Job Description

Why join us?

SNC-Lavalin provides cutting-edge engineering, procurement, construction and financing solutions to projects in more than 100 countries around the world. From the Canadian Arctic to the Southern African region and Australasia, our multicultural workforce is driven by a fierce pride in their work and a pioneering vision.

SNC-Lavalin is truly a global leader in its field and has been chosen to design and build some of the most prestigious projects in the world.

The Infrastructure-Major Projects business unit is seeking a Senior Cost Controller to join our team for a current Design & Build project in Canada. Your primary role will be to capture and provide a realistic picture of project\xe2\x80\x99s costs, monitor the progress and forecast cost to go. Another responsibility is to support project delivery managers and procurement to undertake their scope. Strong interpersonal skills and collaboration with management team and key stakeholders is a must for this position.

Your role within the team:

To perform this role successfully, the candidate will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

Ensure actual costs are representative of the value of the work done, which also includes working closely with construction, procurement and finance to capture the accruals.

Ensure progress of different scopes of work is captured and reported to enable monitoring of the project performance via the Earned Value System.

Maintain budgets to reflect scope changes and also changes to execution strategy; support the change management process.

Contribute to Major Reforecasting exercise on a periodic basis.

Develop performance KPI\xe2\x80\x99s in collaboration with delivery managers and report on a regular basis.

Establish and produce weekly and monthly progress and performance reports, recording variances to planned values and recommending corrective actions.

Identify and report value engineering and cost reduction opportunities.

The ideal candidate:

Holds an engineering degree in a related field, preferably civil engineering.

A minimum of 10 years previous experience with top-tier construction / engineering companies in rail and transit sector in field engineering and / or project controls.

Strong overall knowledge of project controls and Earned Value Management principles.

Experience with one or more top-tier ERP systems (JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, Prism, etc.,).

Large project experience (
$500M), preferably EPC or Design & Build type projects.

Exceptional planning and organizational skills with strong verbal and written communication skills and fluency in English, a second language (French or Spanish) is an asset.

Certified CCP, EVM, PSP from AACEI as asset.

Why choose SNC-Lavalin as an employer?

We offer:

The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients;

An exciting environment where work-life balance is important;

A wide array of learning and development opportunities

Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan and a defined contribution pension plan

A work environment focused on health and safety

Are you up for this challenge? Apply today and join our team to help engineer a Better Future for our Planet and its People.



The masculine gender is used only to simplify the wording.

Appropriate accommodations will be provided upon request throughout the recruitment and hiring process as required by Company policy and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Successful applicants will be notified about SNC-Lavalin\xe2\x80\x99s accommodation policies at the time the employment offer is extended, and the information will be shared with new personnel during the onboarding process.

At SNC-Lavalin, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

SNC-Lavalin cares about your privacy. SNC-Lavalin and other subsidiary or affiliated companies of SNC-Lavalin (referred to throughout as \xe2\x80\x9cSNC-Lavalin\xe2\x80\x9d) are committed to protecting your privacy. Please consult our on our Careers site to know more about how we collect, use and transfer your Personal Data.

By submitting your personal information to SNC-Lavalin, you confirm that you have read and accept our Privacy Notice.

Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin is a fully integrated professional services and project management company with offices around the world dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, technology and data to design, deliver and operate the most complex projects. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital \xe2\x80\x93 and delivered to clients in key strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear, Operations & Maintenance and Capital. News and information are available at or follow us on and .

Worker Type Employee

Job Type Regular

At SNC-Lavalin, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

SNC-Lavalin cares about your privacy. SNC-Lavalin and other subsidiary or affiliated companies of SNC-Lavalin (referred to throughout as \xe2\x80\x9cSNC-Lavalin\xe2\x80\x9d) are committed to protecting your privacy. Please consult our on our Careers site to know more about how we collect, use and transfer your Personal Data.

By submitting your personal information to SNC-Lavalin, you confirm that you have read and accept our Privacy Notice.

SNC-Lavalin