- MB & ON: $81,900 – $112,800
- NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $81,100 – $107,700