Project Controls Specialist

As a Project Controls Specialist, you will work with cross-functional teams by ensuring proper cost structures, procedures, and controls are in place so we can deliver safely, on time, and within budget, our annual Turnaround events taking place at our refinery in Saint John, NB.

What We Offer:

• Work Environment – Work and grow within Canada’s largest Refinery, with strong safety culture, access to a fitness facility, an onsite medical team, and a café.

• Competitive Compensation – Including an annual bonus plan, and pension plan

• Flexible Benefits Plan – in effect from day one and offers three levels of coverage to select from to meet your unique, personal needs.

• Paid Vacation – Plus an annual option to purchase additional vacation, too

• Wellness Support – With 24/7 access to our Employee & Family Assistance Program

Your Responsibilities:

• Participate in contractor kickoff and ongoing status meetings to drive consistency, ensuring effective and accurate cost management.

• Review and validate contractor quotes against the project baseline to identify variances.

• Evaluate and process all TA related requisitions.

• Gather and compile accurate cost management data from various sources to prepare accurate project cost reports and forecasts, monthly or weekly as required.

• Incorporate changes from the change notification form (CNF) process into cost forecast.

• Develop TA event cashflow plans including contingency drawdown.

• Support the development of Class 5 to Class 2 estimates, including checks, and recast into cost control system.

• Analyze variances in cost, schedule performance (CPI & SPI) and communicate issues and reasons for the variances, propose mitigation plans.

• Collect data to support TA event dashboard reports including schedule performance SPI, earned value, performance factor (PF), direct field resources (DFR)

• Control cost and reporting in accordance with the work breakdown and cost coding structures.

• Establish strong working relationships with Supply Management, Construction Management, Block Lead, Coordinators, Contractors, Scheduling and Estimating.

Your Skills:

• Strong data analyst skills with large data; able to provide meaningful, accurate numbers with recommendations.

• Strong understanding of Earned Value Measurement in construction.

• Proven ability to meet deadlines.

• Communication and presentation skills; able to tell a compelling story based on accurate data.

• Proficient with MS Office: MSAccess, Excel, Power BI, Word, PowerPoint, Oracle Projects.

Your Experience:

• Post-secondary education in Trades, Technology, Engineering, Business, or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 2+ years of experience, in a directly related role.

• Engineering, Construction or Project Management experience an asset.

• Primavera P6 scheduling experience an asset.

• AACE (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) or PMP (Project Management Professional) designation an asset.

• Experience in an industrial construction environment an asset.

Irving Oil is committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive work environment. We thrive on the good energy that’s created when our people from different backgrounds, identities, cultures and experiences share their unique perspectives. Diversity is key to our success and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.​

In a world increasingly engaged in taking action on global issues of climate change, social justice and good corporate governance, our organization has an important role to play. We are committed to being part of the solution, in providing the safe and reliable energy that people need, while taking concrete steps to evolve our business for the future - for our people, our customers and our communities, today and tomorrow.

Please take a look at our Sustainability Report to learn more about our commitment to our communities, and our planet.

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