GHD Group

Lead Project Manager/Project Director

GHD Group • $100K — $130K *
Ottawa, ON K1G 3J6In-Person
Energy & Utilities
11 - 15 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12-15+ years delivering large infrastructure or federal/public-sector projects
  • Strong understanding of hydropower project's lifecycle
  • Experience supporting complex projects across multiple regions
  • Demonstrated expertise in owner-led delivery models and compliance
  • Degree in Engineering or related field with a professional engineering designation
  • Bilingual (French and English) is an asset

Responsibilities

  • Act as Project Manager or Project Director on major infrastructure projects
  • Lead multiple concurrent bid packages and delivery planning activities
  • Support multidisciplinary project teams and manage interfaces
  • Establish project governance for scope, schedule, cost, and risk
  • Serve as primary interface between GHD and construction partners
  • Build and maintain trusted client relationships throughout project delivery
  • Mentor project managers and junior staff to strengthen team capability

Benefits

  • Commitment to health, safety, quality, and environmental performance
  • Opportunities for mentorship and career development
  • Collaborative and inclusive project culture
  • Engaging work in the hydropower delivery sector
  • Potential for travel within Canada and internationally
Full Job Description
Job Description

Role Purpose

As a Senior Project Manager / Project Director, you will have overall accountability for the successful delivery of projects, from early development through construction support. You will lead project teams, manage client relationships, oversee scope, schedule, budget, and risk, and ensure high-quality outcomes aligned with GHD's safety, quality, and sustainability standards.

This role combines strong project and program leadership with deep understanding of large-infrastructure delivery, including:
  • Leading EOIs, RFQs, and RFPs for major work packages.
  • Managing GHD's interfaces with construction partners and owners.
  • Establishing project controls, governance, and delivery structures suitable for long-term remediation programs.


Your Main Responsibilities Will Include

Project and Program Leadership and Delivery
  • Act as Project Manager or Project Director on major projects, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and to agreed technical and quality standards.
  • Act as GHD's Senior Project Manager / Project Director for bids and awarded packages.
  • Lead multiple concurrent bid packages and delivery planning activities across rolling procurement schedules.
  • Support and oversee multidisciplinary project teams, manage interfaces between project phases and delivery teams to ensure integrated and constructible design solutions.
  • Establish and manage project governance, scope, schedule, cost, risk, and change management frameworks.
  • Support clients through procurement activities, including tender documentation, technical evaluations, and construction support.
  • Provide a single point of accountability for GHD delivery across all assigned remediation projects.


Owner & Construction Partner Interface Management
  • Serve as primary interface between GHD, owners, and construction partners, ensuring alignment on strategy, scope, resourcing, and delivery approach.
  • Support owners through oversight, reporting, and compliance requirements.
  • Manage coordination across multiple stakeholders in complex environments.
  • Maintain clear communication pathways and issue resolution mechanisms across all parties.


Provide integrated leadership across GHD's typical delivery scopes, including:
  • Engineering for utilities and infrastructure (civil works, water management, power supply, control systems).
  • Environmental compliance, monitoring, and reporting.
  • Permitting, stakeholder engagement and consultation.
  • Health and industrial hygiene management.
  • Quality management.
  • Project management, controls, cost, and scheduling for GHD's scope.
  1. Key responsibilities include:
  • Overseeing feasibility, concept, reference design, and detailed design phases.
  • Ensuring designs are constructible, risk-informed, and aligned with expected construction methodologies.
  • Managing uncertainty, risk and associated mitigation strategies.
  • Ensuring alignment with applicable codes, guidelines, best practices and owner standards.


Client Relationship Management & Business Development
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with utilities, developers, and public-sector clients.
  • Act as a senior point of contact for clients throughout project delivery.
  • Identify new opportunities and contribute to GHD's growth.
  • Support preparation of service proposals, tenders, and technical submissions.
  • Collaborate with market leaders, relationship managers, and discipline leaders to develop
    sustainable market presence.


Leadership & Team Development
  • Mentor and support project managers, engineers, and junior staff.
  • Contribute to building and strengthening GHD's hydropower delivery capability.
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance project culture.
  • Uphold GHD's commitment to health, safety, quality, and environmental performance.


What You Bring to the Team

Experience & Technical Background
  • 12-15+ years of experience delivering large infrastructure, or federal/public-sector projects.
  • Strong understanding of how hydropower infrastructure is planned, designed, procured, and constructed.
  • Experience working across multiple offices, regions, and time zones.
  • Demonstrated experience with remote, northern, or logistically complex projects.
  • Strong understanding of owner-led delivery models, compliance obligations, and public accountability.
  • Experience working alongside construction-focused partners where consulting, engineering, and construction roles are clearly differentiated.


Project Leadership Skills
  • Proven experience managing complex, multidisciplinary projects or programs.
  • Proven ability to lead multi-package, multi-stakeholder programs.
  • Strong project controls mindset: planning, scope integration, budget and cost, schedule, risk, and reporting.
  • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, evolving project environments.
  • Strong client-facing, partner-facing, and executive communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and priorities.
  • Experience with a range of delivery models (e.g., Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, EPCM, Alliance, P3) is an asset.


Professional Qualifications
  • Degree in Engineering or related discipline.
  • Professional engineering designation.
  • Bilingual (French and English), spoken and written is an asset.


Personal Attributes
  • Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with clients and multidisciplinary teams.
  • Commercial awareness and client-focused mindset.
  • Commitment to mentoring and developing others.
  • Willingness to travel within Canada and internationally as required.


What We Expect From You
  • Lead the successful delivery of projects from development through execution.
  • Provide sound project and technical oversight during design, procurement, and construction phases.
  • Deliver high-confidence, execution-ready leadership.
  • Deliver clear, concise reports and presentations to clients and stakeholders.
  • Position GHD as a trusted, outcome-focused advisor to owners and partners.
  • Build scalable delivery structures capable of supporting long-term program work.
  • Actively support business development and market growth for GHD.
  • Uphold GHD's standards for safety, quality, environmental performance, and Indigenous engagement.
  • Build strong internal relationships across GHD's five Markets and associated Service Lines.

About GHD Group

GHD Group is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm that provides services to clients in the water, energy, environment, property and buildings, and transportation sectors. The company was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. GHD has more than 10,000 employees in over 200 offices worldwide, and it operates in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America. The company's services include engineering design, project management, asset management, environmental consulting, and digital services. GHD's clients include governments, private companies, and non-profit organizations, and its projects range from small-scale local initiatives to large-scale international infrastructure projects.
Learn more about GHD Group
Size
10,000 employees
Industry
Real Estate & Construction
* Ladders Estimates

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