Project Manager

**Location**: Burnaby, BC
**Reports to**: Team Lead, URD
**Job Posting#**: 143
**Application Deadline**: October 24, 2025

We are seeking a skilled and motivated **Project Manager** in our **Burnaby, BC** office.

**Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for the overall execution of underground/overhead electric utility distribution projects from the design through construction stages, including management of scope, schedule, cost, quality, and other project management domains.
- Maintain key client relationships with Primary’s focus on customer service, proactive communication, risk mitigation, and finding solutions to unique problems.
- Business development, sales, and acquisition of new clients and projects.
- Complete material take-offs, cost estimates, and proposals including engineering, material procurement, and electrical subcontracts.
- Collaborate with the project team (Project Managers, Designers, Drafters, Engineers of Record, and Field Inspectors) to ensure projects are executed successfully.
- Design coordination with external clients, engineering consultants, utility approval teams, municipalities, material and construction suppliers, and other stakeholders.
- Peer mentoring and training with other team members.
- Periodic off-site meetings, site visits, and field inspections

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Minimum 2 years of experience in project management or design of utility distribution projects.
- Engineering / Applied Science degree or diploma from a recognized university or college (electrical or civil preferred).
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to develop business relationships conducted in a professional manner.
- Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple competing responsibilities concurrently.
- Strong attention to detail, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated self-motivation and drive for improvement.
- Class 5 driver’s license.

**Additional Assets**:

- P.Eng., P.L.Eng., and/or PMP designations.
- Experience working in the shallow utility and/or land development industries.
- Familiarity with BC Hydro and/or Fortis Electric design and construction standards and tools.
- Exposure to electrical distribution, telecommunications, buildings electrical, street lighting, traffic signals, natural gas, civil, landscape, architectural, electrical transmission, or substation design.
- Exposure to Microsoft Office, Bluebeam, AutoCAD, Pull Planner, SPIDAcalc, PLS-CADD, or AGi32 software.

Salary Range: $40.00 - $55.00 per hour

**ABOUT US***:
Primary Engineering and Construction Corporation (Primary) is a growth-oriented industry leader providing professional electrical engineering and construction services and specializing in emerging marketplaces in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

We offer design and design/build services for all types of electric utility distribution infrastructure to a wide variety of clients including electric utility companies, developers, builders, commercial and industrial businesses, oil companies, government, and private contractors. Our devotion to excellence has attracted some of the best young professional minds to our company.

Primary is the proud recipient of **EHRC's Workplace Culture Innovator Award**, recognizing our commitment to fostering a health, inclusive, and positive work environment.

Primary is recognized
by **The Career Directory**
for excellence in graduate recruitment.

**GOOD PEOPLE committed to progress***:
Primary is committed to growing the careers of our people. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to determine their career path and fulfill their ambitions. Our people are genuine, honest, accountable and full of entrepreneurial spirit.

We work hard, see the big picture, are always ready and willing to adapt, and always strive to be better than we were yesterday. We take pride and ownership in everything we do, and most of all, we do it as a team.

**HEALTH & SAFETY***:
The safety and well-being of our people, our clients, and our communities is our top priority in any work we do and is never comprised. Safety is one of the core values that every member of our team understands and lives by, and we ensure this through communication, education and participation. Our safety goal has always been zero incidents, and we work together through every project to achieve that goal.

Safety is ingrained in every project and each task our employees and contractors complete, whether in the office or onsite. Primary has developed effective workplace health and safety management programs designed to reduce and eliminate the number of work-related injuries, leading to a safety track record well above industry average. We are also diligent in selecting the companies we work with, choosing only those with a safety standard as high as our own.