Manager, Project Controls, Technical Services, Pacific Link

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Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.

Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets.
As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system.
With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long‑term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled‑worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.

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Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your strengths in an environment that encourages Safety, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us!

Department: Pacific Link

Reports to: Director, Project Services

Worker Type: Employee

Schedule Type: Full-Time

Work Setting: In-office

Reporting to the Director, Project Services, the Manager, Project Controls, Technical Services leads the project controls capability required to support the development and delivery of Pacific Link. The Manager establishes and maintains integrated standards, systems and controls for cost, schedule, estimating, progress measurement, change, risk and performance reporting; provides reliable analysis and forecasts to support leadership and governance decisions; and ensures readiness for stage‑gate and assurance reviews.

Working across technical, delivery, partner and corporate interfaces, the role builds a capable controls team, establishes clear accountabilities and drives consistent, disciplined and transparent performance management across the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Project Controls Strategy and Governance

• Develop and implement the Pacific Link project controls strategy, framework, standards, procedures and operating rhythms in alignment with approved governance and delivery requirements.
• Establish fit‑for‑purpose controls across cost management, planning and scheduling, estimating, progress measurement, change management, risk, reporting, close‑out and information stewardship.
• Define decision rights, approval thresholds, accountabilities, escalation pathways and minimum control requirements for project teams, partners, contractors and service providers.
• Provide project controls assurance for stage‑gate, checkpoint and governance reviews, confirming that required deliverables, baselines, forecasts and supporting evidence are complete and decision‑ready.

Integrated Cost, Schedule and Performance Management

• Lead the development, integration and maintenance of approved cost and schedule baselines aligned to scope, work breakdown structures, contracting strategies and key milestones.
• Oversee cost…