Are you looking for a role that will challenge your leadership, analytical, and strategic planning skills? Can you see yourself guiding a high‑performing project controls team that supports large, complex science and technology projects? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you—apply today Our Science and Technologies (S&T;) mission is looking for a Project Controls Manager to lead the project controls team and ensure S&T; projects are delivered efficiently, responsibly, and successfully. What will you be doing
- Optimizing S&T; Project Controls Organization:
- Establishing management structure and resource requirements to support program objectives.
- Allocating resources as appropriate to support programs and projects.
- Monitoring organizational effectiveness and adjusting as needed.
- Managing S&T; Project Controls Staff:
- Supervising S&T; Project Controls team, and managing organizational recruiting, performance appraisals, succession planning, and disciplinary processes.
- Assessing organizational skill levels and coordinating training as needed to address weaknesses.
- Implementing effective and disciplined Project Controls processes:
- Project Planning: Ensuring processes are in place to develop appropriately detailed scope, schedule, budget, and risk assessment artifacts that are aligned to corporate requirements and establishing a basis for successful execution.
- Project Execution: Ensuring staff members monitor and report progress, assessing project performance, applying corporate and industry best practices for forecasting project outcomes.
- Implementing disciplined scope management practices.
- Ensuring trends and change control processes are understood and applied as appropriate.
- Staying current with industry best practices.




- Engaging with other members of the CNL Project Controls management team to develop effective project controls support processes.
- Communicating Program Performance:
- Analyzing all reporting protocols, both Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and CNL, for potential improvements.
- Editing and challenging the team’s input on the S&T; Monthly Performance Reviews (variance analysis).
- Preparing other narrative reports on project performance and supporting their presentation or presenting them to senior management.
- Being responsible for assurance reviews of reports, briefing notes, and updates to Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and the CNL management.
- Performing and supervising financial analysis of S&T-reported; costs.
- Coordinating program performance reviews with CNL Management.
- Other duties as assigned by your manager. What we are looking for:
- Education
- Post-secondary education in engineering, business, project management or a related discipline.
- PMP or other Project Management Institute (PMI) certification preferred.
- Experience
- 7-10 years of progressively responsible project controls management experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, in a senior leadership capacity.
- Demonstrated experience in all aspects of project controls and project management (i.e., initiation, planning, scheduling, estimating, budgeting, risk analysis, executing, monitoring, change control, and closeout).




- Must have a strong background with the application and utilization of Earned Value management to plan, monitor, and control project performance.
- Experience managing project controls staff supporting various project types within CNL program portfolios (e.g., support, construction, operations, R&D;, and environmental management).
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Thorough knowledge of project controls functions and tools, especially schedule and use of Primavera P6, for tracking, forecasting, analyzing, and reporting of projects, and key performance indicators
- Demonstrated supervisory and leadership experience
- Knowledge of and experience using Primavera P6 scheduling software
- Ability to provide guidance and coaching on project schedule development.
- Robust understanding of planning processes, integrating scheduling, estimating, and risk analysis into the final product
- Strong technical understanding of the critical path method scheduling and schedule management
- Strong knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word and PowerPoint software
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage human performance, lead/influence and motivate teams, plan and organize work, monitor and report business performance, work with minimal direction, and make timely decisions.
- Proven planning and organizational skills and competence leading others in delivering expected results on a diverse set of objectives, on time, and on budget.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in written form, in mediums from email to procedures and presentations
- including the ability to effectively interact with management, peers, and internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal and oral / written communi

📌 Manager, S&T Project Controls (Ottawa)
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