Project Controls Specialist - Cost Control

Project Controls Specialist - Cost Control

• Full-time
• Compensation: CAD 100000 - CAD 120000 - yearly

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Reporting to the Project Controls Manager within the project management team, the Project Controls Specialist (Cost Control) owns the day-to-day cost-control function on the ANMRC project. The incumbent integrates cost engineering, budget management, change control, and Earned Value Management (EVM) to deliver accurate, data-driven forecasting and performance analytics. Working within an IPD environment, the specialist partners with Chandos and Joint-Venture teams, commercial managers, procurement, finance, and CNL stakeholders to maintain strict fiscal discipline and proactively mitigate cost risk in support of on-budget delivery.

The Advanced Nuclear Materials Research Centre (ANMRC) is the largest single capital investment in the revitalization of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ (CNL) Chalk River campus. The 10,000-square-metre research complex will house 23 laboratories, 12 shielded hot cells for post-irradiation examination of small modular reactor (SMR) and next-generation nuclear fuels, and glovebox facilities supporting advanced fuel fabrication. As Canada’s largest Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) project, the ANMRC is being delivered collaboratively by CNL together with the CBS Joint Venture (Chandos Construction, Bird Construction, and M.

Sullivan & Son) and the broaderIPD team, using Target Value Design to align objectives, constraints, and goals. This is a rare opportunity to bring world-class cost-control discipline to a nationally significant nuclear science facility

• Cost Engineering & Budget Management: Own budget formulation, cost coding, commitment tracking, and cost-to-complete forecasting, maintaining strict fiscal discipline across the project lifecycle.
• Earned Value Management: Establish and maintain EVM baselines, measure cost and schedule performance (CPI/SPI), analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Cash Flow & Forecasting: Develop and maintain project cash flow forecasts, contingency and management-reserve tracking, and contingency draw analysis.
• Change Management (Cost Impacts): Assess the cumulative cost impact of trends, scope variances, and field changes through the change control process prior to review.
• Cost Reporting & Analytics: Compile and distribute cost reports, dashboards, and executive KPIs, translating complex cost data into clear, actionable insights for project leadership and IPD stakeholders.
• Cost Risk Analysis: Participate in risk register reviews and quantitative cost risk assessments to identify and proactively address financial exposure and bottlenecks.
• Commercial & Procurement Alignment: Interface with commercial, procurement, and finance teams to align commitments, progress billings, subcontractor evaluations, and final forecasting.
• Schedule Coordination: Partner with the scheduling team to ensure the master schedule (Primavera P6) is cost-loaded and aligned with the cost baseline, critical path, and actual field progress.
• On-Site Cost Validation: Perform on-site data validation during scheduled site weeks to ensure the accuracy and integrity of reported cost and progress.

Work arrangement
:
This is a hybrid position that follows a rotational schedule of one week on-site at Chalk River, Ontario, followed by three weeks working remotely. On-site weeks support cost…