The posting
Bruce Power is advancing Ontario’s clean energy future and medical isotope innovation. From safely delivering clean, reliable power to families and businesses across the province and cancer-fighting medical isotopes around the world to supporting challenging and innovative nuclear projects like our multi-year Life Extension Program. Supporting this work onsite offers interesting and impactful opportunities.
We are seeking Project Controls Leads for contract opportunities at the Bruce Power site through a contract partner. These dynamic opportunities require individuals who thrive in a fast paced and integrated team environment.
Please apply if you are interested in an opportunity to work collaboratively while supporting various work programs for the following role.
- Project Controls Lead
The Project Controls Lead oversees planning, scheduling, cost control, risk management, and reporting for large-scale, multimillion-dollar projects and programs. This leadership role manages a team of project controls professionals, drives strategic initiatives, and collaborates with program managers, engineers, and vendors to ensure project success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Staff Leadership:Coordinate project control activities to ensure workflow, production, deadline compliance, and operational efficiency. Manage priorities, assign work, and review complex assignments for staff. Guide and coach staff to resolve problems in line with program goals and strategies. Foster a work environment of innovation, teamwork, transparency, integrity, and respect; promote a learning environment.
- Developing Plans and Schedules:Ensure compliance with project planning and scheduling policies, processes, and procedures. Control project management plans and deliverables through change management. Provide project reporting in Primavera. Review project plans for appropriate detail, considering scope, milestones, resources, and risks. Manage production of pre-construction, construction, and close-out schedules. Develop work breakdown structures and ensure standards are followed. Use critical path analysis to identify priority work and potential problems. Integrate contractor and material delivery schedules with project activities.
- Implementing Project Cost Processes:Mentor and coach project cost management functions, ensuring compliance with requirements. Manage compliance to project cost standards and procedures. Produce earned value performance measurements and update project controls systems. Prepare project budgets and ensure coordination with schedules. Support trend and change management programs with cost analysis. Maintain cost database integrity and ensure timely, accurate cost reporting. Advise on cost overruns, trends, opportunities, conflicts, and risks.
- Risk Management:Assist with identification, analysis, prioritization, and assignment of project and procurement risks. Develop and manage Risk Management Plans throughout the project lifecycle.
- Monitoring, Analysis & Reporting Project Performance:Report project deliverable status using metrics, dashboards, and graphics. Monitor actual progress against planned objectives, schedules, budgets, and risks. Provide timely information to Project Managers for corrective action. Analyze schedule data for trends and critical activities. Produce and coordinate periodic management reports and schedule forecasts. Monitor and forecast all cost elements, including trends and changes. Support development of standard reports (cost analysis, forecasts, cash flows, risk assessments).
- Estimating:Revise estimates with project team and implement required changes. Ensure scope is documented and maintained through change management. Oversee development and maintenance of estimating documentation. Ensure alignment between estimates, cost, and schedules.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or a related field, or equivalent education/experience; diploma in a related technical field may be considered.
- 5–10 years progressive management experience, including a minimum of 5 years of experience in Project Controls as a Planner/Scheduler, Cost Analyst, or Estimator, focused on large capital projects in a safety critical environment.
- Expertise in Earned Value Management and Change Management processes.
- Proficient with project management tools: Primavera P6, Eco Sys, Active Risk Manager (ARM), and Microsoft suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Power BI); quick to learn new tools and technologies.
- Certifications from PMI - Project Management Institute or AACE - Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineers International is considered an asset.
Are you ready for a change?
Please attach a cover letter and resume, indicating your education and experience as it relates to this opportunity. We look forward to receiving your application and will be in contact with you, should you be selected for an interview.
The successful candidate will be selected based on related and required education, experience, knowledge and skills, a competency-based interview, and background reference checks.
This posting is for contract opportunities and while no posting end date is indicated, it may close at any time, based on fulfillment of business needs.
