Project Controls Specialist - Integrated Cost Control & Planning​/Scheduling

Project Controls Specialist - Integrated Cost Control & Planning / Scheduling

• Full-time
• Compensation: CAD 100,000 - CAD 130,000 - yearly

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Reporting to the Project Controls Lead, the Project Controls Specialist owns the integrated project controls function — uniting cost control and planning/scheduling into a single, coherent view of project performance. The successful candidate will maintain the cost-loaded master schedule, manage budgets and forecasting, apply Earned Value Management (EVM) across both cost and schedule, and translate complex data into clear, actionable insight for project leadership and stakeholders.

Working in collaborative and Integrated Project Delivery environments, the incumbent partners with Chandos and joint-venture teams, trade partners, commercial, procurement, and finance groups, and owner representatives to proactively mitigate cost and schedule risk in support of safe, on-time, on-budget delivery.

This role supports Chandos’ most complex and nationally significant capital programs. Chandos is supporting the delivery of a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project in the National Capital Region, a large-scale, multi-phase program with complex stakeholder, security, and coordination requirements. Specific project assignment will be confirmed during the recruitment process.

Planning & Scheduling

• Master Schedule Management: Develop, maintain, and manage the integrated master construction schedule in Primavera P6 — logic-tied, cost- and resource-loaded, and reflective of actual field progress and critical-path impacts.
• Schedule Integration: Ensure compliance and execution of sub-trade and partner schedules, directing full integration and coordination across all project schedules, including scope-specific schedules for bid packages.
• Resource & Progress Management: Oversee resource allocation and leveling; validate weekly and monthly progress against baseline and milestones, and develop recovery schedules and mitigation plans as required.
• Collaborative Planning: Contribute to Target Value Design and collaborative (pull / last-planner) planning sessions within IPD and lean delivery environments.

Cost Control

• Cost Engineering & Budget Management: Own budget formulation, cost coding, commitment tracking, and cost-to-complete forecasting, maintaining strict fiscal discipline across the project lifecycle.
• Cash Flow & Forecasting: Develop and maintain cash flow forecasts, contingency and management-reserve tracking, and contingency draw analysis
• Commercial & Procurement Alignment: Interface with commercial, procurement, and finance teams to align commitments, progress billings, subcontractor evaluations, and final forecasting.

Integrated Performance, Change & Risk

• Earned Value Management: Establish and maintain EVM baselines, measure cost and schedule performance (CPI/SPI), analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Change Management: Assess the cumulative cost and schedule impacts of trends, scope variances, and field changes through the change control process, including delay analysis appropriate to the contract type.
• Risk Analysis: Participate in risk register…