Description
We are seeking a Lead Project Planner to join our Energy and Process group. As a Lead Project Controller, you will play a key role in driving successful project delivery through effective planning, cost control, forecasting, change management, risk management, and performance reporting.
You will report to the Project Controls Manager and work closely with Project Managers and multidisciplinary project teams to establish and maintain robust project controls throughout the full project lifecycle. Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading project controls activities across the project lifecycle, integrating cost, schedule, change, risk, forecasting, and performance measurement.
- Establishing and maintaining project control baselines, including work breakdown structures, budgets, schedules, progress measurement, and forecasting frameworks.
- Monitoring and analyzing project performance, identifying cost and schedule variances, trends, emerging risks, and potential impacts to project outcomes.
- Developing accurate forecasts and project controls reporting that provide Project Managers and leadership with clear insight into current performance and anticipated outcomes.
- Leading and supporting change management activities, including assessment of trends and scope changes and evaluation of their cost and schedule impacts.
- Collaborating with engineering, procurement, construction, finance, and other project functions to maintain consistent, integrated project information and reporting.
- Supporting project risk management by identifying project controls risks and maintaining appropriate inputs to project risk registers and mitigation plans.
- Mentoring and guiding project controls team members while supporting continuous improvement of project controls processes, tools, and practices.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Significant experience in project controls, including cost control, planning and scheduling, forecasting, progress measurement, change management, and project reporting on complex projects.
- Strong experience supporting EPC or similarly complex multidisciplinary projects throughout the project lifecycle.
- Advanced knowledge of project planning and scheduling principles, including hands-on experience with Primavera P6.
- Strong understanding of cost and schedule integration, variance analysis, forecasting, management of change, and Earned Value Management principles.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain project baselines, WBS structures, forecasts, progress measurement systems, and project controls reporting.
- Proven ability to translate complex project information into clear insights and recommendations for Project Managers and project leadership.
- Effective leadership and collaboration skills, with experience coordinating project controls activities and mentoring less-experienced team members.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary project teams and with internal and external clients.
In terms of compensation, the salary range for this position is:
- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $122,900 - $162,800
- MB & ON: $112,100 - $154,400
- NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $111,000 - $147,400