General Accountability

Reporting to Manager – Project Controls, the Project Controls Lead is responsible for overseeing a team of Program/Project Schedulers and Project Cost Analysts, on day-to-day project execution activities for assigned projects and portfolios. The Project Controls Lead ensures the integration of project cost and schedule with scope, and also facilitates the change management process.  In leading the provision of project controls, the Project Controls Lead partners and interfaces with Project Managers and Senior Project Engineers, oversees the identification of variances, and recommends courses of remedial action to ensure successful project execution. 

Key Job Functions

• Lead the provision of project controls, including for scope, schedule, cost, and progress for assigned projects
• Coordinate and manage a  team of project controls resources assigned to the projects
• Oversee the set-up and integration of project baseline with regard to scope, schedule, cost, and progress
• Set up control budgets from project cost estimates
• Support the bid evaluation and award cycle of contracts
• Oversee and maintain integrated cost and schedule forecasts and impacts, and manage contingency drawdown
• Prepare project controls stage gate deliverables and support project execution team on the development of integrated stage gate deliverables
• Review and analyze contractor and consultants reports, schedules and payment requests
• Prepare, review and analyze project reports and data, including KPIs, trends, continuous improvement opportunities, and risks to leverage and mitigate
• Provide independent analysis of projects; provide input, guidance, and recommendations to the project execution team in support of project/program/portfolio decision-making and remedial action; exercise influence on project execution strategies to support project health
• Act as a key member of the project execution team and provide a mechanism to ensure that change requests are appropriate, controlled, validated, integrated and approved before implementation
• Identify adverse cost or schedule conditions, escalating any concerns to leadership
• Monitor and evaluate changes in execution, escalating any concerns to project execution team, and providing impact assessment based on quantity tracking, if variance is out of the range from previous estimate
• Promotes a respectful work and service environment that supports diversity, inclusion, and is free from harassment and discrimination. Provides leadership in the development and implementation of inclusive and accessible policies, programs and/or services for employees and customers in accordance with TTC's commitments and obligations under the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC) and Related Orders, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), and TTC's policies
   

Skills

Education and Experience

• Completion of a post-secondary college diploma or university degree in a related discipline (i.e. technical or business function), with several years of progressive, specialized project controls experience, or a combination of education, training and experience deemed to be equivalent
• Good understanding of and experience with end-to-end project lifecycle from inception to closure, including all project phases related to initiation, planning, executing, controlling, monitoring and closing
• Experience with managing and directing employees with goal translation, goal setting, performance management and employee development
• Experience with both owner and project execution requirements
• Extensive work experience in a Project Management Office setting
• Professional Engineer (P. Eng) or Project Management Professional (PMP), or professional level certification with the AACE (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) are considered assets

Additional Requirements

• Sound knowledge of project controls principles, methods, procedures and gate processes.
• Sound knowledge of estimating, scheduling, budgeting, and cost control principles, practices and
• techniques; good understanding of integration between functions; ability to provide technical guidance to direct reports.
• Sound judgment; superior analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking abilities; superior
• organizational and time management skills.
• Effective interpersonal, influencing, presentation, (verbal and written) communication, and facilitative
• skills, to interface with multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Proficient in software applications relevant to the work (i.e. Excel, Access, Prism, Primavera, MS Project, Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint)