Project Manager

**Key Role**

As a Senior Project Manager with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with mínimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through completion of multiple simultaneous projects ranging from small to large with a wide range of complexities and requirements
- Independently prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval
- Lead and initiate regular communications with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues
- Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public. This involves keeping the stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables, and meet the project schedule
- Address and manage change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments
- Maintain awareness and management of project budget maintenance, key performance indicators and forecasting
- Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals
- Compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals
- As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members and junior Project Managers
- Provide strong administrative and technical leadership for the project and maintain all project records and monitor correspondence
- Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity
- Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned. Have thorough knowledge of the company's contracts and understanding of all parties involved.
- Implement and manage the Quality Control Plan for each project
- Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project
- Manage client and subconsultant invoicing

**Health and Safety**
- Role model standards for SHEQ performance and behaviour consistent with the company’s health, safety, environmental and quality vision and policies by influencing those around you
- Contributing to the identification of SHEQ risks and driving processes to achieve Zero Harm
- Embracing, displaying and promoting the company values and ensuring a safe working environment is maintained at all times

**Qualifications and Experience Required**:
**Minimum Requirements**
- BEng or BSc Engineering Degree in Civil Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in Project and/or Program Management and experience on large, engineering and/or construction projects
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams of project professionals; concurrently managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience making presentations to senior management
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
- Clear, concise, and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff
- Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills
- Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change
- Experience negotiating contract terms
- Proficiency with computer office productivity (i.e., MS Office) and project management software tools
- Detail oriented with ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Familiarity reading drawings and specifications

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Project or Program Management Professional certification (i.e., PMP)
- Professional Registration (PrEng)
- Experience in an engineering consulting environment
- Post-graduate qualification in project and/or construction management will be advantageous
- Experience in project planning, cost management and schedule management, and methods of analyzing and reporting project performance on financial and other KPIs
- Experience working in or for the mining sector and/or on major projects

**Key Competencies and Generic Skills**

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