Project Controls Lead

Responsibilities

• Work closely with package-level schedulers to interpret schedule performance, key drivers, risks, and delivery implications.
• Perform critical path, float, and variance analysis to support Delivery Managers' understanding of schedule health.
• Advise on schedule impacts related to changes, delays, mitigation strategies, and resequencing.
• Support schedule narratives and time impact analyses from a controls assurance and decision-support perspective.
• Ensure alignment between contract-level schedules and program-level milestones, constraints, and interfaces.
• Interpret cost reports, forecasts, and trends at the contract package level to assess delivery implications.
• Analyze budget and forecast movements, emerging trends, and potential cost exposure.
• Support Delivery Managers by translating cost data into forward-looking, risk-informed insights.
• Assist with evaluation of change events and cost impacts in coordination with commercial teams.
• Provide integrated cost and schedule narratives to support leadership decision-making.
• Maintain and interpret the contract-level risk register, with a focus on cost and schedule exposure.
• Identify emerging risks through trend analysis and delivery intelligence.
• Support development and tracking of mitigation strategies.
• Support contingency usage discussions and confidence assessments as required.
• Apply project controls quality standards to cost, schedule, and risk information produced by delivery teams and functional support groups.
• Perform consistency and assurance checks across forecasts, schedules, risk logs, and reporting narratives.
• Ensure compliance with the Project Management Plan (PMP), contract requirements, and program controls governance.
• Support audit readiness and responses related to project controls processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field.
• Experience supporting major infrastructure or transportation projects, preferably at the contract or package level.
• Strong analytical capability and attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills suitable for senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with delivery managers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated expertise in: Schedule interpretation and critical path analysis, Cost analysis, forecasting, and trend interpretation, Risk identification and management.

Qualifications

• None specified

Skills

• Project Management
• Schedule Interpretation
• Critical Path Analysis
• Cost Analysis
• Forecasting
• Risk Management

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements may be available upon request.

Pay

The estimated starting salary for this position is $170k. Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills and qualifications.

Schedule

Not specified