Manager, Project Controls

TTC (Toronto Transit Commission); Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

Defined pension plan

Health, dental, vision

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is seeking a Manager, Project Controls to lead a team overseeing cost, schedule, change management, performance reporting, and governance across a multi-billion-dollar capital program portfolio. You will drive project controls standards, baselines, forecasts, and Earned Value Management while collaborating with senior leadership and project directors.

This role requires extensive experience in project controls for large infrastructure projects, proficiency

Job description

Requisition ID: 14009

Number of Vacancies: 1

Department: Project Management Office (20000008) - Project Controls - Construction (30000567)

Salary Information: 140,176.40 - 175,284.20

Pay Scale Group: 12SA (CAN/S/J/12SA)

Employment Type: Regular

New or Existing Vacancy: Existing

Weekly Hours: 35

Off Days: Saturday and Sunday

Shift: Day

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), North America's third largest transit system and recognized as one of the top places to work in the GTA has introduced its new 2024-2028 TTC Corporate Plan - Moving Toronto, Connecting Communities which continues the TTC’s legacy of delivering service to hundreds of millions of customers a year. The TTC’s new vision and mission statements also help promote the many environmental, social equity and economic benefits that the TTC provides:

Vision: Moving Toronto towards a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous future.

Mission: To serve the needs of transit riders by providing a safe, reliable, efficient, and accessible mass public transit service through a seamless integrated network to create access to opportunity for everyone.

Ready to lead project controls for one of North America's largest transit capital portfolios? Join the TTC's Engineering, Construction & Expansion (ECE) Project Management Office and play a critical leadership role in overseeing cost, schedule, change management, performance reporting, and project controls governance across a multi-billion-dollar capital program portfolio.

This is a unique opportunity to lead a team of project controls professionals supporting more than 600 capital projects while helping shape the future of project delivery through the implementation of enterprise-wide project controls systems, reporting frameworks, and performance management practices.

What You Will Do

As the Manager, Project Controls, you will provide leadership and oversight for integrated project controls functions across the ECE capital portfolio, ensuring consistent application of project controls standards, processes, systems, and governance requirements. Reporting to the Director, Project Controls & Risk, you will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for scheduling, cost management, change management, performance management, and project reporting activities across a diverse portfolio of transit infrastructure projects.

You will oversee the development and maintenance of project and program baselines and ensure that cost, schedule, estimating, and risk management inputs are effectively integrated into portfolio planning and forecasting activities. Working closely with project teams, risk management, estimating, scheduling, and finance stakeholders, you will establish and maintain cost and schedule baselines, forecasts, performance metrics, contingency allocations, and Earned Value Management reporting.

The successful incumbent will direct budget set-up, cost management, commitments, accruals, forecasting, funding tracking, and variance analysis across the portfolio. You will ensure project teams have access to accurate, timely, and reliable project performance information to support effective decision-making, financial stewardship, and delivery accountability.

You will lead portfolio-wide change management and change control activities, coordinating review processes, governance meetings, approvals, and the tracking of changes that impact cost, schedule, scope, funding, and project objectives. You will work closely with Project Directors, Senior Project Managers, and senior leadership to evaluate impacts and support informed decision-making across the portfolio.

A key component of this role will be leading performance management and reporting functions by maintaining centralized project controls systems, monitoring cost and schedule performance trends, analyzing variances, tracking earned value performance, and identifying emerging risks and opportunities.

You will oversee the preparation of executive-level reports, dashboards, portfolio summaries, and decision-support materials for senior leadership and corporate stakeholders.

You will champion the successful adoption of the Enterprise Project Controls Management System (Ares PRISM), helping establish a single source of truth for project baselines, cost control, forecasting, performance measurement, and change management activities across the portfolio.

Through strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and process improvement, you will drive consistency, transparency, and accountability across project delivery teams.

As a people leader, you will build, mentor, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of project controls professionals.

You will foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment while ensuring your team remains focused on delivering value, identifying performance trends, and proactively supporting successful project outcomes.

Your ability to think strategically while also being willing to "zoom in" on project-level challenges will be critical to success in this role.

What Qualifications Do You Bring?

• University degree or post-secondary diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline, combined with progressively responsible experience in project controls, capital project delivery, engineering, or construction environments.
• Significant management experience leading multidisciplinary project controls teams supporting large, complex capital infrastructure projects and programs.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project controls principles and practices, including cost management, estimating, planning and scheduling, change management, risk management, performance management, forecasting, and project reporting.
• Demonstrated experience managing large portfolios of capital projects and providing oversight of cost, schedule, and performance reporting across multiple complex initiatives.
• Strong expertise in cost control and financial performance management, including budget development, forecasting, accruals, commitments, contingency management, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
• Extensive experience establishing and maintaining project baselines, earned value management systems, portfolio reporting frameworks, and project performance measurement processes.
• Proven experience leading change control processes, governance reviews, executive reporting, and decision-support activities within complex project environments.
• Strong understanding of project delivery models, including Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, Construction Manager at Risk, and alternative delivery methodologies.
• Experience working closely with executive leadership, Project Directors, Senior Project Managers, and senior stakeholders to communicate project performance, risks, trends, and recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, mentor, and develop large, high-performing teams while fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and critical thinking abilities with a proven track record of identifying trends, solving complex problems, and making data-driven decisions.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, rapidly shift focus between strategic portfolio oversight and detailed project-level issues, and perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands-on project controls experience with a strong understanding of what drives project performance, project health, and successful delivery outcomes.
• Hands-on knowledge and experience with Ares PRISM or other integrated project controls solution.
• Advanced knowledge and experience using Primavera P6
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and other business applications used for project controls and reporting.
• Strong commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and respectful workplace practices.

Assets

• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), Project Management Professional (PMP), AACE Certified Cost Professional (CCP), Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP), or similar professional designation.
• Master’s degree in construction management, Engineering Management, Business Administration (MBA), or a related field.
• Experience developing executive-level portfolio reporting, dashboards, performance metrics, and enterprise project controls governance frameworks.
• Experience supporting major transit, transportation, infrastructure, engineering, or public-sector capital programs.

What We Offer

• Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging, representation and reflects the needs of the communities we serve.
• A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives and making the most of the benefits of working remotely and purpose-driven in-person collaboration opportunities.
• One of the great benefits of being a full-time TTC employee is becoming a member of TTC defined pension plan.
• A comprehensive package that covers health, dental, vision and more.
• Support for professional development opportunities for all colleagues through a broad range of learning programs that include in-person and online training, leadership development, and support for colleagues’ well-being.

Commitment to EDI

The TTC is committed to upholding the values of equity, diversity, anti-racism and inclusion in the delivery of its services and in its workplaces. The TTC is committed to fostering a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities it serves at all levels of the organization and supports an inclusive environment where diverse employee and community perspectives and experiences bring value to the organization. The TTC encourages applications from all applicants, including members of groups with historical and/or current barriers to equity, including but not limited to, Indigenous, Black and racialized groups, people with disabilities, women and people from the LGBTQIA+ community. The TTC values and supports an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process. Accommodations for applicants are available upon request throughout the recruitment and selection process, including for those who identify as having a disability. Please contact Talent Management at [phone] or [e-mail] . Any information received related to an accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

General Prohibition in Hiring Process

The TTC is also committed to a fair hiring process based on job related qualifications, merit, and abilities. You are expected to write your own materials and provide your own qualifications and experiences during the hiring process. The TTC will not tolerate the use of artificial intelligence or external resources in any of your submissions or responses, or the disclosure of interview questions to others. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

• The use of any artificial intelligence (AI) tool including, but not limited to, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, to generate or produce any information or materials to be submitted or any response to any assessment question or any interview question, is prohibited.
• All information and materials you submit, including resume, cover letter, and assessment responses, are your own original work without the use of any AI tool
• During any interview, your response to any interview question is your own without the use or assistance of any AI tool or any person.
• You will not disseminate or disclose to any person any interview question.

Should you breach the prohibition of AI tool use, or information dissemination or disclosure, you will be in violation of TTC’s hiring process and TTC may withdraw your application and may prohibit you from participation in the TTC hiring process.

Relatives of TTC Employees

The TTC’s policy prohibits relatives of current TTC employees from being hired, assigned, transferred or promoted into positions, where there is a conflict of interest due to a relationship. Should you be selected for an interview, you will be required to disclose the name, relationship and position of any relative who is a current TTC employee.

We thank all applicants for their interest but advise only those selected for an interview will be contacted.