Project Controls Manager

Lycopodium Limited; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Lycopodium Limited is recruiting a Project Controls Manager to join our Mississauga team. You will oversee project total costs, schedule and progress, ensuring accuracy and timely reporting for EPC/EPCM projects.

Role requires strong cost control, budgeting, scheduling and change management skills, with experience in Primavera P6 and MS Project. You will work within our Projects team on large, diverse infrastructure and industrial projects.

Qualifications

• Engineering qualification or equivalent is preferred.
• 8+ years post-graduation experience (or 10+ years in the industry).
• Strong understanding of project controls for EPC/EPCM projects.
• Ability to establish and maintain WBS and CBS.
• Forecasting and trend analysis of project costs, budgets and commitments.
• Procurement and project accounting interdependencies support.
• Coordinate change Management processes.
• Earned Value and KPI reporting proficiency.
• Scheduling systems expertise with Primavera P6 and MS Project.
• Ability to liaise with multiple disciplines and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Support the Project Controls Manager to establish and maintain cost controls.
• Maintain up-to-date data for management of project activities.
• Follow project control procedures and processes for budget, cost, and progress reporting.
• Implement and maintain Project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Manage project budget and schedule across engineering, procurement and construction.

Skills

Budget development

Cost control

Scheduling

Change management

Progress reporting

Earned Value

KPIs

Procurement interdependencies

Project accounting

Resource loading

WBS/CBS

Stakeholder liaison

Communication

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Job description

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, Southern Africa, Ghana, Philippines, Argentina and Peru, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium is currently recruiting for a Project Controls Manager to join our growing Projects team in Mississauga, ON.

Reporting to the Project Controls Manager they will be responsible for managing project total costs, schedule and progress in a timely and consistently accurate manner.

The tasks you'll perform

• Support the Project Controls Manager and his/her team to established and maintain the cost controls for a project, providing quality up to date data to assist with the management of project activities.
• Adopt and follow the various (project specific and company) procedures, work practices, plans, systems and protocols required to work efficiently, maintain a consistent approach and high standard of work.
• Operating in accordance with the Company Project Control Procedures and Processes, in particular cost control, forecasting and progress reporting.
• Implementation and maintenance of Project Control Work Breakdown Structure.
• Project budget and schedule management

The expertise you'll bring

• Preferably an Engineering qualification or equal (extended experience in the engineering and/or construction fields).
• More than 8 years post graduating (or 10 years experience in the industry).
• Strong understanding of project controls principals and processes for EPC/EPCM projects including budget development, cost control, planning/scheduling, change management, progress management and project reporting.
• Ability to establish and maintain Project work breakdown structure and cost breakdown structure.
• Ability to manage, forecast and trend Project indirect and direct capital costs including budget, commitments, accruals and forecast.
• Strong understanding of Procurement and Project accounting interdependencies, ability to liaise/provide support to both functions as required.
• Ability to coordinate and maintain project Change Management processes.
• Proficiency with Project progress measurement and reporting (including Earned Value and KPIs) for engineering, procurement and construction phases.
• Proficiency with scheduling systems (Primavera P6 and MS Project)
• Ability to establish and maintain resource loaded Project Schedule of required level of details for all phases including engineering, procurement, and construction.
• Ability to liaise with different disciplines (home office and at site), manage and coordinate various inputs for the accurate and timely project reporting at different levels (weekly, monthly, dashboard, ad-hoc, etc.)
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision with consistently high degree of accuracy and high quality deliverables.
• Demonstrate a high standard of verbal and written communication.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we:

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Provideemployeeswitha variety ofadditionalbenefits such as coverage for professional memberships, RRSP matching, healthcare spendingaccount,discountand rewards programs, andmuchmore.

The expected salary range for this role is $150,000 to $190,000.This range is based on the role’s job family andlevel and reflects a good faith estimate for the role at the time of posting.Your final offer will depend on factorssuch as market conditions, internal equity and candidateexperience,skills,andqualifications relevant to the role.We believe in fair,competitivepay that reflects the valueyoubring to the team.

Lycopodium is an equalopportunity employer committed to fostering diversityandmaintaininga discrimination free workplace,guidedbyour core values of Respect,Integrityand Diligence.

We arecommitted to providing the best possible experience for every candidate by responding to every application.We do not use AI to screen,assess,or select candidatesandto ensurefairness;every application is personally reviewed by a member of our team.If you require accommodation at anystage,pleasecontact our Recruitment Teamand we will work with you to provide the support you need.