Project Controls Director

Candu Energy Inc.

Location: Mississauga, CA-ON
Work arrangement: On-site
Job type: Full-time
Posted 2 days ago

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Skills and tools

Project management
Secondary education
Accounting
PMP
CPA
Construction
Procurement
Power BI
Accessibility
Cybersecurity

Experience

15+ years
5–10 years of experience

Qualifications

About this role

Job Description

Overview

The Project Controls Director provides senior leadership and strategic direction for the planning, execution, governance, and continuous improvement of project controls across major projects, programs, portfolios, or enterprise-level workstreams.

This role is accountable for ensuring effective integration of cost control, planning and scheduling, earned value, forecasting, change management, reporting, systems, and performance analysis. The Project Controls Director leads project controls teams, establishes standards and expectations, provides oversight of reporting quality and data integrity, and supports senior leadership in making informed decisions related to project performance, risk, recovery, and delivery outcomes.

The role requires strong technical expertise in project controls, proven leadership capability, stakeholder influence, and the ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels.

Your role

Lead the overall strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of project controls functions across assigned projects, programs, portfolios, or business areas.
Establish, maintain, and oversee project controls processes, standards, procedures, and governance expectations.
Provide leadership and direction for cost control, planning and scheduling, earned value, forecasting, change control, reporting, and performance management activities.
Ensure project controls practices are integrated across cost, schedule, scope, risk, finance, commercial, and reporting functions.
Lead the development and delivery of reliable project performance reporting, including cost performance, schedule performance, earned value, variance analysis, forecasts, trends, and corrective action plans.
Oversee the Cost Performance Report process and ensure reporting is accurate, timely, consistent, and fit for leadership decision-making.
Identify key project performance variances, risks, issues, and trends, and lead the development of corrective action plans with project teams.
Challenge forecasts, schedules, assumptions, variances, and performance narratives to ensure clear visibility of project delivery risks and opportunities.
Provide senior advisory support to project leadership, functional leadership, alliance partners, clients, finance, commercial teams, and executives.
Lead implementation and oversight of change control processes, including trend management, approved changes, potential claims, and impacts to cost, schedule, scope, and forecast.
Support alignment between project controls, finance, commercial, project management, and delivery teams to ensure consistent project performance visibility.
Build, organize, and lead functional project controls teams, including planners, schedulers, cost controllers, reporting analysts, and project controls specialists.
Provide coaching, mentoring, direction, and performance feedback to project controls staff.
Support capability development, succession planning, and growth of project controls talent across cost and planning career streams.
Promote standardization, governance, data integrity, reporting discipline, and continuous improvement across project controls practices.
Support system implementation, process improvement, reporting enhancements, and integration between project controls systems and finance or enterprise systems.
Represent project controls in senior leadership discussions, client meetings, project reviews, governance forums, and business planning activities.
Ensure project controls teams operate effectively, collaboratively, and in alignment with business priorities, client commitments, and project delivery objectives.

*Other aspects (if applicable):*

May lead project controls across multiple projects, portfolios, programs, or strategic enterprise initiatives.
May provide functional leadership to cost controllers, planners, schedulers, reporting analysts, and project controls specialists.
May represent project controls in executive reviews, client meetings, alliance forums, governance reviews, and business planning discussions.
May lead or support project recovery planning, forecast challenges, schedule recovery, change control escalation, claims discussions, and commercial impact reviews.
May support enterprise standardization, reporting improvements, data integrity initiatives, system implementations, and capability development across project controls.
Expected to operate as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and as a role model for project controls professionalism, governance, collaboration, and accountability.

About you

Post-secondary education in engineering, business, commerce, finance, accounting, project management, or a related discipline.
Professional certification or designation such as PMP, PMI-SP, PSP, EVP, AACE, CPA, MBA, CFA, or equivalent is considered an asset.
Typically requires 15+ years of relevant project controls, project management, cost control, planning, scheduling, reporting, commercial, or project delivery experience.
Typically requires 5–10 years of experience leading project controls teams or multidisciplinary project delivery teams.
Experience supporting large, complex engineering, construction, nuclear, energy, infrastructure, or major capital projects is preferred.
Experience leading integrated project controls across cost, schedule, earned value, change, forecasting, reporting, and performance management.
Experience advising senior leadership on project performance, delivery risks, trends, forecasts, recovery plans, and corrective actions.
Experience working with clients, alliance partners, project teams, finance, commercial teams, and executive stakeholders.
Experience developing, implementing, or improving project controls processes, governance, systems, reporting frameworks, or performance management practices.
Nuclear project experience is considered an asset.
Expert knowledge of project controls principles, including cost control, planning and scheduling, earned value management, forecasting, reporting, change management, progress measurement, and performance analysis.
Strong understanding of integrated project delivery, including the relationship between scope, cost, schedule, risk, change, commercial, procurement, finance, and reporting.
Advanced knowledge of project management methodologies, including PMBOK/PMI practices, critical path method scheduling, earned value techniques, variance analysis, and corrective action planning.
Strong knowledge of project controls governance, policies, procedures, data standards, and reporting expectations.
Ability to interpret complex project performance data, identify issues, challenge assumptions, and recommend practical corrective actions.
Ability to lead executive-level reporting, performance reviews, forecast reviews, variance meetings, and recovery planning discussions.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage priorities, lead through ambiguity, and operate under pressure to meet deadlines.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and results-oriented mindset.

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.](https://careers.atkinsrealis.com/rewards-benefits-canada)

About AtkinsRéalis

We're [AtkinsRéalis](https://careers.atkinsrealis.com/), 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.](https://careers.atkinsrealis.com/)

Additional information

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*Appropriate accommodation will be provided upon request throughout the recruitment and hiring process as required by Company policy and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).*

*Successful applicants will be notified about AtkinsRéalis’ accommodation policies at the time the employment offer is extended, and the information will be shared with new personnel during the onboarding process.*

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.*

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](http://www.atkinsrealis.com/) or follow us on [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/atkinsrealis/).

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