Manager, Project Controls

WSP USA; Toronto; On-site; CAD 135,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP is seeking a seasoned Project Controls Manager to shape and deliver controls for Canada’s Rail & Transit projects. You will manage budgeting, scheduling, and cost controls, ensuring governance and clear reporting to executives.

The role requires coordinating with clients, planners, and senior stakeholders while leveraging Primavera P6 and advanced Excel. The position emphasizes risk management, WBS coding, and sub-consultant financial oversight, with opportunities for career growth in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in Project Controls roles.
• Experience delivering major, multidisciplinary infrastructure projects (Rail & Transit).
• Post-secondary diploma/degree in project management, finance, business, or related field.
• PMP designation required.

Responsibilities

• Lead project controls across major Rail & Transit programs, ensuring cost, schedule, and scope alignment.
• Establish governance and interface between clients, project teams, and Project Controls leadership.
• Drive budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, earned value management, and financial reporting.

Skills

Project controls

Budgeting

Forecasting

Earned value management

Financial reporting

WBS / coding (Primavera P6)

PMP designation

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Post-secondary diploma/degree in project management/finance/business

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

Project cost estimating tools

Job description

What if you could redefine what’s possible? With us, you can.

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With an unmatched breadth and depth of engineering, advisory and science‑based expertise, our global minds unite to power local solutions.

We are pathfinders and impact makers.

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The Opportunity – Build the Future with Us

As a Project Controls Manager within our Transportation Systems – Rail & Transit team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping some of Canada’s most complex and transformative infrastructure projects. Reporting to the Director, Project Controls , you will lead project controls excellence across major rail and transit programs—driving financial discipline, schedule certainty, risk visibility, and informed decision‑making that enables successful delivery.

Your Impact

• Lead project controls functions across major, complex Rail & Transit programs, ensuring cost, schedule, and scope alignment
• Establish strong project governance and act as a trusted interface between clients, project teams, and internal Project Controls leadership
• Drive budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, earned value management, and financial reporting with accuracy and insight
• Develop, manage, and maintain baseline budgets, schedules, and work breakdown structures to control hours and expenditures
• Identify risks, opportunities, and deviations early, proposing practical mitigation and recovery strategies
• Lead WBS and project coding structures in Primavera P6, collaborating closely with planners and schedulers
• Prepare and present clear, concise operational reporting to senior and executive leadership to support strategic decision‑making
• Review and approve client billings, track payments, and oversee sub‑consultant financial performance

The Skills That Set You Apart

• 10+ years of progressive experience in Project Controls Manager or Project Controls Lead roles
• Proven experience delivering major, multidisciplinary, complex infrastructure projects, ideally within Rail & Transit
• Post‑secondary diploma or degree in project management, finance, business, or a related field
• PMP designation (required)
• Advanced expertise in Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, and project cost estimating tools
• Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills
• Ability to thrive in fast‑paced environments, balancing multiple priorities amid change and ambiguity

Why Choose WSP?

We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. The brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe call WSP home.

• Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026
• A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach
• Limitless opportunities start here. Whether it’s across the country or around the globe, we help you tailor your role to match your ambition — because your growth drives ours
• Flexible work, real balance – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours

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Compensation

AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $147,500 – $195,400

MB & ON: $134,600 – $184,600

NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $133,200 – $176,900

Disclosure:

The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Ready to Shape the Future?

Discover how you can make a lasting impact at WSP—where your expertise helps move communities forward.

At WSP, we exist to shape communities to advance humanity.

It’s why we bring people together who are wired to solve complex challenges - engineers, scientists, advisors, and technical experts who are driven by a common passion - to redefine what’s possible and shape what comes next. We are Visioneers.

As one of the world’s leading professional services firms, we partner with clients across transportation, infrastructure, environment, buildings, energy, water, mining and metals. We pair deep local knowledge with global insights to pioneer solutions designed to leave a lasting, positive impact.

At WSP, you’ll join a community of brilliant minds that push boundaries every day - applying deep expertise and fuelling innovation to help create a more connected and resilient future. Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and you are encouraged to bring your authentic self to work. We empower our people to collaborate across disciplines, challenge the status quo, and shape a career with purpose.

Join us.

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations. Full details here (https://www.wsp.com/en-ca/corporate/ca/health-safety) .

Some safety‑sensitive positions involve fieldwork and may include work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Full details here (https://www.wsp.com/en-ca/careers/notice-to-staffing-agencies) .