Director, Project Controls – Major Projects

Egis; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure firm is seeking a Director of Project Controls in Toronto, Canada. This role involves establishing best practices for project controls across major projects, providing senior-level leadership and ensuring effective project delivery. Ideal candidates must have over 15 years of experience in project controls and the ability to thrive in complex delivery models. Competitive salary and benefits offered, emphasizing growth opportunities within a diverse team.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Referral bonus

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in project controls.
• Significant experience in JV/partnership environments.
• Advanced proficiency with project controls systems and tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Major Projects Project Controls strategy.
• Implement portfolio-wide cost control and forecasting.
• Oversee risk management and change control processes.

Skills

Project controls expertise

Leadership in project environments

Effective communication

Risk management skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Primavera P6

ERP/enterprise cost systems

Job description

About Us

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About the Role

Role summary

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.

Key accountabilities:

Functional leadership and controls governance

• 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.

Portfolio planning, scheduling, and performance management

• 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.

Cost control, forecasting, and commercial alignment

• 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.

JV / partnership integration and multi‑party reporting

• Lead the alignment of controls practices across JV/partner organizations, including WBS/CBS structures, cost codes, progress measurement rules, reporting definitions, and cut‑off calendars to ensure “one version of the truth.”
• Own the integrated reporting approach for JV governance (steerco/board packs), client reporting, and any third‑party reporting requirements, ensuring consistency, reconciliation, and auditability.
• Define and oversee partner interface protocols for controls: data exchanges, validation checks, reconciliation processes, issue escalation paths, and performance deep dives.

Risk and change management

• Own the Major Projects risk management framework and governance cadence, ensuring risk identification, assessment, and mitigation planning are embedded in project execution and decision‑making.
• Establish minimum standards for risk registers (taxonomy, scoring, owners, update frequency) and ensure consistent application across projects and JV/partner environments.
• Integrate risk into schedule and cost forecasting (including contingency and confidence commentary where required), ensuring clear traceability between risk drivers and forecast movements.
• Lead periodic risk reviews with Project Directors/Managers and key partners; surface emerging threats/opportunities early and drive corrective actions and escalation through the appropriate governance forums.
• Ensure risk records and supporting evidence are audit‑ready and aligned with contract/commercial requirements (e.g., change substantiation, claims defensibility, and reporting obligations).

• Own the portfolio change control framework: change capture, impact assessment, approvals, baseline management, and integration into forecasts.
• Ensure risk integration into schedule and cost forecasts, including consistent risk categorization, quantification expectations, and links between risk registers and controls outputs.
• Establish internal assurance practices (quality checks, audit trails, periodic reviews) to validate the integrity of controls data and reporting.

Systems, data governance, and continuous improvement

• Select, implement, and govern project controls tools and reporting layers (e.g., scheduling tools such as Primavera P6, cost systems/ERP interfaces, dashboards), including data definitions, permissions, and quality standards.
• Develop and maintain a Project Controls Playbook (policies, procedures, templates, minimum standards by phase) and ensure adoption through training and compliance checks.
• Drive continuous improvement: lessons learned, benchmarked best practices, standard work, and ongoing enhancements to predictability and reporting efficiency.

Document control and information management oversight

• Set minimum standards for document control and information management on Major Projects (transmittals, registers, drawing/document workflows, closeout requirements), ensuring alignment with client/JV requirements and auditability.
• Oversee the delegation model and integration between project controls and project administration/document control resources.

Leadership, team building, and capability development

• Build and lead a high‑performing project controls team (schedulers, cost analysts, reporting/BI, project admin/document control interfaces as applicable), including workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, and performance management.
• Establish a community of practice and training program to develop project controls capability across projects and to coach Project Managers/discipline leads in using controls outputs for proactive decision‑making.
• Act as a senior advisor to Major Projects leadership on forecasting confidence, emerging risks/opportunities, and intervention strategies.

What do we need from you

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience in project engineering, field engineering, project controls, or PMO environments.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in project controls across cost, schedule, scope, performance reporting, and governance, with demonstrated leadership at a portfolio/function level.
• Significant experience in JV/partnership/Alliance/P3/DB/PDB delivery environments, including integrated reporting and multi‑party interface management.
• Advanced proficiency with project controls systems and tooling (Microsoft Office Suite; scheduling platforms such as Primavera P6).
• Experience with ERP/enterprise cost systems (e.g., Oracle) and reporting/analytics implementations is an asset.
• Strong executive communication skills (written and verbal), with ability to deliver clear performance narratives and recommendations to senior internal leaders, partners, and clients.
• Responsible to lead bid estimation and refinement in collaboration with JV partners and technical leaders.

What's in it for you?

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.