Director, Project Controls – Major Projects

Director, Project Controls – Major Projects

• Full-time
• Business Line:
  Country function
• Type of contract:
  Permanent contract
• Service Line:
  Country CBD
• Job Family:
  Project Planning
• Profession:
  Project Planning Manager
• Compensation: CAD 160,000 - CAD 180,000 - yearly

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The Director, Project Controls is the functional lead accountable for establishing and scaling a best‑in‑class project controls capability across the Major Projects portfolio. This role provides senior‑level leadership and hands‑on support for schedule, cost, progress measurement, forecasting, reporting, change control, and controls governance, ensuring projects are delivered predictably, transparently, and in accordance with contractual requirements.

The Director operates in complex delivery models – including joint ventures (JVs), partnerships, alliances, P3/DB/PDB, and multi‑party client environments – aligning controls practices across partner organizations to enable integrated, defensible reporting and performance management. This is a foundational leadership role responsible for building the operating model, tools, standards, and team required to mature the function company‑wide.

• Own the Major Projects Project Controls strategy, operating model, and maturity roadmap (people, process, systems, data governance).
• Establish portfolio‑wide minimum standards for schedule, cost control, forecasting, progress measurement, change control, and reporting, ensuring consistency, auditability, and decision usefulness.
• Ensure project controls deliverables meet contractual requirements (MSAs, client specifications, JV agreements, third‑party assurance requirements as applicable).
• Define the governance cadence: baseline approvals, update cycles, cut‑off rules, performance reviews, forecast discipline, and corrective action tracking.

• Provide executive oversight of integrated master schedules and project schedules, ensuring logic integrity, critical path reliability, resourcing realism, and effective recovery planning.
• Standardize progress measurement rules and performance measurement methods appropriate to delivery model and contract requirements (including EVM/EVMS‑light and full EVMS where required).
• Lead portfolio performance reviews (schedule/cost/KPIs), identify systemic issues and trends, and drive disciplined corrective actions with Project Directors/Managers.

• Ensure rigorous cost control and forecasting (EAC/ETC) with clear traceability to progress, change, risk, and productivity assumptions.
• Integrate project controls outputs with commercial/contract administration (change management, substantiation, notices, claims support), ensuring controls data is defensible and aligned to contract positions.
• Establish portfolio reporting that clearly separates base scope performance from approved changes, trends, and risk allowances.

• Lead the alignment of controls practices across JV/partner organizations, including WBS/CBS structures, cost codes,…