Assistant Project Officer

Description:

In office but with intention – a time for team and trust building, collaboration, and socialization. Please reach out to us to learn more!

General Accountabilities

• Setup, coordinate and track engineering design teams for projects assigned.

• The project teams may consists of internal engineers and drafting staff, and/or engineers of external consultingfirms.

• Lead the assigned teams through different project phases (estimation, execution, in-servicing, closing includinglesson learned). This will include coordination of detailed design packages, material requests, impact ofcommissioning/outage plans on engineering and other engineering services necessary to bring the projects intoservice.

• Coordinate team activities to ensure results are delivered according to the approved scope, schedule, cost,quality and are in compliance with Hydro One standards and policies.

• Work with engineering consultants to define project scope and objectives and to develop business cases forprojects.

• Ensure that scope of work is managed and deliverables are controlled in compliance with the award.

• Provide project progress updates and revision to schedules, costs and cash flows as required.

• Ensure progress, schedule and costs are tracked, reported and re-forecasted, requests for changes are properlyreviewed, approved and documented before acceptance for implementation.

• Evaluate engineering capability of project teams through various means (capability assessment, quality controland capacity).

• Recommend approaches and changes to develop external skills to augment critical areas of HONI's capabilityrequirements.

• Execute contracts engaged with external engineering firms and service providers to ensure contractcommitments delivered are within the established parameters, quality, terms and conditions.

• Provide the contractor with direction, interpretation and clarification of engineering standards and practices of theCorporation as required.

• Liaison between project delivery, estimation, constructor (internal/external) and other stake holders onengineering issues.

• Perform regular review and progress meetings including site visits, as required.

• Evaluate effectiveness of the engineering firm’s work and recommend changes to performance throughestablished evaluation process.

• Recommend and process progress payments consistent with auditable delivery of work packages byengineering firms or engineering service providers.

• Perform other duties as required.