Senior Cost Specialist, Project Controls

TransAlta
Calgary
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Detail-oriented","Communication","Proactive","Organizational","Collaboration"]

Support a portfolio of large-scale energy construction projects by developing, maintaining, and analyzing schedules, cost forecasts, and performance metrics. Track cost, schedule, and change-management activities to identify variances, risks, and trends. Produce regular project controls reports and dashboards, collaborate with project teams to align to baselines, and support risk and change control documentation. Improve project controls tools, templates, and reporting practices.

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Senior Cost Specialist, Project Controls

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Job Summary

Support a portfolio of large-scale energy construction projects by developing, maintaining, and analyzing schedules, cost forecasts, and performance metrics. Track cost, schedule, and change-management activities to identify variances, risks, and trends. Produce regular project controls reports and dashboards, collaborate with project teams to align to baselines, and support risk and change control documentation. Improve project controls tools, templates, and reporting practices.
Location: Calgary
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Support the development, maintenance, and analysis of project schedules, cost forecasts, and performance metrics across assigned capital projects.
  • •Track and monitor cost, schedule, and change-management activities to identify variances, risks, and emerging trends.
  • •Prepare regular project controls reports and dashboards to support project teams and leadership decision making.
  • •Collaborate with project managers, engineers, construction, and procurement teams to ensure alignment to approved baselines and controls processes.
  • •Support risk management activities and change control documentation, including scope, cost, and schedule impacts, and maintain project controls documentation per internal standards.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Pension PlanHealth InsurancePaid LeaveWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •Experience in project controls, project scheduling, cost control, or project coordination for major capital or industrial projects.
  • •Strong understanding of cost, schedule, forecasting, and performance measurement principles.
  • •Comfort working with project controls systems, scheduling tools, and Excel-based reporting.
  • •Detail-oriented approach to producing accurate, reliable data and analysis.
  • •Ability to communicate complex information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
Experience:ConstructionEnergyCapital projectsIndustrial
Skills:Detail-orientedCommunicationProactiveOrganizationalCollaboration
Tech Stack:Excel

Company Brief

TransAlta
Owns and operates a diversified fleet of power generation assets, including wind, hydro, gas, and thermal facilities. Supplies electricity and energy solutions to utilities, businesses, and communities across North America and Australia.
Industry: Utilities
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Calgary, Canada
Founded: 1909
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