Description:
- Performs full project life-cycle project management role and responsibilities within a collaborative minded project team on a complex, dynamic and high-risk project, as required to meet corporate commitments, with or without staff delegation
- Serves as technical specialist on studies as well as design and construction matters, protecting the interests of the public and Metrolinx in the delivery of a high-quality product.
- Defines the need for concept, preliminary or detail design alternatives and new or improved procedures, design standards, specifications or contract documents
- Provides administrative, design, editing, technical, estimating, and priority direction to staff and personnel assigned to individual projects, through all project stages
- Reviews requests for acquisitions, requisitions for purchase orders, change orders for contracts (consultant agreements)
- Ensures that capital projects and programs for new, replacement or enhanced infrastructure, maximize customer service, satisfy internal stakeholder requirements, incorporate external agency requirements, and serve public interests
- Works with a multidisciplinary team comprised of employees, Delivery Partner, consultants/Technical Authority, and contractors to deliver high-quality product and service, and oversees the day-to-day delivery of project team members involved in the coordination and administration of project elements
- Coordinates a number of complex tasks under pressure to meet schedule and budget commitments
- Reviews and evaluates consultant studies, reports, design proposals, specifications and contract documents, to meet established policies, procedures and standards
- Assist the Senior Project Manager and Manager in ensuring that the TA (Technical Authority) / Dev.Co/Contractor and the Delivery Partner adhere to the Project Agreements through all stages and phases of the project and in engagement and interface with third party stakeholders such as municipalities and transit agencies
What Skills and Qualifications Do I Need?
- Completion of a degree in Architectural, Engineering or a related discipline or a combination of education, training and experience deemed equivalent.
- Minimum eight (8) years’ experience in project management, preferably within the public sector.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or partial completion is an asset
- Registration as a Professional Engineer or Architect in the Province of Ontario is an asset.
- Project management experience to manage assigned multi-disciplinary projects of high value and complexity and supervise staff engaged in all stages of project management from start to close-out
- Must have a valid Ontario Class “G” driver’s licence as this role will be required to visit construction sites
- Knowledge of passenger transportation industry and projects is an asset
- Prior experience with municipalities and transit agencies is an asset
- Knowledge of municipal, TTC, Metrolinx and other national or international rail and transit standards is an asset
- Prior experience with any aspect of design, construction and commissioning of multi-disciplinary transit projects is strongly desired, including specific experience in underground excavation techniques and methodologies (Sequential Excavation Method, Cut and Cover).
- Organizational, interpersonal and oral/written/presentation communication skills to coordinate complex multi-disciplinary projects under pressure to meet schedule and budget commitments
- Knowledge of Progressive Design Build (PDB) or other collaborative project delivery models is an asset
- Knowledge of Contract Law, Construction Liens Act, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Environmental Assessment Act, and the requirements of the Professional Engineers Act. Knowledge of Human Resources legislation to monitor and manage employees and contractors, including experience in the application of collective agreement provisions.
- Strong problem solving and influencing skills to establish effective working relationships, negotiate, and deal with a variety of contacts, both internal and external to the organization; along with the ability to gain cooperation from individuals not under direct authority
- Interpersonal and oral/written/presentation skills to present complex and/or new ideas with clarity and simplicity and to liaise with all levels within and outside the organization and with specialists across multiple sectors.