Portfolio Manager

Why Fraser Health?:
Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. Our team of 43,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care.

Are you intrigued with the challenge of planning and delivering facilities and infrastructure capital projects within health care? Do you love managing the full scope of small to intermediate sized construction projects in a creative way in a community that is customer focused? If so, bring your knowledge and abilities in project management, relationship building, and leadership skills to a role where you will strive to make a difference to patients, families and care givers.

**Position Highlights**

As a **Project Manager,** you will work on important projects in the Facilities Management portfolio. We have projects where you will use your unique talents to tackle administrative, client and technical challenges in a collaborative and innovative way with many diverse partners.

Your diverse background in project management will prepare you to use your creative skills in the planning, design and construction of a wide variety of health care infrastructure and facilities projects. We are a team composed of dedicated professionals who thrive in a collaborative culture. We support learning, customer service, stewardship, communication and performance.

**Build on your education and experience as you**:

- Use project management methodologies and tools to manage facilities projects including the preparation of project charters, confirmation of project scope, developing project plans, budgets and schedules.
- Provide leadership as the accountable project owner by liaising with various associates and conveying timely information with respect to the project status, ongoing issues, progress updates, challenges and opportunities.
- Lead and manage drawings and specifications for projects produced by outside architectural and engineering consultants.
- Provide recommendations to the leadership team to mitigate cost overruns, maintain adherence to allocated budgets and timelines, and ensure delivery of a successful project.
- Provide support to leasing team with documentation review pertaining to construction projects and liaise with landlord representatives for necessary approvals, site handover and project delivery.
- Develop and oversee project business plans for identified projects through conducting feasibility studies, solution development, identifying functional requirements, and scope and design concepts. You will assess opportunities by reviewing budgets and implementation schedules to ensure business plans are consistent with user needs and expectations.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with strong organizational, technical and client management skills. You have the ability to develop project budgets, construction estimates and have experience in space planning, consultant and contractor procurement, and construction management.

This is a **Regular Full Time** opportunity located at **Central City** in **Surrey,** **BC**.

Effective October 26th, 2021, all new hires to Fraser Health will need to have full COVID 19 vaccination (have received a full series of a World Health Organization “WHO” approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV-2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines). Please note this applies to all postings, and individual medical exemptions must be approved by the Provincial Health Officer.

**If this sounds like the ideal role for you, here are more reasons why you should apply**:

- A career with Fraser Health will offer you the opportunity to be a part of a dedicated team of experts in a dynamic and rewarding health care environment.
- We offer a competitive compensation and benefit package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.

Detailed Overview:
**Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Provides senior level advice and guidance by consulting to all disciplines and stakeholders within an assigned portfolio by keeping abreast of the initiatives and issues within the business areas assigned and conducts strategic planning in the development of business cases, and process re-engineering initiatives.
- Provides project leadership to a variety of large, complex projects including a number of diverse disciplines and/or affecting multiple stakeholders; develops and manages project timelines; facilitates change management strategies; defines tasks; identifies, sources and manages resources such as contractors, staff or dollars; identifies and mitigates project related risks; provides guidance and direction to team members.
- Ensures project closure by provi