Project Manager overseeing power delivery projects with multidisciplinary teams for utility clients in Canada. Managing scope, schedule, budget, and quality throughout project lifecycles.
Responsibilities
The Project Manager will be responsible for managing new and existing projects, developing solutions to project challenges in collaboration with the project teams, and leading multi-disciplinary technical staff in a matrix organization to successful completion of projects.
Personally, pursue and serve as a project manager for projects, managing scope, schedule, budget, quality and risk in compliance with Stantec’s PM framework.
Act as Stantec’s primary project representative in front of the client.
Maintain and enhance our reputation with clients, approval agencies and industry professionals as an outstanding service provider.
Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Work with discipline leads to establish project objectives, procedures and performance standards.
Exercise initiative in addressing problem situations and resolve most project delivery related matters.
Lead multi-disciplinary teams through proposals, feasibility work all the way to final designs, and construction support as required by the projects.
Manage contract tasks, track and manage costs and schedule, and implement measures necessary to stay on schedule and within budget utilizing established project management procedures within Stantec.
Lead by example with active support of internal policies and practices, including risk management, project management, and quality management.
Develop and foster client relationships to facilitate project activities.
Provides guidance, training and mentorship for junior and intermediate engineers and designers.
Leads project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub- contractors, and vendors.
Requirements
Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in project management preferably for engineering, design of transmission, distribution and substation upgrade, expansion and conversion projects.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Sciences, preferred.
Professional Engineering (P.Eng) or Engineer-In-Training (EIT) license in a relevant discipline is beneficial.
Project Management Professional (PMP), other Project Management Institute (PMI) designations, or ability to obtain, is desirable.
Strong project management skills, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing projects from pursuit through closeout, involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors.
Demonstrated experience in client service management.
Experienced in project management, including defining and setting the direction for a team, project and change management as required.
Demonstrated successful experience/knowledge in decision making, as well as assessing, evaluating and solving project management challenges.
Demonstrated successful experience in project earned value management, including analysis of cost and schedule variances, development of bottoms-up estimates to complete, and analysis of estimates at completion to ensure successful project management during all project stages.
Familiarity with delivery of high-volume design projects as well as KPI development to measure design and team performance.
Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as strong interpersonal skills to effectively work and collaborate with a wide range of internal and external customers.
Technical skill set in Energy, including transmission, distribution and substation design and operation.
Exposure to RDE / pole replacement programs is an asset.
Familiarity with BC Hydro project delivery practices is an asset.
Experience with Passport and DAD systems is desirable.
Travel to other offices as well as to project sites will be required.
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision plans
Wellness program
Health care spending account
Wellness spending account
Group registered retirement savings plan
Employee stock purchase program
Group tax-free savings account
Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
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