Project & Control Officer

• Location: Pickering, Ontario, Canada
• Salary: $75 - 82 per hour
• Category

• Sector:
• Contract type Contract
• Consultant: Olivia Mackey

• Project team member responsible for coordinating, facilitating, and driving the Front-End Planning processes.
• Review and provide input into project scoping, Work Breakdown Structures, and Basis of Estimates.
• With support of project team members, develop integrated, logically tied, resource loaded project schedules (Primavera) which incorporate identified scope, risks, estimates/budgets, and constraints to the individual task level for field execution.
• With support of project team members, establish project budgets, contingency, and milestones.
• Support and author Business Case Summary development.
• Ensure detail, accuracy, and quality is adequate to allow monitoring and control of project to ensure successful completion of cost, schedule, and scope commitments.

• Develop and maintain updated and accurate conceptual phase schedule. Maintain alignment between source systems and project control systems throughout project life cycle.
• Perform weekly schedule updates.
• Perform weekly cost and schedule analysis.
• Update schedule and cost forecasts accordingly.
• Facilitate project metrics reporting and variance analysis.
• Identify actual and potential deviations from the approved annual, release, or life cycle budgets or schedules to the Project Manager.
• Recommend corrective actions.

• Ensure approved change control processes are followed.
• Prepare and obtain approval of applicable change control documentation.
• Timely update of project cost and schedule once change approval or direction has been approved. Perform “what if” analysis for project team.
• Maintain project baseline integrity.

• Maintain the project schedule such that it accurately reflects the current project plan, including field execution.
• Reconciliation of financial systems and project controls system.
• Remediate any discrepancies and maintain alignment.
• Ensure accurate project cost forecasting. Ensure accurate schedule updating/statusing.
• Maintain project schedule quality and accuracy.
• Critical path, float, predecessor and successor tasks identified, activities logically tied, minimal restraints, etc.
• Monitor/verify standard project reports for accuracy.

• Ensure applicable source systems are set up correctly to maintain alignment between costs and assigned budgets in project plan.
• Populate project control systems to accurately capture and allow monitoring of costs.
• Monitor contractor cost and schedule performance against project plan and identify actual or potential discrepancies to Project Manager.

• 5-8 years OPG/Project Controls/Project Management experience
• Advanced Excel skills considered an asset
• P6 certificate is considered an asset (not required)
• ECOSYS experience is considered an asset (not required)

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