Industrial Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with construction/project manager/superintendent and project team.
• Ensures information is presented appropriately at all meetings. Able to determine issues that are impacting project performance and communicate issues to all stakeholders.
• Supervises directs coaches trains and mentors the project team on the same site or multiple sites.
• Communicates with the project teams to define scope of work need for change to budgets and schedules and identification of variances from the original plan.
• Responsible for refining and executing the overall project strategy.
• Implements and maintains project risk management and coordinates risk mitigation strategies.
• Monitors project performance schedule costs equipment workforce materials HSE and quality control.
• Sets up project reporting procedures (i.e. labor material cost reports site office procedures and document control).
• Understands the labor relations process and how PCL recruits and hires.
• Understands jurisdictional markups.
• Provides input to performance status reports regarding safety cost forecast and schedule.
• Manages all change orders including negotiating processing and assessing cost and schedule impact.
• Performs detailed cost review of construction equipment.
• Assists in securing new work by participating in estimates working with subcontractors and/or participating in proposals and presentations.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering (or other) discipline; or a construction trades background with relevant experience.
• In-depth knowledge of the construction industry and company operations specifically construction specifications building materials methods and procedures.
• Strong understanding of contract language. Proactively identifies risk on construction projects and mitigates through action plans.
• Ability to lead effective site meetings with the client consultants trades and internal employees; ability to present at client meetings or for project pursuit work.
• Strong verbal written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to adapt communication style across multiple departments and audiences including clients supervision and craft workers and relate to all levels of personnel.
• Proven knowledge of different construction methods sequencing potential problems and timelines through the industrial project life cycle across most disciplines.
• Intermediate knowledge of project management and estimating software programs and engineering and construction management principles and practices.
• Intermediate understanding of or the ability to learn in- house software applications quickly (e.g. progressing cost control scheduling quality).
• Ability to be flexible and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to identify and mitigate/manage risk on construction projects.
• Proven ability to solve problems related to construction sequencing and staffing.
• Strong planning organization and time management skills to establish priorities and schedule work tasks and projects to ensure the on-time completion of work priorities.
• Strong ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Proven ability to work directly with engineering and client representatives on technical and commercial items for the project.