The Senior Manager, Project Support Services provides leadership and oversight for centralized and standardized project support activities that enable consistent, disciplined execution/delivery of capital projects. This role is accountable for establishing and maintaining common practices for planning, controls, reporting, and governance across projects to support predictable delivery, financial control, and transparency. The position supports effective capital stewardship by ensuring accurate forecasting, performance visibility, documentation integrity, and alignment with approved governance frameworks.
You Will:Manage centralized, standardized practices for project planning, scheduling, cost control, forecasting, and change management across capital projects to provide senior leadership with critical information and project trends.
Manage timely, accurate project reporting, dashboards, and analytics to support leadership decision-making.
Establish consistent approaches to integrated project schedules, budgets, forecasts, and performance reporting.
Monitor project expenditures, commitments, accruals, and trends against approved plans and authorizations.
Ensure disciplined change control with clear visibility into scope, schedule, cost, and risk impacts.
Provide variance analysis, earned value insights, and forward-looking forecasts to enable proactive performance management.
Ensure project baselines, assumptions, and supporting documentation are maintained to support transparency and governance oversight.
Manage centralized resource planning, allocation, and utilization tracking in alignment with execution priorities and financial constraints.
Support development of multi-year capital and resource forecasts in coordination with Engineering, Operations, and Finance.
Monitor external benchmarks and execution strategies to compare to internal best practices in order to help evaluate and implement continuous improvement opportunities.
Provide oversight of project controls, scheduling, financial, and analytics systems, ensuring consistent use, data quality, and reporting integrity.
Manage and coordinate Asset Investment Planning activities using Copperleaf, supporting alignment between capital priorities, investment scenarios, funding assumptions, and approved governance decisions.
Drive continuous improvement in standardized processes, tools, and reporting that support capital project delivery.
Serve as a key liaison between project teams, functional partners, and leadership to ensure alignment and timely issue escalation.
Partner with Project Managers, Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and external contractors and consultants to support effective execution of fully integrated project plan, schedule and cost management with real time updates based on time and money spent.
Manage, mentor, and develop project controls and planning staff, setting clear expectations and accountability for performance.
Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor on standardized planning, budgeting, forecasting, and project controls practices.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Economics, or Project Management
10+ years of experience in project controls, planning, budgeting, or capital project delivery
5+ years of leadership or people management experience
Experience supporting large infrastructure or utility capital programs preferred
Project management and field construction experience an asset
Strong knowledge of project controls, scheduling, forecasting, and project accounting
Proficiency with Primavera P6, ERP systems, Power BI, and MS Office
Expertise in earned value management, variance analysis, and change control
Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
Proven ability to lead teams, drive standardization, and enable data-driven decisions
We offer a competitive salary range of $149,200 to $195,000 per year, commensurate with experience, education, and skills. In addition, we provide a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.
The Company values diversity in its workforce and encourages United States military veterans and service members who meet the qualifications to apply
Why work at AltaGas?
AltaGas is a North American energy infrastructure company with a focus on owning and operating assets that provide affordable energy to our customers. AltaGas assets include Washington Gas/WGL, SEMCO, and Petrogas. Our talented team, nearly 3,000 strong, leverages the strength of our assets and expertise along the energy value chain to connect customers with premier energy solutions – from the well sites of upstream producers to the doorsteps of homes and businesses to new markets around the world.
We deliver clean and affordable natural gas to approximately 1.7 million customers’ homes and businesses through regulated natural gas distribution utilities across four jurisdictions in the United States and two regulated natural gas storage utilities in the United States. Learn more about our team, vision, and strategy.
To learn more about our mission: https://youtu.be/k1mrKDdsYW8?si=y1k3NOyHxgf4emdL
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For Canadian hires: AltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job-related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
For U.S. hires: WGL/SEMCO/AltaGas offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive bonus plans, holiday pay, 401K matching and a wide array of benefits. These benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage are designed to help you and your family stay healthy. We also have paid time off (PTO) to balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role.
U.S. affiliates of AltaGas are committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, matriculation, physical or mental disabilities, political affiliation, genetic information, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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We are a leading North American infrastructure company connecting customers and markets to affordable and reliable sources of energy. Every day, we leverage the strength of our people and our assets to connect our customers with premier energy solutions – from the well sites of upstream producers, to the doorsteps of homes and businesses, to markets around the world. With a strong portfolio of assets in some of the fastest growing energy markets, including a prominent position in the Montney basin and Utilities in key U.S. jurisdictions, we are developing an integrated footprint capable of delivering sustained value to shareholders and customers for many years to come.
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