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:
- Bachelor’s 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.
In this posting, the masculine form is used for ease of reading.
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
Alcoa’s 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 progress. Our 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.
