Senior Manager, Program Delivery Controls & Performance

Role Overview

Join Metrolinx as a Senior Manager to lead the day-to-day oversight and direction of a team of Controls and Performance professionals supporting program-level controls performance functions. This includes providing oversight and assurance across the CPG Rapid Transit portfolio, including subway and LRT projects.

What You Will Do

Ensure program controls processes are implemented consistently across the Rapid Transit Program and on the projects in accordance with CPG processes and standards. Create, implement, and execute proper controls reporting to proactively support, monitor, and communicate budget, actual status, and forecast for cost and delivery timeframes for Rapid Transit projects over their lifecycle.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires exceptional leadership skills to motivate a team, set high standards and clear expectations, manage expectations and outputs. Excellent problem-solving and influencing skills are also required to establish effective working relationships, negotiate and deal with a variety of contacts both internal and external to the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, project management, or related technical field
• Demonstrated experience with increasing responsibility in the Management of Project Controls on large projects
• Transportation project experience and specifically transit experience is a plus
• Active membership or accreditation in AACE, PMI, or similar association is an asset
• Exceptionally skilled in project controls theory, principles and practice
• Demonstrable highly skilled experience of reasoned decision-making in high pressure and paced environments
• Demonstrable highly skilled experience of successfully managing competing objectives of external and internal stakeholders and recognizing materiality
• Excellent problem solving and influencing skills to establish effective working relationships, negotiate and deal with a variety of contacts both internal and external to the organization
• Ability to communicate/interface effectively with senior management (e.g. CEO and CCO) and external stakeholders (e.g. Government representatives and Delivery Partners)
• Ability to engage and influence a wide variety of portfolio, program and project resources including but not limited to Engineers, Project Controls Professionals, Project Managers and External Stakeholders
• Excellent leadership skills to motivate a team, set high standards and clear expectations, manage expectations and outputs
• Excellent oral and interpersonal skills with demonstrated success working effectively and collaboratively in a large, integrated, matrix team environment at all levels of an organization

Benefits

• Accommodation for people with disabilities
• Equitable and inclusive employer
• Flexible work arrangements
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive salary and benefits package