Cost Manager
SNC-Lavalin
- Kincardine, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Overall responsibility for compliance of assigned projects with project controls standards - both from applicable contract documents and from shoreline project controls policies/guidelines.
- Manage developing, establishing, and maintaining the company’s project cost /control systems.
- Manage efforts to ensure continuity between project estimates and project baseline.
- Oversee the project team in converting project bids to setting up the complete, performance measurement baseline in the company’s project controls (prism) system.
- Assist in set up project accounting systems (cost codes, job cost processing procedures, project rules of credit).
- Provide support to commercial & procurement teams on subcontractor claims assessment, client claims development, negotiations & dispute resolutions.
- Provide commercial and technical expertise to support proposal development and provide commercial input into contractually defined project control requirements.
- Ensure adherence to all contract conditions regarding project controls requirements, project set-up, monitoring & close-out.
- 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).
- Train the project team on how to implement the change management procedures.
- Maintain and support the improvement of the change management system in compliance with contract conditions and shoreline’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.
- Oversee the 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.
- Oversee the 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.
- Supervise and mentor project control staff.
- Participate in customer and internal management project status reporting meetings.
- 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.
- Create, promote, and maintain a safe, open & respectful workplace culture and environment.Provide feedback & guidance to direct reports for annual goal setting; support in the establishment of individual career development plans and in identifying training & professional development opportunities.
- Supervise project controls planning and scheduling staff.
- Direct support of project management to monitor and report project financial status.
- Fiscal responsibility as required by the joint venture agreement.
- The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
- An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
- A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
- Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
- A work environment focused on health and safety.
- 10-15 years of related experience.
- College and/or university degree in related field, or applicable work experience
- Applied knowledge of the “earned value” principles.
- Applied knowledge of project management and project controls principles
- Applied knowledge of cost engineering/cost control.
- Organizational skills in order to handle multiple tasks within a high-pressure work site environment.
- Interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral).
- Ability to work effectively with all levels of management and employees.
- Able to travel to remote job or work location.
- Flexibility to relocate or work away from home.
- Variety of jobsite conditions (office, nuclear environment, outdoors).
- Due to the nature of work conducted by shoreline, mandated nuclear export controls requirements must be met for employment.
- Our background check process includes a full security check and clearance process as well as reference checks. The security clearance process includes a comprehensive list of previous residences, employment, education and other pertinent information. Those with a valid bruce power security clearance are strongly preferred.