Hybrid Senior Project Manager, Building Engineering

at Arcadis

• Job title: Senior Project Manager, Building Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: CA$110,000 - CA$140,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Senior Project Manager leading building engineering projects at Arcadis, ensuring on time and budget-compliant delivery, team management, and stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Direct and manage project delivery including defining project scope, specifying deliverables, estimating and controlling project duration, effort and cost, create detailed project plans and manage change requests.
• Manage building projects from start of design to completion of construction.
• Ensure on time and within budget performance.
• Drive an attitude within project teams to deliver solutions, resolving issues and risks as they arise, while managing a diverse project team.
• Conduct regular site visits to monitor construction progress, attend construction meetings, identify potential issues, and ensure compliance with design specifications and local regulations.
• Oversee and ensure contract administration deliverables are completed in accordance with client requirements.
• Review contractor activities are in accordance with the contract documents and requirements.
• Provide oversight and confirmation of completed contract quantities are accurately calculated for processing progress and final payments.
• Review, interpret, and analyze the Contractor’s initial critical path schedule to determine conformance to the contract, and provide regular review and analysis of monthly critical path schedules.
• Supervise and perform quality assurance acceptance and inspection of construction works.
• Coordinate specialty inspection and testing.
• Liaise with the contractor and client representatives.
• Chair and lead project meetings.
• Provide interpretation and recommendation of contractor submittals.
• Negotiate price agreements, change orders, claims and work directives.
• Travel to projects as required.
• Drive the requirements and analysis phase of the project by reviewing requirements documents, facilitating solution evaluation process, and managing RFP process where required.
• Work with clients, vendors and managers/supervisors, directing and developing project charters, project plans, costs estimates, business cases, steering committee presentations and other documentation supporting the requirements phase of the project.
• Drive day-to-day project activities through the application of sound project management principles and methodologies.
• Develop and maintain a detailed status, activities and issues report on each project to present to Management and major project stakeholders.
• Facilitate regular stakeholder and project sponsor meetings to define project direction and priorities in line with corporate objectives.
• Work with Business and Executive to establish meaningful, key metrics that properly reflect the performance of the team and indicates progress towards objectives.
• Works with the project team to conduct post-completion analysis of all projects and document post-completion recommendations, outstanding issues, and incomplete deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, PMP certification is an asset
• Minimum 12 years of experience providing strategic leadership and oversight in transportation planning, transit, and transit garage, facilities or infrastructure planning and design
• Minimum 5 years on transit projects managing scope, schedule, budget, risk registers, leading and managing multidisciplinary teams on transit infrastructure projects, and comfortable with taking on a hands-on approach by actively participating in project activities
• Extensive experience in full life-cycle project development (conceptual planning, environmental assessment/TRPAP, preliminary design, and business case development), transit terminals, mobility hub planning and design, transit infrastructure, environmental assessments (Class EAs or TRPAP) and expertise in overseeing transit-related business cases and feasibility studies
• Ability to read and interpret contracts and contract documents
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, and be able to independently write reports and correspondence, as well as take part in proposal submissions
• Must be familiar with current software - Bluebeam, AutoCAD, Excel and Word
• A vehicle and valid Ontario Driver’s License to travel to the site around GTA

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Professional development opportunities