FCC Canada is looking for a Senior Project Manager for one of our largest transportation projects.
The Senior Project Manager's key responsibilities are: - Leads and coordinates Due Diligence and Investigation activities that support & enable design, construction, and overall project delivery.
- Acts as a key interface between investigation teams, designers, construction teams, and the client.
- Provides senior leadership across a large, multi-disciplinary organization consisting of office-based and field teams, including leaders-of-leaders, with accountability for organizational structure, capability building, and succession planning.
- Is comfortable managing diverse teams, including junior engineers and more senior supervisory or field staff with different roles, backgrounds, and working cultures.
- Brings structure, foresight, and accountability to complex investigation scopes in a live railway environment.
- Demonstrates and promotes a strong Health & Safety culture, ensuring investigation activities are planned and executed safely within active railway environments and in compliance with project requirements.
- Provides leadership in quality management, ensuring investigation deliverables meet project requirements, support constructability, and enable informed decision-making.
- Applies Project Controls principles, including cost management, forecasting, scheduling, progress measurement, reporting, and change management, to support successful project delivery.
- Brings practical construction and civil infrastructure experience, with a strong understanding of field operations, construction sequencing, construction readiness, access constraints, and project execution within active railway environments.
- Owns the identification, assessment, and mitigation of investigation-related risks, ensuring alignment with the broader project risk framework and enabling proactive decision-making at the leadership level
- Demonstrates sound judgment and effective decision-making under pressure, taking ownership of outcomes, driving issue resolution, and maintaining accountability across multidisciplinary teams.
- Communicates clearly and professionally with internal teams, consultants, contractors, and client representatives.
- Understands how investigation outcomes influence construction means and methods, productivity, cost, schedule, safety, quality, and overall project performance.
- Proven ability to manage stakeholders across multiple levels and functions, with strong judgment in tailoring messaging and providing clear, timely updates that align senior leadership, operational teams, and key partners.
- Supports a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance team culture.
- Employee development - regular and ongoing performance feedback, ensuring optimal team structure, management of performance against role expectations, support the career development and aspirations of junior staff members
- Help team manage priorities to ensure that day-to-day operations align with strategic operational and project requirements..
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS- 12-15 years of relevant experience in major infrastructure projects, with hands-on experience in railway projects.
- Degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline
- Proven experience leading and coordinating Due Diligence and Investigation activities such as geotechnical, utilities, structural, and corridor-related investigations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multidisciplinary and multi-generational teams in complex project environments.
- Strong understanding of the interfaces between investigations, design development, and construction execution.
- Experience reviewing investigation scopes, methodologies, reports, and deliverables to ensure technical quality and constructability.
- Ability to develop and manage investigation schedules in coordination with project planning teams.
- Experience preparing, reviewing, and controlling investigation budgets, estimates, variations, and change management processes.
- Experience working under pressure, managing multiple priorities, and meeting project deadlines.
- Experience supporting or delivering civil infrastructure works.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong people management experience in a matrix environment.
- Proficiency in MS Office; experience with planning tools such as Primavera P6 or MS Project is considered an asset.
Salary Range: >200,000 yearlyWORK ENVIRONMENTThis position is located in Toronto, ON.
