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 , trade 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.

TESC is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.

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