Location: Vancouver
Employment Type: Contractor
Workplace Type: Hybrid

About our Vancouver Office

Located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, between the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountains, Teck’s Corporate Office sits in one of Canada’s most culturally diverse cities. 

Surrounded by world-renowned nature and globally inspired cuisine, the office brings together many of Teck’s corporate functions - all working toward Teck’s purpose of providing the essential resources the world relies on.

Reporting to the Technology Manager, Copper Growth, the Project Controls Specialist will be responsible for integrating scope, schedule, cost and procurement plans and activities to ensure alignment in progress monitoring and reporting of Teck Digital Systems (TDS) technologies for Highland Valley Copper (HVC) Mine Life Extension (MLE) project, part of TDS Copper Growth program. Teck’s Copper Growth program is a multi-year strategy to provide our world with the critical copper to support energy transition. Teck has potential to develop 10 new mining operations in the next decade! The TDS Copper Growth Program has the goal to deliver and deploy technologies for these operations in a cost effective, consistent, and scalable way.

Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to be part of one of Canada's leading mining companies and join our team!

Responsibilities

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures.
• Maintain and demonstrate Teck’s commitment to safety and environmental protection as a core value.
• Responsible for ensuring TDS Project Management Office (PMO) standards, procedures and guidelines are properly applied and followed on the project.
• Assist in developing and reviewing project Work Breakdown Structures, work packages, cost estimations, resource forecasts, and schedules.
• Responsible for schedule planning and development, reviews, resource allocation, progress and performance measurement, schedule analysis, forecasting and status reporting. This is a hands-on role requiring development of schedules in MS Project Online and providing schedule expertise and guidance to the project team.
• Responsible for providing support and interface with Project Accounting and/or Business Unit Finance groups.
• Responsible for providing timely, accurate, and in-depth analysis of project health with respect to trends and variances on progress, schedule, costs, and resources.
• Provide root cause analysis and recommend corrective actions for project variances.
• Responsible to arrange and facilitate weekly project controls review meetings, change management meetings, or any other regularly occurring meeting, as appropriate.
• Responsible for preparation of the project weekly and monthly reports.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in finance, business, accounting, computer science or engineering.
• 5+ years of project controls experience, with preference to mining/industrial projects, is required.
• Excellent knowledge of project management theory, especially in time and cost management, is required.
• Experience with progress measurement and earned value measurement systems is required
• Hands on experience in developing and progressing resource loaded schedules in MS Project is required.
• Strong knowledge of the engineering and construction industry is an asset.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, are required.
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills as well as able to prioritize and meet deadlines is required.
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty with project scopes is preferred
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving abilities are required.
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point, SharePoint and other Office 365 applications.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities are required.
• CCP, CEP, PMP or other similar designations considered an asset.

Teck—A great place to work

You already know Teck is a great place to work. It’s also a great place to grow your career.

As a leading Canadian resource company, you’re part of a team that is focused on responsibly providing the metals essential for global development and the energy transition while caring for the people, communities and land that we love. And we do this guided by our values, which together form The Teck Way.

Grow with us

Take the next step in your career by applying for the Project Controls Specialist (Contract) role. At Teck, we believe in developing our people and supporting career growth from within.

As an internal candidate, your application may be reviewed in coordination with your current leader and and the hiring manager. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every listed qualification.

We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, barrier-free hiring process. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

Requisition ID: 52694 | Job Category: Technology | Employment Type: Contractor | Location: Vancouver | Workplace Type: Hybrid