Project Controls Specialist

Your role

• Overall responsibility for compliance of assigned projects with project controls standards - both from applicable contract documents and from Aecon project controls policies/guidelines.
• Participate in developing, establishing and maintaining the company's project cost /control systems.
• Participate in proposal and estimating efforts to ensure continuity between project estimates and project baseline.
• Review the project contract and ensure that all the contract conditions (invoicing, reporting, change management, etc.) are applied and fulfilled, project tracking and reporting, and project closeout.
• Monitor the project performance and ensure that all the project control system is properly implemented.
• Generate all required project status reports for internal management and for the customer, including the overall project Dashboard, project performance report (Earned Value, SPI, CPI, etc).
• Responsible to maintain a change management system in compliance with contract conditions and Aecon's procedures; monitor and enforce the change management system for assigned projects.
• Responsible to communicate, train and generally ensure full understanding by project staff of project controls processes and their applicable responsibilities.
• Review and analyze the project control reports (i.e. progress and productivity) with the project control leads and project team and suggest corrective actions to maintain reasonable (around 1-PF) performance/productivity.
• Review and analyze the project scheduling and cost reports and suggest corrective actions to maintain the project within anticipated cost and schedule.
• Prepare and update project cash flows including a profit and loss statement for joint venture partners.
• AS required, produce custom reports per request of customer or internal management.
• Provide input on an ongoing basis for improvements/modifications to Shoreline's project controls policy & guidelines.
• Other duties as assigned.

Planning & scheduling:

Support development and maintenance of resource‑loaded, logic‑driven schedules that reflect construction sequencing, workface planning inputs, and MCR methodology. Facilitate schedule development with project teams to ensure activities are properly logical tied, coded, leveled, and aligned with contract deliverables. Assist with monthly schedule updates, variance analysis, critical path reviews, and identification of near‑critical work requiring proactive management.

Ensure planning best practices are applied, including:

• Consistent WBS and CBS integration.
• Use of standard activity coding structures.
• Physical progress measurement aligned with Earned Value principles.
• Compliance with Primavera P6 governance and schedule quality checks (DCMA 14‑point, logic density, open ends, etc.).
• Analyze schedule performance (SPI, float trends) and provide recommended actions to address deviations.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of progress curves, productivity curves, and forecasting tools in collaboration with construction and cost control teams.

Change management & governance:

• Maintain a compliant change management system consistent with contract requirements and Shoreline processes.
• Track, validate, and document changes, including scope, schedule, labor productivity, and indirect impacts in order to support timely submission of change notices and claims.

Fiscal responsibility:

• Direct support of Project management to monitor and report project financial status.
• Fiscal responsibility as required by the Joint Venture agreement.

Extent of public contact:

• External clients and client groups.