Project Controller

4 weeks ago


Houston, Texas, United States TC Energy Full time

Determined. Imaginative. Curious. If these are some of the ways you describe yourself - we want to learn more about you At TC Energy, we are Energy Problem Solvers - passionate about transitioning North America to cleaner energy while meeting the energy demands of today and tomorrow. If that sounds like a challenge you want to help tackle, we want you to join our team

Posting Close Date: June 4th, 2024

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.


About our business

TC Energy is a leading energy infrastructure company in North America. We have three complementary businesses of natural gas pipelines, liquids (oil) pipelines, and power generation. Our operations span three countries, seven Canadian provinces, and 34 U.S. states.

TC Energy is an equal opportunity employer.

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Thank you for choosing TC Energy in your career search.

Depending on qualifications, the successful candidate may be offered a position at a more appropriate level and/or ladder.

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country in which the position is based with no restrictions.

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TC Energy is committed to provide employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, without regard to race, religion, age, sex, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available on request during the recruitment process. Applicants with disabilities can request accessible formats or communication supports by contacting

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