Technical Specialist, Project Management

Defence Construction Canada

$80K — $105K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum college diploma in building mechanics, building engineering, architecture, or related field with 4 years of relevant experience, or equivalent work experience.
  • Preferred college degree in mechanical engineering or building mechanics, and PMP certification.
  • Knowledge of best practices, methods, trends, and legislation in real property, environmental, and construction services.
  • Familiarity with Client-Partner project management policies and Treasury Board Secretariat procedures.
  • Ability to apply project and risk management techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Research and create documentation for long-term projects including approvals and project charters.
  • Develop multi-year facility maintenance plans for building systems.
  • Manage building mechanics projects from inception to completion, including new builds and renovations.
  • Define project requirements through user engagement, feasibility studies, and cost estimates.
  • Facilitate decision-making for project approval processes by developing business case analyses and functional programming documentation.
  • Coordinate stakeholder communications to promote timely project decisions.
  • Prepare tender documents and manage procurement planning.

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid annual sick leave and health/dental premiums.
  • $400 wellness allowance for gym or fitness expenses.
  • Access to $2,500 for mental health services beyond regular coverage.
  • Flexible workplace options with a $400 allowance for home support every two years.
  • Enhanced parental leave top-up plan to 93% of earnings for up to 37 weeks.
Full Job Description
Who Can Apply?:

Internal (DCC Employees) and External (General Public)

Salary Range:

$80,886 - $105,152

Employment status:

Continuing

Flexible work option:

Hybrid (3 days/week)

Term Length:

Security Level:

Reliability

Language Requirement:

Bilingual Preferred

Closing Date:

31/07/2026

Country:

Canada

The Technical Specialist, Project Management, provides project management services to support multidisciplinary project execution in the field of building mechanics (ventilation, controls, electrical) (ranging from low to medium levels of complexity) related to infrastructure. The incumbent acts as a technical specialist for the Client-Partners and may undertake research and conducts studies and assessments.

KEY AND PERIODIC ACTIVITIES
The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative but not all-inclusive:
Primary
  • Research, prepare and present documentation required for long-term projects (e.g. approvals, statements of work, projects charters, budgets, policies and procedures)
  • Develop multi-year facility maintenance plans.
  • Manage all aspects of building mechanics projects-from start to finish-including new construction and renovation projects.
  • Define project requirements with users, conduct surveys and feasibility studies, and prepare cost estimates and reports.
  • Support Client-Partner project approval processes by facilitating decision making within Client-Partner organizations through the development of business case analysis, functional space programming and other documentation
  • Coordinate stakeholder communications to ensure timely decision making
  • Participate in procurement planning and prepare tender documents
  • Coordinate consultant activities
  • Act as the representative of the project director or project manager, within DCC delegated signing authority
  • Provide technical advice to designers, users, and others.
  • Develop and maintain effective relationships within DCC, and with industry, the Client-Partners and/or stakeholders
  • Ensure quality standards are met, in line with corporate and Client-Partner expectation

Other
  • Prepare monthly reports (e.g. internal, Client-Partner)
  • Support and/or lead business development activities
  • Manage risk
  • Other duties as assigned

SKILLS
General and Specific Knowledge
  • Best practices, methods, trends and legislation in real property, environmental and construction services
  • Client-Partner project management policies and procedures
  • Treasury Board Secretariat policies and procedures
  • Project and risk management principles

Formal Education and/or Certification(s) and Experience
  • Minimum: college diploma in building mechanics, building engineering, architecture or related field with four years' relevant experience, or the equivalent.
  • Preferred: college degree in mechanical engineering or related to building mechanics, and PMP certification.

Abilities
  • Use applicable computer software and operating systems
  • Apply project and risk management techniques

DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP
  • Provide functional direction and advice to employees and to Client-Partners

WORKING CONDITIONS
  • Typical office environment with occasional travel
  • Some work may be located on construction sites; incumbent may occasionally be required to wear basic safety equipment

Your package includes:

Health and Wellness
  • 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, and health and dental premiums
  • $400 wellness allowance to help cover expenses such as a gym membership
  • $2,500 for mental health services on top of regular $2,500 paramedical coverage
  • Telus Virtual Health Care and $750 Health Care Spending Account for some expenses not covered under provincial plans

Home and Family
  • Life, accidental-death, and short-term disability insurance
  • Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program
  • Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for up to 37 weeks
  • Flexible workplace options, including $400 allowance every two years, to support working from home

Leave and Retirement
  • Public-service pension
  • Comprehensive vacation and other paid-leave plans, along with enhanced travel benefits coverage


To begin a career with Defence Construction Canada (DCC), you must be a Canadian Citizen or a permanent resident of Canada. As a condition of employment with DCC, a minimum reliability security status clearance is required and some roles may require secret security status clearance.

DCC is responsible for the Personnel Security Clearance process. Typically to be eligible for a "Reliability" clearance, you must have five years of verifiable background information and to be eligible for a "Secret" clearance, you must have 10 years of verifiable background information. The process usually involves reference inquiries, verification of qualifications, criminal records checks, and credit checks (as required) and may require fingerprints. For more information about obtaining a security clearance, please review the Standard on Security Screening.

The appropriate security clearance is a condition of employment and it is the candidate's or employee's responsibility to ensure, they are able to obtain and maintain their required security level clearance to begin or continue their employment with DCC. Failure to obtain or maintain, the appropriate level of security clearance means either the candidate or employee will not receive a job offer, the conditional offer will be rendered null and void or their employment will be terminated with cause. A thorough security clearance process will be applied to all candidates or employees considered for an appointment; this process includes inquiries, verifications and assessments regarding matters such as, but not limited to:

  • criminal record checks
  • reference checks
  • previous employment
  • open source checks
  • credit/financial status


DCC's Code of Business Conduct (Code) is a condition of employment. It serves to enhance public confidence in the integrity of DCC Employees and provides clarity to Employees on a number of issues, including real or perceived conflicts of interest. Before applying to this (or any) position at DCC, candidates shall familiarize themselves with the Code, because new employees are required to certify that they have read, understood, and agreed to observe the Code upon commencing work at DCC. Employees are further required to review their obligations under the Code and notify the President's Office of any changes in their circumstances at the earliest possible opportunity, and to complete the Annual Update once a year.

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