The Opportunity

We are currently looking to add a Project Controller to our Project Controls Programs & Interconnect team in Houston, TX or Charleston, WV.

Reporting to the Manager, Project Controls Programs & Interconnects, the Project Controller is responsible for providing detailed capital project cost support, including purchase requisitions, invoice attestation to ensure monitoring, forecasting and controlling of the project budget.

What you'll do

• Conduct accounting transfers to ensure proper cost placement

• Maintain work orders through SAP/PowerPlan

• Project Initiation (including SAP/PowerPlan)

• Continuously work on requisition closeout

• Partner with Field Material Coordinator to ensure materials tracking is performed

• Coordinate with Project Team to review data to ensure commitments, schedule requirements, and risk items are accurately represented in the project forecast

• Collaborate with the Project Manager and team to define construction cost tracking based on purchase order terms ensuring proper link with schedule

• Track use of contingency, management reserve, and approved changes to project budget

• Analyze, track, and report project (or contract specific) financial KPIs, and communicate their status to the project team

• Contribute to and implement Project Delivery requirements (i.e., PDS, TOMS and any applicable TC Project Delivery requirement)

• Participate in project meetings; gather, prepare, and analyze data for Quantitative or Qualitative Risk Assessments; ensure risk information is incorporated into the project forecast

• Resolve unexpected items or inaccuracies in forecast data

• Support the Project Manager by providing financial reporting requirements for bidding, during contract selection and administration of the contracts as required

• Perform Final Cost Reconciliation

• Secure records properly and in compliance with TransCanada's requirements

• Identify opportunities for improvement to forecasting and other project cost control methodologies and document as lessons learned

• Maintain high level of focus on health, safety, and environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• University degree or graduation from a technical college program

• 4 or more years of related experience

• Knowledgeable and experienced with cost engineering principles and methods including budgeting and forecasting, change management, management systems/procedures, Cost and Work Breakdown Structures, Earned Value Systems and contingency management

• Experience with Microsoft Desktop software, Windows, Word, Excel, and Power Point.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven supportive team member who helps oversee, lead, advise and motivate a work team

• Knowledge and some experience with project and portfolio management processes, policies and principles

• Working knowledge of the principles of version control and the change management processes

• Ability to analyze project cost data/status and to communicate those findings to Project Management.

To remain competitive, support our high-performance culture and allow for more flexibility in the way we work, we offer a hybrid work model and flexible dress code for our eligible office-based workforce in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. #LI-Hybrid.