Project Control Specialist 2 - Water and Waste Water Infrastructure

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At Graham, one of North America’s largest general contractors, we don’t just build projects, we connect communities and create pathways for progress. As part of our Infrastructure Division, you’ll contribute to transformative work across the region, including roads, highways, bridges, interchanges, light rail transit systems, bus rapid transit systems, and airports.

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Your Impact Starts Here

Graham is actively recruiting for a Project Controls Specialist to support the Water & Wastewater Infrastructure Division. Reporting to the Project Controls Manager, this role partners with project teams to establish, maintain, and optimize project controls processes and systems throughout the project lifecycle. The Project Controls Specialist acts as a trusted advisor to operations teams, supporting project startup, cost control, scheduling, progress measurement, change management, and reporting activities. This position plays a key role in ensuring project teams leverage standardized project controls processes, data, and technology to drive informed decision-making, improve project performance, and mitigate risk.

Your Role in Building What Matters – From Office to Site

• Support Project Setup and Execution: Partner with project teams during project startup to establish budgets, work breakdown structures, schedules, reporting frameworks, and project controls systems that provide the foundation for successful project execution
• Lead Adoption of Project Controls Processes and Tools: Promote and support the consistent use of Graham's project controls standards, procedures, and systems. Provide coaching and guidance to project teams to improve project controls maturity and ensure adherence to established practices
• Develop and Maintain Project Controls Systems: Support the setup, administration, and ongoing maintenance of project controls platforms and reporting tools. Work closely with operations and project teams to ensure project data is accurate, timely, and aligned with business requirements
• Monitor Performance and Identify Risks: Analyze project performance metrics, trends, forecasts, schedules, and cost data to identify emerging risks, opportunities, and areas requiring management attention. Proactively escalate concerns and support mitigation planning
• Support Change Management and Decision-Making: Facilitate change management processes and provide meaningful reporting, analysis, and recommendations to project stakeholders. Deliver actionable insights that support confident operational and financial decision-making
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve project controls processes, reporting capabilities, and system utilization. Participate in the implementation of new tools, enhancements, testing activities, and best practice initiatives across the division
  
  

The Right Tools for the Job

• Education: Diploma, technical training, or university degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Accounting, or a related field
• Experience: 4-7 years of experience in project controls, project management, construction, or a related discipline. Experience supporting large industrial, infrastructure, civil, or water/wastewater projects is considered an asset. Experience in multiple project controls disciplines including cost control, planning/scheduling, progress measurement, forecasting, or change management is preferred
• Technical & Functional Skills: Strong understanding of project controls principles and practices including cost control, forecasting, sheduling and planning, progress measurement, change management, project reporting. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and the Microsoft Office Suite. Experience with Primavera P6 is considered an asset. Hands-on experience with InEight is highly desirable. Experience implementing or optimizing project controls systems and digital workflows is considered an asset
  
  

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