Project Controls Manager Jobs

DRA Global Limited (ASX: DRA | JSE: DRA) (DRA or the Company) is an international multi-disciplinary engineering, project delivery and operations management group, predominantly focused on the mining, minerals, and metals industry.

The Group has an extensive track record spanning almost four decades across a wide range of commodities. Our teams have deep expertise in the mining, minerals, and metals processing industries, as well as related non-process infrastructure such as water, and energy solutions.

DRA covers all major mining centers with offices across Africa and the Middle East, North and South America, and the Asia-Pacific. We are seeking a Project Controls Manager for our Toronto office.

The Project Controls Manager is client interfacing and is responsible to provide the management and guidance to support and maintain the set up and running of all required project controls systems, tools and interfaces to allow successful cost and schedule management throughout the project.

Responsibilities:

• Act as primary Client’s liaison with the EPCM project controls team and manage controls activities per requirements in the prime EPCM Agreement.
• Provide input to the Project Managers’ reports to the client in detail to ensure they are accurate, concise and informative on progress / costs to date and forecasts through to completion.
• Focus and identify key risks and opportunities in the interest of the project
• Prepare cash flow forecasts of forthcoming financial commitments and prepare commitment curves for the project.
• Collect, analyze, and reduce capital and operating cost data to statistics and metrics for scoping, execution planning, and estimating costs for reporting.
• Monitor the project’s costs and resource levels to maintain an accurate forecast cost at completion.
• Understand the principles of Earned Value management and performance metrics.
• Prepare monthly status, schedule and cost reports including evaluations and presentation of current projected budgets; assess actual commitments and expenditures through a specified reporting period. Compares forecasts to the approval budget and provide explanations for any variances.
• Analyze variances in costs and timelines against the plan and communicate reasons for variances and proposed mitigation plans to project management.
• Key interface with Client team members as required
• Establish and maintain schedule of the Client’s scope across the projects integrated with EPCM scope of work.
• Implement trending process for the scope relating to cost and schedule.
• Prepare consolidated capital cost forecast estimates for the scope under management and coordinate the EPCM forecast across multiple contracts.
• Provide recommendations on the draw-down of escalation and contingency throughout the project duration.
• Maintain accurate records of committed, expended and forecast costs associated with the project against the approved budget.
• Review scope changes, trends and change notices initiated from the project management systems and review their time and cost implications.
• Responsible for overseeing cost and schedule for the scope managed on the Client’s behalf across multiple contracts with the Client.
• Assure all cost and planning project control procedures are in place and are in compliance with corporate policy and standards.
• Prepare cost data cost reports, change alert and variation registers, variance reports etc. ensure cost change variations are recorded and processed for work not covered under the EPCM scope.
• Ensure timely deliverables required for month end documentation, reporting appendixes, vendor invoice processing, EPCM invoices etc.
• Interface Cost control, Scheduling and Procurement activities.

Requirements:

• Experience with project control (cost, planning and estimation).
• Must have been exposed to large-scale projects and large project teams.
• Experience managing small teams and managing conflicts.
• Ability to travel both in Canada and abroad for short-term assignments.
• Have a minimum of 15-20 years of total experience.
• Proficient in MS Office (spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, graphics) and the project.
• Bachelor of Engineering desirable.
• Proven ability to work with project teams to influence and achieve desired results.
• Knowledge of contracts and contract administration.
• Experience in all phases of engineering, procurement and construction.

Employment type:

• Permanent

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