Lead Project Control Specialist

Company Description

Chantier Davie Canada Inc. is Canada’s largest shipbuilding and repair yard. Based on values such as success, dynamic, accountability and relationship.

You have a taste for adventure and want to start an exceptional career in an environment where you will have the opportunity to grow.

Come support the nation with us. We build and repair Canadian ships for the Department of National Defence, Transport Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard.

As the Lead Project Controls specialist, you will be responsible for the analysis and forecasting of project-related costs for major ship repair or shipbuilding projects. You will be responsible for collecting and reporting cost and performance data for management review. The Lead Project Controls Specialist must provide support to the PMO in all cost and forecasting aspects of the project. More specifically, the incumbent will:

• Ensure compliance with laws and all specific local requirements.
• Complete a comprehensive budget analysis compared with actual costs of the project;
• Make sure that the shipyard’s change orders are recorded and tracked efficiently
• Be responsible for setting the cost baselines, managing changes to the control budgets, monitoring and controlling of incurred costs, forecasting of estimates at completion and producing reports that satisfy CDCI and Client requirements up to and including the final project closeout cost report;
• Make sure that internal control systems exist and that they are implemented during various stages of the project according to the company’s standards;
• Work in close cooperation with the Project controls manager in order to make sure that he is aware of the progress, performances, budgets health, change orders and any potential risks related to the project;
• Identify cost reduction initiatives and support estimating for creating norms;
• Develop performance indicators (cost analysis);
• Provide general support to any process improvement and yard wide initiative;

Qualifications

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in French and English;
• Engineering degree;
• Organization and time-management skills – able to meet deadlines;
• Experience in naval industry or on major infrastructure projects;
• Advanced understanding of cost engineering best practices;
• 8+ years or more experience of cost controls (project control/cost engineering) experience;
• Advanced computer skills including MS Office with a focus within MS Excel;
• Advanced Experienced with Earned Value Management and Project Management Software;
• Successful completion of the investigation and security clearance process required by the federal government’s Contract Security Program
• Strong collaboration skills, get-it-done attitude and team spirit.