Project Controls Specialist

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**Summary**:
DMC is currently looking for a Project Controls Specialist to join our team on a permanent basis, based in our Vaughan Head Office. The Project Controls Specialist will be responsible for monitoring, controlling, and reporting the progress of our projects, ensuring the effectiveness and appropriate integration of cost control, scheduling, progressing, change management and estimating on the project. This position will be working with site project teams in Chile to produce and track key measurements.

**Responsibilities**:
Cost Management:

- Coordinates and oversees all aspects of the cost functions and associated reporting.
- Ensures forecasts are prepared and integrated according to project and DMC requirements.
- Ensures effective cost assessment and analysis is performed and reported.Planning, Scheduling & Progress:

- Ensures that suitable procedures and systems for project planning and scheduling are followed.
- Coordinates all aspects of the planning and scheduling functions and ensures the schedules are properly integrated into one master schedule.
- Ensures schedule assessment and analysis is performed and reported.
- Maintains and updates the Basis of Schedule Document to provide full visibility on the current schedule assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
- Ensures accuracy in the reporting of total project construction, procurement and engineering progress and productivity.

Change Management:

- Ensures project team members are aware of accountabilities for change notification, mitigation opportunities for adverse changes are maximized and that changes are properly analyzed, reviewed, approved, and implemented.
- Controls, analyzes, and approves of change to scope, cost and schedule on the project.
- Promotes the communication of change occurring at site and head office engineering and schedules change meetings appropriately.
- Ensures systems, processes and procedures are in place for early identification and appropriate communication of changes.
- Collects, compiles, and ensures the quality of all change related reporting.General:

- Advises on opportunities for Project Controls process improvement and assists with procedural creation and reviews.
- Supports effective interfacing with other departments such as Construction, Contracts, Procurement and Finance.
- Attends and assists with routine weekly and monthly meetings and associated reporting.
- Maintains an awareness of client requirements and establishes effective working relationships at all levels.

**Qualifications**:

- 5+ years of Project Controls experience, ideally in the heavy industry.
- Experience in using P6 scheduling software.
- Experience in Earned Value Management and Forecasting Mechanisms.
- Experience in analyzing deviations from the baseline in the project master schedule highlighting critical tasks/delays, and proposing corrective actions.
- Experience in Implementing project planning and scheduling, aligning Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS).
- Experience in Cost Load and Resource Load Schedule.
- Ability to communicate fluently in Spanish.
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, or related discipline.
- Flexible, well organized, able to address multiple conflicting priorities and be proactive.
- Project Management and Engineering knowledge is a strong asset.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
- Knowledge of the mining industry is an asset.
- Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
- _No external recruiters please._

As part of our commitment to ensuring our employment practices are fair, accessible, and inclusive of persons with disabilities, please note that accommodations are available, upon request, throughout the recruitment and assessment process for any applicants with disabilities.