Senior Project Manager, Conveyance
Stantec · Toronto, ON, Canada ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Project management
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Company size
- 1000+
Leads municipal storm, sanitary, and watermain conveyance projects in the GTA and Southwestern Ontario, managing budgets, schedules, and teams while coordinating with clients and agencies.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is seeking a Senior Project Manager, Conveyance to join our Water team. The role can be based out of one of the following offices: Toronto, Hamilton/Stoney Creek, Waterloo or London in a hybrid work arrangement.
This role offers an opportunity for leading and developing designs on technically challenging storm, sanitary and watermain conveyance projects for clients within the GTA and Southwestern Ontario. You will be working as a Project Manager on projects alongside a Technical Lead and supporting team. You will help lead municipal conveyance designs on a broad variety of projects from small diameter sewers and watermains, to large box-culverts with complex utilities and locations. This role will provide an opportunity to offer guidance and mentorship to supporting designers and developing professionals.
You will be performing a variety of tasks which may include liaising with clients, budgeting, scheduling, and coordination activities to progress the project. You will provide project leadership for the project team.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Oversees and manages projects. Responsible for small and large projects of high complexity.
- Serve as the Project's point of contact with clients, agencies and others to obtain and determine project requirements and approvals.
- Supervises the work of other engineers and designers, including setting the priorities for their scope of work, budgets and schedules for completing the work in conjunction with other tasks.
- Take responsibility in managing project deliverables and schedule.
- Provides leadership for civil infrastructure projects, including the management of existing client relationships and bringing in new clients.
- Develop project scope, budgets, and design approach for projects, and support marketing and business development professionals in positioning for potential projects, writing technical portions of proposals, participating in client interviews and supporting negotiations for project contracts.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Demonstrated efficient project management/technical leadership of assigned tasks on multiple concurrent projects.
- Understand client expectations, budgeting, proposal writing, and producing high quality deliverables.
- Requisite knowledge, interpretation, and application of design and construction codes.
- Strong understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications.
- Strong knowledge of civil systems, means and methods, materials, and industry standards.
- Ability to lead one or more teams through all phases of the project.
- Advanced understanding of civil engineering concepts and ability to communicate ideas to others.
- Strong presentation and communication skills.
- Ability to work in a flexible office environment, including working within the office setting, or working remote from home.
- Ability to participate and collaborate in a project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought.
- Demonstrated creativity, foresight and engineering judgment in anticipating and solving problems.
- Strong understanding of engineering concepts and ability to communicate ideas to others.
- Understanding of Microsoft Office Suite is required; proficiency in engineering applications such as AutoCAD and MicroStation software packages are considered an asset.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Environmental, Civil Engineering or related field from an accredited university.
- Professional Engineer or Certified Engineering Technologist registered in Ontario.
- Minimum of 15 years of project management experience in municipal conveyance design.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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