Senior Project Manager

Summary:

The Senior Project Manager serves as an integral member of TESC operations by successfully leading key projects and project teams, providing mentorship and trade-specific expertise across the organization, and contributing to TESC’s growth and sustainability through positive relationships with clients and industry partners.

As a leader at TESC, the Senior Project Manager promotes a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement by demonstrating TESC’s A Player Attributes of job knowledge, service orientation, teamwork, quality of work, and communication.

Responsibilities:

• Leads multi-trade teams and projects.
• Responsible and accountable for ensuring that all tasks are performed within established TESC policies and procedures.
• As a trade expert, contributes to pre-construction activities by reviewing contracts, determining scope, planning, and estimating prior to execution for various projects.
• Participates in estimating turnover meetings, and coordinates/leads kick-off meetings with project team (project coordinators, health and safety, quality, procurement).
• Reviews Foreman’s labour plan against the estimate budget, and creates final budget for labour, material and equipment.
• Responsible for ensuring projects have adequate resources by working with internal departments and trade unions.
• Works with Planner/Scheduler to develop project WBSs, create and maintain schedules and provide stakeholders with progress updates as required.
• Accountable for overall project success inclusive of health and safety, quality, costs and schedule.
• Prepares monthly financial forecasting and WIP reports and drives cost review meetings.
• Attends client and construction meetings as required and disseminates information to project team, subcontractors and suppliers.
• Identifies, monitors and reports potential or imminent issues and risks associated with project targets, milestones and performance, and provides solutions to reduce or eliminate.
• Identifies scope changes and drives change management process immediately, informing clients and senior management of all impacts.
• Promotes a culture of continuous improvement with safety performance and quality by going beyond satisfying the minimum legislated requirements, identifying opportunities for improvement, and providing recommendations to management team.
• Drives compliance by ensuring that incident management investigation program policies and procedures are met on all projects and that quality control is monitored and maintained across all project activities.
• Ensures project is fully closed out by turning over all requirements to client, receiving final payment and submitting Lessons Learned as required.
• Provides leadership, mentorship, and coaching to workers, Project Coordinators and Project Managers, as well as trade-specific expertise to colleagues across the organization.
• Evaluates team performance and provides feedback, participating in development plans and delivering TESC’s Performance Management Program as required.

Job Specifications:

• 20 years’ experience working in the construction industry, preferably within the industrial sector.
• 15 years’ experience in a project management or leadership role within the construction industry.
• Post-secondary diploma or degree in construction management, project management, engineering, or equivalent combination of education and field experience.
• Financial acumen/ability to comprehend construction costs and budget structures.
• A track record of building and managing successful teams, effectively motivating people and maintaining effective relationships with clients and subtrades.
• Superior management skills: ability to influence, engage and delegate effectively and appropriately.
• Versed in all aspects of the construction management process, pre-construction, construction, and project closeout, with ability to execute highly complex or specialized projects.
• Ability to prioritize between competing issues, project needs, business needs, organizational issues, client relations and make judgments at a level consistent as a member of executive management.
• Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills including negotiation, conflict, and crisis management.
• Strong computer literacy in Microsoft Office (Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) and demonstrated knowledge of scheduling practices and software such as MS Project or Primavera P6.
• Valid driver’s license with ability to travel as required (with a clean abstract).
• Willing to work long and irregular hours during shutdowns and construction projects.