Senior Project Cost Control Consultant in Vancouver

At Accenture Construct, you'll help deliver the data centers, power grids, rail networks, factories and public infrastructure that keep communities moving — smarter, safer and more sustainably. You'll work alongside project managers, engineers, technologists and strategists who pair real-world delivery with AI. We take on whole programs, from early strategy through construction and handover.

Provide temporary, term, or specialized Project Controls resources at junior, intermediate, senior, lead, and advisory levels to support project delivery, governance, reporting, administration, assurance, and continuous improvement initiatives. Provide commercial management, contract administration, and commercial advisory services including:

• Procurement support
• Contract governance
• Contract administration
• Commercial evaluations
• Contract negotiations
• Amendment and change order management
• Claims and dispute resolution support
• Invoice and contractual compliance reviews
• Commitment and obligation tracking
• Reporting and contract closeout activities

Support the project execution team on cost, time, schedule, change management, and reporting for successful project delivery. Develop a plan for integrated project controls including scope, cost, schedule, and progress of assigned projects based on industry best practices and by incorporating client’s requirements when required. Facilitate the change management process and continuously forecast project schedule and cost impacts.

Review and analyze project information and provide guidance to the project execution team on the project health. Prepare and review project controls gate deliverables with Project Managers and Engineers. Follow procedures for consistency and predictability, and escalate any improvement of deficiency in the process or procedures.

Establish the resources and organization needed to achieve the control strategy to ensure the consistent implementation of the project control system for all projects. Formulate the overall Project Breakdown Structure to meet all control requirements and ensure that cost control and scheduling systems are compatible.

Determine training materials needed to train project teams on the principles of schedule, cost, risk, and earned value management, and plan and procedures. Draft a detailed monthly report by gathering progress details through the collection and verification of information. Coordinate a management review and issue the report by the agreed deadline each month including cost, schedule, earned value, change control, contract administration, third-party recoveries, contingency utilization, and progress photos.

Complete any tasks assigned by the supervisor in an efficient and timely manner.

Working Conditions: Office-based (4 Days a week in Office)

Experience: Minimum of 10 years of related experience on large capital projects.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or Finance.

Skills and Competencies:

• In-depth experience in computer-based scheduling systems (Primavera P6 and MS Project)
• Comprehensive knowledge of practices and procedures involved in project controls, with proven experience in the construction process
• Solid understanding of core project control concepts (WBS, RBS, CBS, CPM-based scheduling, and Earned Value)
• Ability to arrange priorities and elevate competing risks to meet deadlines with minimum input from leadership
• Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities
• Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving technical information (written and verbal)
• Must foster positive relationships with various internal and external stakeholders
• Independently tailor technical information for different audiences through presentations, reports, and other means
• Expert ability to work collaboratively and independently in a structured, disciplined, technology-driven environment

Compensation: The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Role Location Annual Salary Range: British Columbia $118,000 to $177,000

What's in it for you:

• The biggest builds going. Hyperscale data centers, grid and generation, transit and rail, chip fabs, mines, water.
• You own the outcome. Not a workstream. Not a deliverable.
• AI that shows up on site. Program control that predicts instead of records.
• Scale without the distance. More than 5,000 practitioners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
• Serious investment in you. Leadership development, technical upskilling and certification support.
• Work that outlasts you. People will use what you build for forty years without knowing your name.
• Recognition that means something in this industry.

Accenture Construct is Accenture's global capital projects business. We plan them, engineer them, deliver them and hand them over — and unlike most of this market, we're on the hook for whether they land on time.