Project Manager, Construction

**What you’ll do**:
The Construction Project Manager is responsible for the delivery and coordination of capital projects including new, relocated and renovated stores for the Mark’s and SportChek banners across Canada. This critical real estate role will coordinate all aspects of store design and construction, including design, construction, budget and scheduling of these capital projects. This role operates within the Store Design and Construction Group offering shared services to the Mark’s and SportChek brand stakeholders

You will be responsible for:

- Oversee construction projects and store improvement activities for the Mark’s and SportChek brands across Canada accountable for the delivery of the project from initiation to closing
- Deliver interior improvement projects for retail sites on time, on budget, and meeting stakeholder expectations, in accordance with brand standards, site requirements and lease obligations
- Manage multiple, concurrent projects of varying scopes, in various locations nationally
- Act as the primary contact and liaison for internal project stakeholders, departmental partners, consultants, contractors, and in-store field staff
- Work with various departments on miscellaneous store projects (minor improvements, fixture rollouts, maintenance, or incident response repairs)
- Collaborate with internal corporate real estate partners to perform site assessments, propose scope of work for new as-is sites, assist with project feasibility studies and estimates
- Plan and execute project delivery, securing appropriate resources, and determining appropriate project delivery model, to maximize efficiency in project execution, understanding how individual projects fit into the portfolio workload
- Monitor project, track and mitigate risks, resolve project challenges; develop and implement resolution strategies. Take action to correct any deviations from project plan, and hold projects on schedule and on budget
- Manage requirements gathering in the initial phase of the project by aligning project scope with lease obligations, stakeholder requirements and brand standards. Ensure that project scoping and conceptual work are correct by engaging stakeholder review and obtaining plan signoff. Mitigate scope creep.
- Assist with initial project budgeting, and budget refinement through progressive scope elaboration in conjunction with refinement of lease agreements
- Develop and manage the project schedule ensuring that internal stakeholders, internal project resources and external consultants, contractors, vendors and landlords are fully aware of project schedule, and take steps to hold project to schedule
- Manages all project administration activities, maintaining accurate and up-to-date project documentation
- Prepare and maintain progress reports, distribute to stakeholders, ensuring all parties are aware of progress, milestones, status, and risks
- Responsible for accurate and timely coordination of tender packages, bid analysis, purchase orders, contracts
- Review construction plans for compliance with brand standards, stakeholder requirements, lease requirements, applicable building codes and budgeted scope
- Responsible for engaging internal and external design and consulting/ engineering resources required to provide design drawings, working drawings and specifications for the project.
- Distribute plans for Landlord approval. Liaise with Landlords as required to meet lease and project requirements, and achieve best outcomes for store interiors with best-fit inside mall infrastructure
- Prepare tender package and invite bidders, review and analyze bid submissions, make recommendations on award of contract, issue letter of award and prepare contracts, initiate PO’s
- Supervise the work of contractors and coordinate work with in-store operations groups where required Check work in progress, monitoring quality, resolving issues and reporting progress
- Control project finances through project cost tracking, flagging cost risks, cost forecasting, analyzing variances and minimizing cost impacts. Report project budgets monthly, including cost forecasting
- Responsible to ensure financial data is accurate in project accounting systems and reporting, and responsible for reviewing and approving invoices
- Implement change and cost control measures, tracking CCN’s CO’s and associated schedule impacts, educate stakeholders on the impacts of proposed changes to minimize negative project outcomes
- Perform on-site meetings including but not limited to pre-construction, possession/turnover, progress and close-out inspections/turnover walk-throughs. Work to minimize deficiencies ensuring clean ‘white glove’ handoff to store operations teams
- Prepare and track project close out documentation, including detailed deficiency list and resolution reporting, ensuring defects are corrected.
- Conducts project post-mortems, sharing project learnings with the team at large, driving contin