Director of the building department (hybrid remote position)

About GCM Consultants:
With over 350 professionals located across Canada, GCM Consultants is a recognized leader in heavy industry engineering. For more than 30 years, GCM has been pushing boundaries by delivering innovative projects and building lasting partnerships based on trust, expertise, and quality.


Job description:
Are you a building engineer, with solid technical skills, and have been curious about management for a while? Then this role is made for you. No need to be experienced in managing a department: we are looking for someone who can bring people together, who enjoys bringing their teams towards greatness and building something sustainable.
Under the engineering vice-president, you will take the lead of an existing team, that you will gradually develop into an integrated mechanical and electrical department. Job particularity: business development plays a more significant role here than in most other fields — a real playground for those with an entrepreneurial spirit. It is a role that combines technical expertise, people management, business acumen and vision, within an engineering firm with a presence across Canada.



What we offer:

• A springboard to management: You will receive support from senior management to ensure a successful transition into a leadership role.
• Stimulating projects: varied and large-scale assignments across a range of sectors, throughout Canada.
• Competitive conditions: salary, performance bonuses, employee benefits and access to professional development.

Main tasks:

• Manage the team’s day-to-day; rally, supervise, and encourage growth of the engineers and technicians in your team.
• Ensure technical quality;act as a technical lead for HVAC, plumbing and fire protection systems (non-residential buildings) on projects
• Foster good relations with current and future clients; maintain solid relationships with current clients and be an active participant in the business development of the department.
• Expand our services in electrical engineering, I&C and automation; gradually integrate these disciplines to create a truly multidisciplinary department
• Recruit the right candidates;attract talent in mechanical, electrical, I&C and automation as the department grows
• Work in an integrated manner; collaborate with the firm’s other disciplines – structural, civil, building envelope, electrical, I&C and building automation.

Profile that we are looking for:

• You hold a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and your engineering qualification (P.Eng.) is valid.
• You have cumulated at least 7 years of experience in building engineering, with very proficient knowledge of HVAC systems and plumbing.
• You understand the workings of fire protection systems for buildings.
• Knowledge of BIM (Revit MEP) is an asset.
• On an interpersonal level, you are known for your ability to bring people together around a shared goal, and you have that entrepreneurial spirit that drives you to expand offerings and attract new clients.
• You might already have coordinated teams on complex project, mentored junior colleagues or taken on a role as a senior project manager — that is exactly the kind of background we are looking for.
• You are bilingual (French and English), able to collaborate with colleagues and clients from outside of Quebec in both writing and speaking.
• You are comfortable with clients and contributing to the growth of nationwide firm motivates you.

Type: Permanent full time
Available offices: Montréal or Varennes.