Project Controls Manager - Nuclear

Requisition ID: 179158

Job Level: Senior Level

Home District/Group: Kiewit Nuclear Solutions

Department: Project Controls

Market: Nuclear

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Overview

As a Senior Project Controls Manager, you will manage multiple on‑site project controls teams responsible for planning, scheduling, budget and cost controls, change management, and reporting. This role will give you the opportunity to build, mentor, and lead a team of project controls professionals assigned to multiple projects.

District Overview

Kiewit Nuclear Solutions is a full‑service engineering, project management and construction provider operating across North America. Our experience spans all aspects of the nuclear market from carbon‑free, small modular reactors to Department of Energy science, environmental and nuclear security mission capabilities. With these broad capabilities, we operate in the power utility, renewable energy, industrial and infrastructure markets.

Location

This position can be based at our corporate office in Oakville, ON or at our project office near Darlington/Bowmanville, ON.

Responsibilities

• Manage project controls teams on multiple project sites including project controls engineering, schedulers, cost analysts, and discipline‑focused Advanced Work Packaging Planning team.
• Lead Digital Strategy Workshops and initiatives.
• Mentor junior project controls engineers, schedulers, and cost analysts.
• Complete all work in compliance with site‑specific certified Earned Value Management System.
• Analyze project reporting and provide corrective actions to mitigate project risk.
• Integrate cost and schedule data/baseline with the company’s enterprise system to facilitate project financial goals, or oversee this effort.
• Lead efforts for tracking budget, project costs, labor hours, schedule updates, installed quantities, and progress measurements for work to include direct hire and subcontracted work.
• Maintain planning/scheduling updates, applying engineering, procurement, and construction terminology, concepts, and relationships. Develop and maintain critical‑path logic networks and bar charts.
• Analyze, evaluate, and forecast current estimate status against an established baseline schedule. Assess the impacts of design or construction changes and schedule delays. Report schedule status to all levels of project and company management as well as to the client.
• Prepare reports, graphs, and charts to communicate project status.
• Support the Project team with the change‑control management process. Support project with pricing and determining schedule impact of change orders.
• Perform critical path and time‑impact analysis to document current conditions and change management on the project.
• Analyze work progress and craft productivity reports, use this analysis to update project forecast.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, accounting, finance, or other associated degree; relevant work experience in lieu of degree considered.
• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, perform, review, and present planning and scheduling products independently with minimal supervision, using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to engineering, procurement, and construction practices.
• Proven expertise with Common Data Environments, BIM/VDC, model‑based delivery, and digital twin concepts.
• Strong understanding of ISO 19650.
• Previous Earned Value Management System experience.
• Previous nuclear or large industrial project experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Motivated, detail‑oriented, and flexible.
• Ability to direct and manage a team to achieve project goals.
• Strong knowledge of Primavera P6 with a strong understanding of scheduling fundamentals.
• Ability to work under pressure and with minimal supervision.
• Proficient with reporting tools such as Power BI, Excel, etc.
• Previous experience managing project controls teams.
• Flexibility to respond to urgent project requests and/or changing priorities.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook).

Other Requirements

• Regular, reliable attendance.
• Work productively and meet deadlines timely.
• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
• Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
• Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
• May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.
• Openings are to fill both existing vacancies and newly created positions.

Base Compensation: $150,000/year - $180,000/year

(Actual compensation is subject to variation due to such factors as education, experience, skillset, and/or location)

We offer our full‑time staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top‑tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

We believe in equal opportunity in employment practices without discrimination and comply with all laws regarding human rights in the provinces where we operate.