Project Controls Manager

Job Description

Overview

The Project Controls Manager leads project controls planning, governance, reporting, cost management, scheduling, and earned value management across assigned projects or portfolios. The role ensures consistent standards, accurate performance data, and timely insight to support effective project delivery and decision-making.

Your role

• Develop and maintain project controls processes, standards, templates, and reporting requirements.
• Lead cost, schedule, forecasting, change control, EVMS, and performance reporting activities.
• Implement and oversee EVMS practices, data quality, reporting, and compliance requirements.
• Manage Project Controls Specialists, including priorities, workload, guidance, and delivery.
• Support project leaders with issue resolution, governance, performance monitoring, and stakeholder coordination.
• Prepare and coordinate project controls reports, dashboards, forecasts, and executive summaries.
• Analyze cost, schedule, variance, risk, and forecast data to identify issues and corrective actions.
• Ensure deliverables meet company standards, client requirements, audit expectations, and governance processes.
• Maintain interfaces with project management, engineering, construction, procurement, finance, and client teams.
• Support onboarding and integration of project controls resources, tools, and processes.
• Drive continuous improvement in project controls systems, reporting, data quality, and team practices.

Other Aspects (If Applicable):

• May manage project controls resources across multiple projects or portfolios.
• May serve as the main project controls contact for internal, client, and supplier teams.
• May lead governance reviews, EVMS readiness, performance reviews, and audit support.
• May support improvements to systems, reporting, process maturity, and data quality.

About you

• Degree or diploma in finance, accounting, engineering, business, project management, or a related field.
• Typically, 10+ years of experience in project controls, cost, scheduling, planning, estimating, or program management.
• Experience managing project controls for complex projects, programs, or portfolios.
• Experience developing budgets, cash flows, schedules, forecasts, reports, and EAC reviews.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, Power BI, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, ERP, SAP, Oracle, and cost tools.
• Advanced knowledge of cost, schedule, forecasting, EVMS, change control, risk, and performance reporting.
• Strong understanding of EVMS processes, data, reporting, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to analyze cost and schedule data and provide actionable recommendations.
• Ability to use cost and schedule data to assess project status and performance.
• Analytical, organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and customer-focused.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, SAP, Oracle, Excel, Power BI, and related tools.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, and presentation skills.
• Able to work independently, set priorities, and deliver under changing deadlines.

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.