Aecon Group Inc

Manager, Project

Aecon Group Inc$80K — $110K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-year technical or business administration degree or equivalent; alternate degrees with experience considered
  • Minimum of 1 year project management experience, ideally in an industrial setting
  • Knowledge of financial operations, project controls, and estimating
  • Strong analytical and organizational abilities
  • Effective interpersonal skills to collaborate across teams
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication proficiency
  • Proficient in common software applications (e.g., MS Office suite)

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate project work groups to focus on execution goals
  • Develop, maintain, and review project schedule for accuracy
  • Create and implement Action/Recovery Plans for schedule issues
  • Monitor project metrics like Safety, Quality, Cost, and Schedule
  • Identify resource constraints and report them accordingly
  • Work with construction teams to validate and maintain staffing plans
  • Ensure required materials and services are managed and delivery risks addressed
  • Lead functional teams across project organization departments
  • Support project planning meetings and ensure communication among stakeholders
  • Manage task readiness in line with client and station reporting requirements
  • Ensure achievement of outage readiness milestones
  • Prepare readiness check sheets based on operational schedules
  • Capture and prioritize open items related to project readiness
  • Provide status and progress reports to relevant parties

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Supportive management structure for career growth
  • Access to advanced project management tools and resources
  • Employee-focused policies and procedures ensuring safety and quality standards
Full Job Description
What is the Opportunity?

As a Project Manager (PM) you will have the overall responsibility for successful execution of defined segments of work within the defined project, including achieving our operational goals for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of Safety, Quality, Schedule, Cost. The primary responsibilities of the PM include: schedule development and maintenance, scope/change management, budget management, organizational management (establish adequate resources to perform the work) and overall coordination of work groups (construction, safety, engineering, training, procurement, tooling, contracts management, project controls and key client stakeholders.

What You'll Do Here:
  • Responsible for overall coordination of project work groups to ensure collective focus on execution goals, and tracking/completion of all actions and deliverables across all work groups. More specifically, the PM coordinates/ensures:
  • Schedule is developed, maintained/updated, and regularly reviewed for accuracy
  • Creation and implementation of Action/Recovery Plans to address any schedule performance issues
  • Validation and monitoring of project metrics (Safety, Quality, Cost, Schedule) for assigned work segments
  • Any resource constraints impacting planned work are identified and reported
  • Any potential changes to work are identified per the project change management procedure
  • Working with construction team (Superintendent) to ensure responsible for producing/validating and maintaining a staffing plan, Manpower Loading Forecast (MFL) for assigned scope
  • Ensure all required materials and services have been identified and ordered, as well as any material delivery risks identified and action/recovery plans assigned
  • To accomplish the above, the PM will lead a functional team comprised of representatives from all departments across the project organization as applicable, including/not limited to:
    • Construction
    • Engineering
    • Client Representatives
  • Responsible for implementing the project readiness process for construction execution ex; Detailed Window Logic, Readiness Check Sheet Implementation, Report Card Status Reporting.
  • Attends (or arranges representation for) and supports project planning meetings, including integration meetings, internal and customer reporting meetings, etc (as required)
  • Responsible for coordination of prerequisite and execution task readiness in accordance to client and station reporting requirements - includes schedule and risk review meetings with construction management, supervision, engineering, quality, procurement and subcontractors to ensure logistics, execution strategy and schedule compliance are understood and achievable.
  • Ensures outage readiness milestones are achieved.
  • Schedules and coordinate Readiness meetings.
  • Prepares, populates and status' readiness check sheets based on work window schedules.
  • Ensures all open items related to work start readiness and work closeout are captured, assigned and prioritized based on schedule, ensuring stakeholders are held accountable for resolution.
  • Provides status and progress reports to customer, project team, and management as needed.
  • Responsible for adherence to all policies, standards, procedures including but not limited to Safety, Quality, Code of Conduct, Business Ethics
  • Supports Shift Supervisors and Superintendents with construction execution activities as required
  • Performs such other duties and responsibilities as assigned by his/her supervisor/manager
  • Develop and write reports, business correspondence
  • Additional duties as delegated by the Project Director
  • Provide supervisory guidance to project personnel
  • Administration of succession plans and performance reviews
  • Preparation of job description, roles and responsibilities for staff
  • Ensure all employees are fully trained for the function they are expected to fulfill


Dependent on project size and type may supervise:
  • Project Coordinator(s)
  • Project Scheduler/Planner(s)
  • Indirect reports from all project functions (QC, Engineering, Training, etc)


What You Bring to the Team:
  • 4 year technical or business administration degree or equivalent. Alternate degrees/certifications in combination with applicable experience to be considered in lieu
  • Minimum 1 years project management experience 1 years in an Industrial environment
  • Applied knowledge of Industrial project work, financial operations, project controls methods/standards, estimating and employee relations
  • Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Excellent computer skills (typical MS suite programs)

About Aecon Group Inc

Aecon Group Inc. is a Canadian construction company that provides a range of services to clients in the infrastructure, energy, and mining sectors. The company's services include construction, engineering, procurement, and project management. Aecon has completed a number of high-profile projects in Canada, including the construction of the CN Tower and the Vancouver SkyTrain. Founded in 1957, the company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
Learn more about Aecon Group Inc
Size
12,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1877

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