Project Manager

Your Opportunity

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our Project Delivery Energy team in our Calgary office. As a Project Manager you will lead a team of professionals in the design and construction of small to large scale industrial and commercial energy projects.  You will be the key client interface point and will be responsible to ensure that work is completed on budget, schedule, and in accordance with safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory compliance.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Overall leadership of the project team
• Understand and ensure that client expectations related to project scope are met and exceeded
• Review and contribute to project contract/rate negotiations 
• Establish and maintain positive internal and external stakeholder relationships
• Independently develop project proposals, resource plans, project execution plans, and quality plans
• Manage development of engineering services hours estimates, total project installed cost estimates and project schedules
• Accountable for managing, monitoring, and control of project performance against approved budget, schedule, quality, and safety requirements
• Proactively employ project change, risk management, and stakeholder management 
• Prepare and present project progress and cost reports to internal and external stakeholders
• Lead your project team to strive towards value engineering solutions that lead to client cost and schedule savings
• Review, submit, and track all project related invoices and payments
• In-person collaboration with your team and our clients is expected
• This position is expected to require site travel approximately one to three days per quarter
   

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Excellent organizational and communication (written and oral) skills are critical for this role
• Genuine team player who will encourage teamwork with the project team and with other discipline staff
• Strong ability to mentor junior project managers, project engineers, and project team staff
• Demonstrable experience in project controls and scheduling is considered essential for this role 
• Ability to apply strong technical and problem-solving skills to pro-actively make decisions on project and design related issues
• High degree of familiarity in contract/rate negotiations and reviews 
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities 
• Ability to challenge specifications and non-optimal designs and provide value added alternatives 
• Knowledge of project management principles and processes 
• Working knowledge of applicable industry, national, and provincial codes, and standards

Experience & Background

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or technical diploma or certificate with a minimum of eight years of relevant experience 
• Licensed Professional Engineer or Professional Licensee with APEGA is required
• Preference for experience leading and executing SAGD/In-Situ, LNG and energy transition and growth related projects; including bio-industrial, carbon capture, utilization and storage is considered a major asset for this opportunity. Traditional conventional oil and gas and compression projects are still considered an asset for this position 
• Experience in coordinating/leading project proposal responses
• Project Management Certification (PMP) certification is considered an asset

Typical office environment working with computers; Stantec offers a flexible work environment (a hybrid model of working in the office and at home).

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.  

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s’ talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best. The experience will forever shape your future. #FeelingEnergized  

We would like to thank all candidates that apply; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

At Stantec, we know the work we do matters. From decarbonizing mines to modernizing electric grids and building the infrastructure that fuels communities, we’re powering the world. Our clients come to us with their biggest, most complex challenges because that’s where we thrive. And we’re looking for problem solvers, high achievers, and visionaries to help us.

Join us for a chance to grow professionally at one of the world’s top design firms while building our clean energy future.