Regional Manager – Investment Project Controls

Shape Your World

At Alcoa you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it every Alcoan is a work-shaper team-shaper idea-shaper & world-shaper.

Reporting to the North America Investment Projects leadership team you are responsible for defining deploying and continuously improving project control practices across our North American operations.

You ensure clear reliable and proactive visibility into the performance of the project portfolio enabling informed strategic decisions and securing value creation. You act as a key partner to project teams and stakeholders to strengthen execution discipline and organizational maturity.

Key responsibilities include:

Define and deploy regional project control standards
Establish and evolve best practices in cost schedule forecasting change management and risk management and ensure their adoption.

Ensure performance management and executive visibility
Consolidate and analyze portfolio performance (variances trends risks) and produce reliable decision-oriented dashboards.

Ensure the quality and reliability of project data
Oversee estimates budgets forecasts and variance analyses to support informed data-driven decision-making.

Orchestrate change and risk management
Implement robust processes to assess approve and track change impacts while integrating risks into forecasts.

Establish disciplined project governance
Structure performance reviews escalation mechanisms and decision-making processes to strengthen execution rigor.

Develop capabilities and support continuous improvement
Coach project controls teams optimize tools and processes and promote a culture of analytical and operational excellence.

What you bring to the role:

Bachelors degree in Engineering Finance Business Administration or a related field;
Project Management certification (PMP) is an asset;
8 to 12 years of experience in project controls (cost schedule) in an industrial investment or infrastructure environment;
Proven experience in implementing processes standards and governance mechanisms across multiple teams or sites;
Strong knowledge of project control concepts (estimating budgeting forecasting variance analysis KPIs) and stage-gate / CAPEX processes;
Ability to develop dashboards and analyses (advanced Excel planning and reporting tools) to support decision-making;
Ability to influence constructively challenge and communicate effectively with multidisciplinary stakeholders;
Bilingualism (French and English) is required due to the nature of the role including interactions with stakeholders across North America.

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Alcoa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and an affirmative action employer.

We are also part of global inclusion groups (AWARE AWN EAGLE ABLE).

Only candidates selected for the process will be contacted.

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About the Location

Alcoas Canadian headquarters in Montreal is located in the economic lung of Quebec in the heart of a dynamic city young and at the forefront of innovation. Working for Alcoa in Montreal means getting to the heart of issues in the Quebec Canadian and international context. Our company supports career development and there are many opportunities for our team to progress.

We are values led vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real commitments to Inclusion Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe respectful and inclusive of all individuals free from discrimination bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.

This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work be your authentic self and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.