Team Lead, Estimating
Top Benefits
About the role
Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.
Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets.
As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system.
With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long-term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled-worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.
Our Core Values Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities.
Reporting to the Manager, Project Controls, the Team Lead, develops, implements, and monitors estimating standards, frameworks, processes, procedures, to ensure the delivery of accurate and reliable project cost estimates that enhance cost predictability.
This role is classified as “Office First” under the company’s Where We Work policy, and the successful incumbent will work full-time out of the company’s Calgary office.
Key Responsibilities
- Establishes best practices, methodologies, and governance-aligned processes to ensure consistency and accuracy in estimating.
- Prepares detailed cost estimates for project proposals, budget development, and financial forecasting.
- Conducts thorough estimate evaluations, hosts validation sessions, and ensures estimates meet quality and reliability standards.
- Works closely with project managers and teams to review project scope, validate estimates, and ensure alignment with objectives.
- Establishes and maintains the estimating database, ensures data integrity, and assists in defining key performance indicators (KPIs) to track accuracy and efficiency.
- Evaluates and refines estimating processes by integrating data analysis, stakeholder feedback, and advancements in best practices and technology.
- Provides guidance, training, and resources on estimating tools, techniques, and standards to enhance team proficiency.
- Implements a benchmarking framework to enhance estimating accuracy and consistency.
Qualifications And Professional Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 10+ years or more of related work experience.
- Strong knowledge of project control processes, including estimating, cost management, planning and scheduling, and change management.
- Proficiency in estimating software and tools.
- Strong familiarity with Stage Gate Project Delivery Model best practices.
- Strong knowledge of AACE estimate classifications and estimating techniques.
- Collaborative leader with a passion for mentoring, coaching, leading, fostering teamwork and guiding others; capable in navigating and facilitating difficult conversations.
- Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to foster teamwork within the department and across.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and sound decision-making skills.
- Exceptional analytical and prioritization skills.
- Thrives under pressure, adept at managing strict deadlines and shifting priorities.
- Critical focus on accuracy and detail and work efficiently in a time-conscious and time-effective manner in a high-paced, agile, dynamic and multi-task environment.
Other Requirements And Information
- May need to provide support outside of regular business hours and/or on the weekend.
- 5-10% travel to various site locations may be required.
We Build Careers and Pipelines That Last Our story is about determination, resourcefulness and resilience. It’s about charting our own course, finding innovative solutions to challenging problems and doing the right thing. It was true when Trans Mountain became a company in 1951 and it’s just as true today. We welcome new members to our team that embrace the qualities in our story, that thrive on the new path and directions we take. Our culture is one of care and taking our responsibilities seriously. If you would like to contribute to our culture, then join our journey.
A Rewarding Opportunity We offer:
- Valuable experience providing opportunity for professional development and career advancement;
- An opportunity to engage with and learn from some of the most talented and experienced people in the business;
- Competitive compensation;
- Comprehensive benefits programs including flexible benefits, pension and savings plans;
- A place to share a sense of purpose and build relationships;
- Meaningful work that makes a difference;
- An opportunity within the Canadian energy industry.
We value:
- The health, safety and wellness of everyone working in our company;
- Meaningful participation from Indigenous and local communities;
- The commitment and resilience of our people;
- Collaboration and achieving success together.
In keeping with Trans Mountain’s commitment to maximize benefits for communities, priority will be given to qualified candidates from Indigenous, local and regional communities along the Trans Mountain pipeline corridor.
In Alberta, the pipeline system spans the traditional territories of Treaty 6, 7 and 8, and the Métis Nation of Alberta (Zone 4).
In British Columbia, the system crosses the traditional territories of numerous First Nations that are affiliated with the Secwepemc, Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka'pamux, Syilx/Okanagan, Interior and Coast Salish, Stó:lo, as well as the Métis.
Trans Mountain also operates through 15 First Nation Reserves located within the region spanning the BC interior through Fraser Valley.
Our Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Trans Mountain is committed to fostering inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. The diverse viewpoints and cultural knowledge that our employees bring to work enrich our organization’s collective cultural understanding, which is reflected in the work we do every day. We strive to create an environment that is free of barriers to promote full participation in the workplace. Trans Mountain welcomes new team members from traditionally underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, members of racialized groups, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
Team Lead, Estimating
Top Benefits
About the role
Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.
Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets.
As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system.
With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long-term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled-worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.
Our Core Values Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities.
Reporting to the Manager, Project Controls, the Team Lead, develops, implements, and monitors estimating standards, frameworks, processes, procedures, to ensure the delivery of accurate and reliable project cost estimates that enhance cost predictability.
This role is classified as “Office First” under the company’s Where We Work policy, and the successful incumbent will work full-time out of the company’s Calgary office.
Key Responsibilities
- Establishes best practices, methodologies, and governance-aligned processes to ensure consistency and accuracy in estimating.
- Prepares detailed cost estimates for project proposals, budget development, and financial forecasting.
- Conducts thorough estimate evaluations, hosts validation sessions, and ensures estimates meet quality and reliability standards.
- Works closely with project managers and teams to review project scope, validate estimates, and ensure alignment with objectives.
- Establishes and maintains the estimating database, ensures data integrity, and assists in defining key performance indicators (KPIs) to track accuracy and efficiency.
- Evaluates and refines estimating processes by integrating data analysis, stakeholder feedback, and advancements in best practices and technology.
- Provides guidance, training, and resources on estimating tools, techniques, and standards to enhance team proficiency.
- Implements a benchmarking framework to enhance estimating accuracy and consistency.
Qualifications And Professional Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 10+ years or more of related work experience.
- Strong knowledge of project control processes, including estimating, cost management, planning and scheduling, and change management.
- Proficiency in estimating software and tools.
- Strong familiarity with Stage Gate Project Delivery Model best practices.
- Strong knowledge of AACE estimate classifications and estimating techniques.
- Collaborative leader with a passion for mentoring, coaching, leading, fostering teamwork and guiding others; capable in navigating and facilitating difficult conversations.
- Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to foster teamwork within the department and across.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and sound decision-making skills.
- Exceptional analytical and prioritization skills.
- Thrives under pressure, adept at managing strict deadlines and shifting priorities.
- Critical focus on accuracy and detail and work efficiently in a time-conscious and time-effective manner in a high-paced, agile, dynamic and multi-task environment.
Other Requirements And Information
- May need to provide support outside of regular business hours and/or on the weekend.
- 5-10% travel to various site locations may be required.
We Build Careers and Pipelines That Last Our story is about determination, resourcefulness and resilience. It’s about charting our own course, finding innovative solutions to challenging problems and doing the right thing. It was true when Trans Mountain became a company in 1951 and it’s just as true today. We welcome new members to our team that embrace the qualities in our story, that thrive on the new path and directions we take. Our culture is one of care and taking our responsibilities seriously. If you would like to contribute to our culture, then join our journey.
A Rewarding Opportunity We offer:
- Valuable experience providing opportunity for professional development and career advancement;
- An opportunity to engage with and learn from some of the most talented and experienced people in the business;
- Competitive compensation;
- Comprehensive benefits programs including flexible benefits, pension and savings plans;
- A place to share a sense of purpose and build relationships;
- Meaningful work that makes a difference;
- An opportunity within the Canadian energy industry.
We value:
- The health, safety and wellness of everyone working in our company;
- Meaningful participation from Indigenous and local communities;
- The commitment and resilience of our people;
- Collaboration and achieving success together.
In keeping with Trans Mountain’s commitment to maximize benefits for communities, priority will be given to qualified candidates from Indigenous, local and regional communities along the Trans Mountain pipeline corridor.
In Alberta, the pipeline system spans the traditional territories of Treaty 6, 7 and 8, and the Métis Nation of Alberta (Zone 4).
In British Columbia, the system crosses the traditional territories of numerous First Nations that are affiliated with the Secwepemc, Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka'pamux, Syilx/Okanagan, Interior and Coast Salish, Stó:lo, as well as the Métis.
Trans Mountain also operates through 15 First Nation Reserves located within the region spanning the BC interior through Fraser Valley.
Our Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Trans Mountain is committed to fostering inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. The diverse viewpoints and cultural knowledge that our employees bring to work enrich our organization’s collective cultural understanding, which is reflected in the work we do every day. We strive to create an environment that is free of barriers to promote full participation in the workplace. Trans Mountain welcomes new team members from traditionally underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, members of racialized groups, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.