Senior Project Controls Lead – Heavy Civil / Infrastructure Construction

Calgary, Alberta Skyline Recruitment is partnering with a leading Canadian construction contractor to hire an experienced Senior Project Controls Lead . Our client is an established contractor delivering major infrastructure, heavy civil, and energy projects across Western Canada. This position will provide project controls leadership and support across multiple projects, helping improve consistency, reporting, forecasting, scheduling, and overall project performance.

The successful candidate will bring strong experience across cost control, scheduling, forecasting, earned value, progress measurement, and project reporting, with the ability to work closely with both corporate and project-based teams. Responsibilities:

Lead and support project controls activities across multiple construction projects

Develop, implement, and maintain project controls processes, systems, and reporting standards

Establish and maintain cost reporting and forecasting systems

Monitor project costs, progress, productivity, earned value, and schedule performance

Develop accurate cost-to-complete and project completion forecasts

Support the development and maintenance of detailed project schedules

Monitor critical path, schedule performance, manpower loading, and project milestones

Analyse cost and schedule trends and identify potential risks or performance issues

Prepare weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly project controls and management reports

Develop and maintain WBS and CBS structures and ensure accurate cost coding

Support change management, change order estimates, cost analysis, and project forecasting

Track physical progress, labour hours, subcontractor performance, and project productivity

Identify schedule or cost deviations and support recovery and mitigation planning

Work closely with project management, commercial, finance, operations, and field teams





Support project teams with project controls best practices and reporting requirements

Identify opportunities to improve and standardize project controls processes across the organization Requirements:

6+ years of project controls experience within construction or a major project environment

Robust experience with cost control, scheduling, forecasting, earned value, and progress measurement

Background within heavy civil, infrastructure, industrial, energy, oil & gas, or similar construction environments

Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6

Proven understanding of construction project delivery, cost structures, scheduling, and project management methodologies

Experience developing cost forecasts and analysing project performance and trends

Ability to interpret project data and communicate risks, trends, and recommendations to senior leadership

Experience working with project teams, field operations, commercial teams, and finance

Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related technical qualification preferred

PMI or similar professional certification considered an asset

Experience with Hard Dollar, TILOS, Power Platform, or similar project controls systems considered an asset What’s Offered:

Competitive compensation package

Comprehensive benefits

Senior project controls position supporting major construction projects across Western Canada

Chance to influence and standardize project controls processes across multiple projects

Direct exposure to project and corporate leadership

Involvement in complex heavy civil, infrastructure, and energy construction

Long-term opportunity with an established Canadian construction contractor This chance would suit an experienced Project Controls Manager, Project Controls Lead, Senior Project Controls Specialist, Cost Controls Manager, or Planning & Controls Manager looking for a broader role supporting major construction operations. If you are an experienced project controls professional considering your next opportunity in Calgary, we would welcome a confidential conversation.

📌 Senior Project Controls Lead (Calgary)
🏢 Skyline Recruitment
📍 Calgary