Intermediate Project Manager

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!

Your Opportunity

Our Industrial Buildings practice is currently made up of teams across North America, including centers of excellence in Waterloo, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, Halifax, Pittsburgh, and Albany, supported by smaller teams of Industrial Buildings staff in other major cities. The group provides services for all phases of a project's life cycle, from planning through detailed design, construction support, commissioning, and facility decommissioning.

As an intermediate project manager within our Industrial Buildings team located in Waterloo, Ontario you will work to assist clients through the planning and construction of industrial and other buildings projects. You will manage teams of engineers, architects, and technologists across multiple projects, overseeing the development of integrated design proposals and their delivery. You will be leading and mentoring others while collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables as required.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing teams and tasks on multiple Buildings projects of varying size and complexity.
• Key front facing team member with the client, from the initial meeting through to successful completion of the project.
• Flexibility with working in a fast paced and dynamic environment prioritizng schedules, deliveribles and client needs.
• Responsible for managing and coordinating teams and tasks on multiple Buildings projects of varying size and complexity.
• Effectively participate and help to win potential projects.
• Plan, organize, and direct the work throughout the life of the project to successfully deliver the project to the client.
• Day-to-day project oversight and communication with the client and project team.

• Keep the overall Buildings leadership team informed of progress on project expectations, deadlines, and deliverables, and understand the limits of the decision-making responsibilities of the role.

• Develop, track, update, forecast and modify the project schedule and budget throughout all phases of the project.

• Lead the client and project team to ensure that the project design meets the client budget, schedule, program, and design intent.

• Assists in the negotiation and development of project agreements.

• Develop and manage project budget, schedule, and overall work plan to realize target financial performance.

• Mentor Assistant Project Managers and motivate project teams.

• Ensure that Project Management Framework tasks are timely completed and properly documented.

• Lead project coordination and client/site meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, client, contractor, and sub-contractors.

• Manage and track change orders, applications for payment by contractors and other contractual modifications impacting budget and schedule.

• Evaluate, advise on, and assist in resolving disputes and claims.

• Direct client invoicing and effectively manage collections.