Project Controls Director

AtkinsRéalis Canada Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work culture

Competitive compensation

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis Canada is seeking a senior Project Controls Director to lead the integrated controls on a major capital infrastructure project in Toronto. You will align clients, delivery partners, designers, contractors and commercial teams to ensure a consistent planning, cost, risk and reporting framework across the program.

This role emphasizes data-driven decision making, governance, and mentoring multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of project controls experience on large capital infrastructure projects.
• Proficient in integrated planning, scheduling, cost management, risk, and forecasting.
• Ability to establish cross-organizational reporting frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder influence and governance skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated project controls across the project leadership team.
• Develop and govern a single integrated controls framework.
• Facilitate planning, scheduling, milestones, and forecast activities across organizations.
• Provide cost, schedule, risk, and change performance reporting.
• Develop dashboards and executive presentations for governance forums.
• Mentor and develop multidisciplinary project controls teams.

Skills

Integrated planning

Scheduling

Cost management

Risk & opportunity management

Change control

Forecasting

Executive reporting

Stakeholder influence

Tools

PMIS platforms

Data visualization

Reporting software

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. Be rewarded. Find out more.

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. Find out more.

Additional Information

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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. Created by the integration of long‑standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world‑class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end‑to‑end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.