Project Controls Director

A rare opportunity for a highly experienced Project Controls Director to be based in Hamilton, Ontario and to lead all project control activities on a major $1.5 billion rail infrastructure project likely to be awarded shortly.

This senior leadership role is ideal for a project controls professional with extensive civil engineering and rail experience who is seeking a new long-term career challenge within Canada’s infrastructure sector.

Project Details

This Project Controls Director job role, once the project is awarded, will be based on a large-scale rail infrastructure scheme to be constructed between Hamilton and Toronto, and forms part of a significant regional investment in transportation.

The scope of the Project Controls Director job role will be to oversee planning, cost management, risk, and performance control for a project currently valued at approximately CAD$1.5 billion. The role will be embedded within an alliance-style delivery environment promoting collaboration and transparency between the client, contractor, and consultant partners.

Responsibilities and Duties

The Project Controls Director will lead a multi-disciplinary project controls team and take overall accountability for cost, schedule, and risk management.

Duties will include:

• Providing strategic leadership to establish and manage the full suite of project controls processes from award through completion.
• Developing and maintaining integrated cost and schedule baselines, forecasts, and performance metrics.
• Overseeing earned value analysis, trend management, and risk reporting.
• Leading a team of cost engineers, planners, and analysts to ensure best practice in project delivery.
• Preparing and presenting project performance reports to senior management and alliance partners.
• Driving collaboration and alignment between commercial, engineering, and construction delivery functions.
• Ensuring consistent application of alliancing principles to optimise outcomes for all parties.
• Supporting strategic decision-making by providing accurate and timely project data.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Minimum 15 years’ experience on major civil engineering or rail infrastructure projects, ideally gained in Canada in order to understand local laws, standards and procedures although strong international experience is also acceptable
• At least 10 years experience in a senior project controls or management position either gained in Canada or internationally
• Proven experience working within an alliance or collaborative contracting model
• Strong knowledge of cost control, planning, scheduling, risk management, and earned value techniques.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience working on complex, multi-stakeholder construction projects within the Canadian or in the international infrastructure sector.

Qualifications/Educational Requirements

• Degree in engineering, construction management, or a related discipline.
• PMP certification preferred, although willingness to achieve this required certification is acceptable
• Additional professional project controls or cost management qualifications are advantageous.

Employing Company Overview and Profile

This role is with a leading international infrastructure consultant organisation renowned for delivering high-value civil engineering and rail projects across Canada and around the world.

Maxim Recruitment is proudly representing this employer to find a Project Controls Director capable of driving performance and innovation on a landmark rail project once it is awarded.
If the project is not awarded to this engineering consultant consortia, suitable candidates will still be employed in a pursuit / bidding role, and in preparation for future awards of similar major rail infrastructure projects in the Ontario area.

A full client overview will be provided to shortlisted candidates.

Additional Benefits Package and Incentives

• Highly competitive salary, likely to be in the region of CAD$300,000 per annum.
• Attractive performance-related bonuses.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Long-term career prospects on major civil engineering and rail projects across Canada.