Project Controls Lead

Company Description

Ready to take the next step in your career? Join Egis and be part of our exciting growth across Canada. As a member of our global team of 23,500+ engineers, architects, scientists and consultants, you'll help deliver some of the country's most impactful infrastructure, transportation, buildings and energy projects while building a career with global opportunities and local impact.

Job Description

The Senior Project Controller is a senior, hands-on project controls professional responsible for delivering integrated controls across cost, schedule, progress measurement, change, risk, and information management/document control interfaces on Major Projects.

The Senior Project Controller operates effectively in complex delivery environments -including JVs/partnerships, alliances, P3/DB/PDB -and supports multi-party governance by aligning controls definitions, cut-off calendars, and reporting across partner teams. This role is expected to be a “controls integrator”: ensuring cost, schedule, and information flows stay coherent, auditable, and useful.

Key responsibilities

Integrated project controls delivery (cost, schedule, progress)

• Establish and maintain integrated controls routines for assigned projects: baseline management, progress cut-offs, update cycles, forecasting cadence, and performance review rhythms.
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules (e.g., Primavera P6) with strong logic integrity, critical path clarity, realistic resourcing assumptions, and effective lookahead planning.
• Manage cost control processes: commitments, actuals, accruals, cost coding alignment, variance analysis, and periodic forecasting (EAC/ETC) with clear assumptions and traceability.
• Implement progress measurement rules aligned to contract requirements and project realities; ensure schedule updates and cost forecasts reflect physical progress and approved changes.

Change control and commercial alignment

• Execute and maintain the change control process: change capture, log governance, schedule/cost impact assessment, approvals tracking, baseline adjustments (when authorized), and integration into forecasts.
• Coordinate with commercial/contract administration to support substantiation, notices, and claims readiness by maintaining defensible records, narratives, and audit trails tied to controls outputs.

Reporting, performance insights, and stakeholder management

• Produce monthly/periodic reporting packs (internal leadership, client, and JV/partner requirements as applicable) covering schedule status, cost performance, progress, KPIs, change status, trends, and risk considerations.
• Provide actionable performance insights: root-cause analysis, emerging risks/opportunities, recovery recommendations, and forward-looking risk-to-forecast commentary.
• Present status in live and virtual forums; support governance meetings including project performance reviews and JV/partner reporting coordination sessions.

JV / partnership controls integration

• Support integrated reporting in JV/partner settings by aligning and reconciling: WBS/CBS structures, cost codes, progress rules, reporting definitions, and cut-off calendars.
• Consolidate partner inputs into a coherent “single source of truth” view; validate data quality, identify disconnects, and escalate issues through established governance paths.
• Participate in interface management across partner organizations, subcontractors, and client stakeholders to ensure consistent controls practices and timely data flow.

Information management and document control interface

• Oversee project information management practices required to support controls, including registers for key deliverables, correspondence, transmittals, approvals, and closeout documentation.
• Coordinate with Project Administrators/document control resources to ensure document workflows support auditability and contract administration (e.g., change backup, approvals, contemporaneous records).
• Ensure controls artifacts are appropriately stored, traceable, and retrievable in accordance with project requirements and the common data environment (CDE) framework.

Risk integration and continuous improvement

• Support risk integration into controls outputs by ensuring risk items are reflected in schedule/cost forecasts where required and that risk/change/trend narratives are coherent.
• Apply the Project Controls Playbook and templates; identify gaps and recommend improvements to standards, tools, and reporting practices.
• Contribute to lessons learned and knowledge transfer across projects; mentor junior project controls staff and support capability development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Typically 10–15+ years of progressive experience delivering project controls on complex projects, including integrated cost + schedule + reporting responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience working within JV/partnership/Alliance/P3/DB/PDB environments with multi-party reporting and governance interfaces.
• Proficiency in:
  • Scheduling tools (e.g., Primavera P6)
  • Cost management and forecasting practices; familiarity with ERP/cost systems (e.g., Oracle) is an asset
  • Microsoft Office (advanced Excel expected) and dashboard/reporting practices
• Strong understanding of information management/document control processes in major project environments and how they support auditability and contract administration.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort presenting performance narratives to senior internal stakeholders, partners, and clients.

Additional Information

Egis Canada is an equal opportunities employer offering a competitive salary and benefits to those with the skills suited to the needs of our clients. The salary range advertised may exceed the range based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates.

This role is eligible for a referral bonus in line with the Referral Program. If you have been referred, please provide the name of the employee who has referred you at the time of your application.

At Egis, we embrace innovation to tackle challenges and utilize AI in our recruitment process under stringent ethics and compliance policies and in alignment with our values of being a Responsible Company, a People First Company and a Creative Company. Committed to diversity, growth and collaboration, we may leverage AI to support the recruitment process.