Project Manager overseeing budgets, schedules, staff, and contractors for Wood’s global mining and metals engineering projects. Hybrid role based in Saskatoon.
About the role
- Senior Project Manager leading execution of complex substation projects within GE Vernova. Coordinating multiple teams and ensuring compliance with safety, budget, and quality requirements.
Responsibilities
- Review the project scope and compare it to the GE Vernova proposal during the handover of the project file from the Commercial team to Project Management.
- Lead the project kick-off meeting with all internal contributors and assign roles and responsibilities.
- Lead the client kick-off meeting to communicate the scope of work and clarify any outstanding items in the order.
- Manage the overall execution of complex electrical substation projects, ensuring compliance with contractual scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety requirements.
- Consolidate and coordinate activities across multiple sub-projects and workstreams, building an integrated project view and ensuring alignment of priorities, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
- Establish and maintain effective project governance, including project reviews, action tracking, decision logs, escalation management, and reporting to leadership.
- Monitor project performance using key performance indicators and proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks, issues, delays, and cost impacts that could affect successful project delivery.
- Manage client communications and stakeholder coordination to ensure transparency, alignment, and prompt resolution of technical, commercial, and execution-related matters.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of project management experience relevant to the role, ideally in electrical substations, network infrastructure, energy, or other large-scale, complex industrial projects.
- University degree (Bachelor's) in engineering, business, operations, or a related field; an advanced degree or relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, Lean, Six Sigma) are a plus.
- Experience in cross-functional and international project environments.
- Strong command of project management methodologies, tools, and governance frameworks.
- Excellent leadership and coordination skills in complex, multi-activity project environments.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and drive execution with a structured, proactive approach.
- Excellent communication, coordination, and organizational skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, risk anticipation, and decision-making abilities.
- Fluency in English is required.
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