Project Controls Director

AtkinsRéalis Canada Inc.; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis Canada Inc. seeks a highly experienced Project Controls Director to lead integrated project controls on a major capital infrastructure project in Canada.

You will align scope, schedule, cost, risk, change, and reporting with clients, delivery partners and stakeholders, driving data-driven decisions and governance. You will develop an integrated controls framework, oversee forecasting, executive reporting and performance metrics, and lead a multidisciplinary controls team across

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience on large capital infrastructure projects.
• Proficiency in integrated planning, scheduling, cost management, risk and opportunity management, change control, forecasting, and executive reporting.
• Ability to establish integrated project controls processes across multiple organizations with shared baselines and reporting.
• Aptitude for influencing senior stakeholders and facilitating collaborative decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated project controls across the project leadership team.
• Develop and govern a single integrated project controls framework, including baselines and data standards.
• Facilitate planning, schedule development, milestone alignment, and forecasting across organizations.
• Lead management of cost, schedule, risk, opportunity, change and performance reporting.
• Provide performance insights, scenario analysis, and option evaluations for decision-making.
• Develop dashboards, reports and executive presentations as a common source of truth.
• Mentor and develop multidisciplinary project controls teams and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Integrated planning

Scheduling

Cost management

Risk management

Opportunity management

Change control

Forecasting

Executive reporting

Data visualization

Stakeholder influence

Tools

PMIS platforms

Common data environments

Data visualization tools

Job description

Job Description

Overview

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a highly experienced Project Controls Director to lead integrated project controls on a major capital infrastructure project delivered through a collaborative delivery model. As a key member of the integrated project leadership team, you will work alongside clients, delivery partners, designers, contractors, and stakeholders to align scope, schedule, cost, risk, change, commercial performance, and reporting.

This role offers the opportunity to shape project outcomes through data-driven decision-making, transparent governance, and collaborative leadership. If you are passionate about delivering complex engineering and infrastructure projects while driving innovation, accountability, and project excellence, we want to hear from you.

Your Role

• Lead integrated project controls across the project leadership team, ensuring alignment between clients, delivery partners, designers, contractors, and commercial teams.
• Develop and govern a single integrated project controls framework, including baselines, data standards, reporting processes, and accountability structures.
• Facilitate integrated planning, schedule development, milestone alignment, and forecasting activities across multiple organizations.
• Lead the management of cost, schedule, risk, opportunity, change, and performance reporting to support project objectives and key performance indicators.
• Provide performance insights, scenario analysis, and option evaluations to support evidence-based decision-making and project optimization.
• Develop integrated dashboards, reports, and executive presentations that provide a common source of truth for project teams and governance forums.
• Lead, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary project controls teams while driving continuous improvement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.

About You

• Ability to lead project controls functions on large, complex capital or infrastructure projects with a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency in integrated planning and scheduling, cost management, risk and opportunity management, change control, forecasting, performance measurement, and executive reporting.
• Ability to establish integrated project controls processes, shared data environments, common baselines, and transparent reporting frameworks across multiple organizations.
• Aptitude for influencing senior stakeholders, facilitating collaborative decision-making, resolving conflicts, and building alignment within complex project environments.
• Proficiency in project controls systems, PMIS platforms, common data environments, data visualization tools, and reporting software.

Rewards & Benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada.

Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.

Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.

And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time-off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis , we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.