Project Controls Lead
Accenture
This is a Contract position in Toronto, ON posted January 21, 2025.
- (Internal Title- Project Controls IV)
- Responsible for leading a team of Cost or Schedule or Estimating or Risk and other Project Controls personnel in a coordinated manner on medium-risk, large-size projects, or elements on larger programs including directing the work of project staff under their project supervision, such that Project Controls services are completed as planned
- Implement, maintain, and apply typical and appropriate means and methods of project controls processes and interfaces from the inception of the project or program portfolio to the completion
- Create and manage short and long-term project controls service goals and success criteria for projects or programs
- Participate in the development of a budget and operating or delivery plans for the project controls services on a project or program in consultation with the team and client
- Responsible for the human and material resources required to deliver project controls services successfully
- Contribute to managing the project controls team per the project plans
- Manage a project controls team leveraging a diverse array of talents and delegation of responsibilities
- Recommend success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project and program life cycle
- Facilitate changes and interventions to ensure project controls service goals are achieved
- Plan for and meet with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent
- Support the production of accurate and timely reporting of project controls including status and performance throughout its life cycle
- Identify and analyze risks and implement mitigation strategies and contingency plans within the project portfolio
- Review and ensure adherence to the project controls services operating or delivery plan, scope, schedule, milestones, budgets, and KPIs and address issues with corrective actions as appropriate while raising red flags as needed
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, and presentations to various audiences, including the project team, client executives, and key stakeholders
- Understand the entire scope of the assignment and support scope change negotiations
- Enforce acceptable standards of workmanship in project controls through every stage of the work
- Build and maintain a positive, high-performing team culture with an openness to constructive challenge, continuous improvement, implementation of lessons learned, and an overall ‘right-first-time” mindset
- Monitor and manage clear and focused staff performance objectives on the project or program to ensure excellence in results
- Promote an environment that is inclusive, and diverse and celebrates our differences
- Complete any tasks assigned by the Project Controls V or higher in an efficient and timely manner
- Fill in any project controls roles if needed
- Working Conditions
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Office-based
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