Project Manager

Project Manager

Location : Toronto, Canada (other locations within Canada will be considered) - hybrid remote working

Permanent Position

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our North America team.

The role is to work with our engineering and assurance teams to manage a wide range of projects, including budget management, procurement, client and supplier engagement, risk management and scheduling.

In undertaking this role you will need to work autonomously, interfacing with clients and other key stakeholders.

You will also provide support to the Operations and Business Development Team within the Canadian business to support resource and bid management across the North American portfolio.

For this role you will have experience working in a similar capacity, ideally (but not essentially) within the rail or professional service sectors.

If you are an established project manager with a strong passion for providing excellence and looking for your next move, we’d like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a share of a portfolio of large, complex projects, implementing and promoting core principles such as scope management, resource planning, change control, risk, financial control and documentation management.
• Supporting our clients, providing solutions and helping to drive their projects forward.
• Identifying variation opportunities and communicating these to the Operations and Business Development Team.
• Take responsibility for ensuring the project Estimate at Completion remains accurate throughout the project, with any project risks identified.
• Ensure governance on our Accredited Projects in accordance with SCC guidelines
• Manage resource competencies (including suppliers)
• Support Project Engineers in ensuring that risks are understood, considered and mitigated during both the production of project proposals and during the project lifecycle.
• Ensure any Health and Safety risks relating to the project are identified and managed.
• Build and maintain good client relationships through proactive communication and actions to fulfil client and business expectations.
• Provide a first level response to all emerging customer and supplier issues, engaging with subject-matter experts, where applicable, to ensure a high level of customer service.
• Support project management processes within the business, developing and delivering best practice tools and techniques for effective and consistent ways of working.
• Identify, suggest and assist managers with implementing change and developments to the administration processes and procedures to meet future business demands and improve process efficiency.
• Identify and implement the correct authorisation route for each project and providing the required information in a timely manner.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Experience of working in a business / client services environment.
• Proven experience of managing large value projects through the full project lifecycle including managing budgets against an estimate at completion, reporting current project status, managing resource conflicts and providing outturn forecasts.
• Ability to analyses and revise a project programme and produce project documents in line with this
• Capability to quickly learn and proficiently operate within the project management (Changepoint) and Customer Relationship Management (Microsoft Dynamics) software tools.
• Flexibility and a results-oriented approach to meet varying and competing client and business demands.
• Versatility and adaptability with strong organisational skills to be able to work on multiple tasks and to tight deadlines.
• A proactive approach to problem solving with strong communication and diplomacy skills to negotiate and influence internal and external clients.
• An inquisitive nature, an eye for detail, and an ability to use own initiative.
• Excellent mathematical skills in relation to project budgets, costs and forecasting.
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent Excel skills and proficient in the use of other Microsoft Office packages including Word, Project, and PowerPoint.
• Comfortable with travel around North America to support the management of project delivery.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the Rail industry, including experience of delivering projects in the rail environment.
• Project Management qualifications e.g. PRINCE2 or APM.
11 days ago