Senior Project Manager - Commercial Buildings

Advise at a strategic level at the project conception stage, including providing advice on the different approaches that can be adopted in order to successfully achieve the client’s overall objectives.

• Project planning, including producing the detailed project plan.
• Managing various projects at any one time, balancing conflicting priorities.
• Interfacing with the client, stakeholders and teammates at all project stages.
• Financial management – Ensuring prompt client invoicing and utilizing a client’s bespoke financial system in order to monitor a project’s financial status.
• Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team.
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques.
• Managing the change control process.
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• Preparing formal project budget progress and other reports.
• Quality Control – Ensuring compliance with design and quality standards.
• Design Management – managing the prototyping, concept and design development of Retail stores and initiatives
• Working to construct proposals for new work or variations for existing projects.
• Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is inputted into internal databases and shared.
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilized throughout project.
• Assisting in research related to construction market conditions throughout Canada, US, including analysis of official published data.
• Process improvement – Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes referring ides to the appropriate line manager.
• Identifying and ensuring that the appropriate line manager is aware of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Identifying opportunities to improve Project Management procedures, templates and products referring ideas to the appropriate line manager.
• Regular travel to construction sites across Canada.
• This role is in office at least 3x per week, however, there is flexibility based on project/client travel obligations