Project Controls Director

Job title: Project Controls Director

What is the Opportunity?

Aecon is seeking a Project Controls Director to join the Urban Transportations Solutions group to support dynamic, transit projects in Canada. We are proud to support projects that are committed to faster and more convenient travel, ultimately improving transportation experiences. This starts with bringing aboard the best possible team!

Reporting to the Project Director, the Project Controls Director will provide a single, integrated view of project performance - cost, schedule, risk, data structure, and reporting - to keep the project on track and enable timely decision-making

This opportunity is part of Aecon UTS’ proactive talent pipelining as the business continues to expand across major transit projects. We are engaging passive, high-calibre leaders in the market to build relationships ahead of upcoming project awards.

What You Will Do Here:

• Lead the project controls function for collaborative delivery models such as Alliance, Progressive Design-Build, CMGC, and other open-book or target-price environments, ensuring alignment with project objectives, commercial frameworks, and governance requirements.
• Develop, implement, and maintain the Project Controls Management Plan, defining the project’s approach to cost management, schedule management, estimating, change control, risk management, earned value, reporting, and forecasting.
• Establish the project’s data structure early in the development phase, including Work Breakdown Structure, Cost Breakdown Structure, and other related control structures, and maintain integrity of those structures throughout the full project lifecycle.
• Build and maintain integrated cost, schedule, risk, and performance management systems that provide a single, reliable view of project status and future outlook to support informed decision-making.
• Lead development and maintenance of project budgets, cost baselines, commitment tracking, accruals, forecasts, contingency usage, and estimate at completion, ensuring timely visibility into financial performance and emerging trends.
• Lead development and maintenance of integrated project schedules across design, procurement, construction, systems installation, testing, commissioning, and closeout, including critical path analysis, resource planning, schedule quality reviews, and recovery planning.
• Establish progress measurement strategies, including rules of credit, productivity tracking, earned value methodologies, and variance verification processes to ensure performance is measured consistently and accurately.
• Implement and maintain Earned Value Management practices to monitor cost and schedule performance, analyze CPI, SPI, SV, and EAC movements, and provide meaningful insight into the drivers behind project results.
• Support Target Value Delivery and target proposal development through continuous estimating, trend management, cost modeling, risk integration, and alignment of target cost, schedule, contingency, and commercial assumptions.
• Lead the estimating process through development and delivery, ensuring estimates are progressively refined as scope matures, quantities are verified, pricing is tested, and risk is incorporated into the overall forecast and target price.
• Own the project’s quantitative risk program, including QCRA, QSRA, Monte Carlo analysis, risk registers, confidence modeling, and integration of risk outputs into cost, schedule, and contingency strategies.
• Establish and lead risk governance cadences, facilitate risk reviews, support risk owners in defining mitigation actions, and ensure risks are escalated appropriately with transparent reporting of exposure and confidence levels.
• Lead development and implementation of the project-specific change management plan, ensuring scope changes, trend items, baseline changes, contingency draws, and budget transfers are identified, evaluated, approved, and reported in accordance with contract requirements and internal standards.
• Deliver integrated reporting and analytics that clearly connect cost, schedule, risk, progress, and change, including