Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Project Controls Specialist with strong experience in both cost and schedule management to support active project delivery. This role requires practical experience using various Project controls systems and methodologies, performance reporting, and day-to-day administrative coordination to help project team track progress, maintain accurate data, compare project information, identify variances, and support timely decision-making. 

Your role

• Support day-to-day cost and schedule control activities, including budget tracking, forecast updates, schedule progress updates, and variance analysis. 
• Maintain project data in EcoSys and Primavera P6, ensuring alignment between cost, schedule, WBS, control accounts, and reporting structures. 
• Monitor cost and schedule performance, identify trends or deviations, and support corrective action planning with project teams. 
• Support change management by assessing cost and schedule impacts, updating forecasts, and maintaining project control logs. 
• Perform administrative project controls tasks, including maintaining trackers, updating logs, organizing supporting documentation, and following up on required inputs from project stakeholders. 
• Track project data across cost, schedule, change, risk, and estimating inputs to help ensure completeness, consistency, and timely updates. 
• Prepare and update project cost reports, schedule reports, dashboards, and performance summaries for project teams and leadership. 
• Analyze cost and schedule data to support earned value reporting, forecast accuracy, schedule adherence, and project performance reviews. 
• Compare data from multiple sources, including EcoSys, Primavera P6, spreadsheets, and project reports, to identify discrepancies, validate information, and support data quality improvements. 
• Maintain and update reporting trackers, action registers, status logs, and other administrative project controls tools used to support regular reporting cycles. 
• Work closely with project managers, cost analysts, schedulers, engineering, procurement, and finance teams to support project execution. 

About you

• 5+ years of experience in project controls, cost control, scheduling, or project performance reporting. 
• Hands-on experience with Primavera P6 and cost management tools such as EcoSys. 
• Experience supporting active projects in a cross-functional environment. 
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, progress measurement, variance analysis, and earned value management. 
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills. 

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience working on large-scale engineering, construction, nuclear, infrastructure, or similar project environments. 
• Knowledge of earned value management, cost forecasting, schedule analysis, and change impact assessment. 
• Ability to interpret project data and communicate key risks, variances, and recommended actions clearly. 
• Ability to work effectively with project managers, technical teams, and project controls stakeholders. 

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada.

Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.

Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.

And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time-off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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