Project Manager, Program Delivery Controls and Configuration Management at EHTC in Canada

Job description

• The Project Manager, Program Delivery Controls, Change and Configuration Management provides leadership across integrated program controls and second-line assurance for the Rapid Transit Program. The role provides independent, evidence-based challenge to project delivery teams while working collaboratively with project teams to strengthen controls, identify emerging issues, and support informed decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead and integrate cost, schedule, risk, contingency and quality controls across the RT Program.
• Provide second-line assurance and constructive challenge to project delivery teams on performance, forecasts, assumptions, risks and mitigation strategies.
• Review and validate project data, identifying inconsistencies, emerging trends and potential areas of concern.
• Provide Program-level intelligence and insights to support senior management and executive decision-making.
• Work with the risk and other controls leads to provide risk-based assurance reviews and targeted deep dives where additional oversight is required.
• Provide oversight of risk exposure, risk ownership and contingency allocation, including alignment between risk exposure and available contingency
• Identify common risks, trends and lessons learned across projects and promote their application across the Program.
• Challenge cost forecasts, EACs, schedule performance, key milestones and recovery plans.
• Develop and improve Program-level KPIs, dashboards, reporting and controls processes.
• Lead the Program baseline governance framework, ensuring requirements, scope, schedule, cost and risk baselines are established, maintained and governed through appropriate approval processes.
• Provide oversight of Program change control processes, including change governance, impact assessments, interface change coordination and compliance with established approval authorities.
• Lead configuration management practices to maintain alignment between approved requirements, design, scope, assets, documents and approved baselines throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitor and assess the effectiveness of baseline management, change control and configuration management processes through audits, assurance reviews and compliance reporting.
• Work closely with Capital Insights, Finance, Risk, Internal Audit and project delivery teams to strengthen the overall assurance framework and avoid duplication.
• Work with the project delivery teams and other Metrolinx teams to understand and support improvements to the engineering, safety, and operations assurance framework.
• Support the development and implement a Progressive Assurance Regime that provides confidence that requirements, baselines, changes and configurations are managed consistently across the Program.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement within the Program Controls, Performance, and Assurance team.

Requirements

• Completion of a degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Business, Architecture or a related discipline – or a combination of education, training and experience deemed equivalent Engineering or Architectural college/ university degree or diploma
• Demonstrated experience in project/program controls, risk, assurance, change management or project management, preferably in major capital infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of cost, schedule, risk, contingency and change baseline governance and configuration management.
• Experience establishing and managing governance frameworks, stage-gate reviews, assurance processes and program controls within complex capital programs.
• Knowledge of requirements management, baseline management, change governance and configuration control within major infrastructure or systems-based environments is considered a strong asset.
• Experience working across complex, multi-project programs.
• Experience with program/project assurance or governance frameworks is an asset.
• Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
• Experience with tools such as Power BI, EcoSys, Unifier or equivalent is desirable.
• Experience with PDB, Alliance or other collaborative delivery models is an asset.

Skills

Required

• project/program controls
• risk management
• assurance
• change management
• project management
• cost control
• schedule control
• contingency management
• baseline governance
• configuration management
• governance frameworks
• stage-gate reviews

Preferred

• requirements management
• baseline management
• change governance
• configuration control
• Power BI
• EcoSys
• Unifier
• PDB