Strategic Project Controls Director

4 weeks ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Metrolinx Full time
Job Summary

Metrolinx is seeking a highly skilled Director of Project Controls to lead the delivery of complex transportation projects. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for providing strategic and tactical oversight to ensure the successful management of risk, cost, scheduling, quality, change, and document control.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide program or portfolio performance analysis, identify issues and challenges, and make recommendations for recovery plans as required.
  • Interface with vendor project/program/portfolio controls to ensure contractual project controls requirements are met and adhered to according to Metrolinx expectations and standards.
  • Develop strategies for project controls activities across multiple contract delivery models.
  • Manage the relationships and quality control of the project controls functions, including estimating, scheduling, cost control, risk management, document control, change management, quality management, and reporting.
  • Resolve issues and ensure consistency and data compatibility between the cost control, planning/scheduling, risk, quality, and estimating functions and deliverables.
  • Effectively communicate concerns, complexities, general project controls information, and other considerations to varied audiences.

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, project management, or related technical field.
  • Demonstrated experience with increasing responsibility in the management of project controls on large projects, transportation project experience, and specifically transit experience is a plus.
  • Experience is required across all project delivery methods, including Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build, Public Private Partnerships/AFP delivery, and Progressive Contracting models.
  • Exceptionally skilled in project controls theory, principles, and practice.
  • Demonstrable highly skilled experience of reasoned decision-making in high-pressure and paced environments.
  • Demonstrable highly skilled experience of successfully managing competing objectives of external and internal stakeholders and recognizing materiality.
  • Excellent problem-solving and influencing skills to establish effective working relationships, negotiate, and deal with a variety of contacts both internal and external to the organization.
  • Ability to communicate/interface effectively with senior management and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to engage and influence a wide variety of portfolio, program, and project resources.
  • Excellent leadership skills to motivate a team, set high standards, and clear expectations, manage expectations and outputs.
  • Excellent writing skills with experience authoring technical quality management documentation.
  • Excellent oral and interpersonal skills with demonstrated success working effectively and collaboratively in a large, integrated, matrix team environment at all levels of an organization.

What We Offer
Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario, and we are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. We value the unique skills and experiences each person brings to our organization and are committed to the requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please let our Recruitment team know by contacting us at: 416-202-5601 or email.

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