Project Manager- Marine

QM Environmental is one of Canada’s largest full-service national decommissioning and environmental remediation firms. Always committed to health, safety and the environment; QM has been experiencing a consistent growth in the last years and we would like to invite you to be part of this team.

We offer exciting career growth, professional development, and a culture that is supported by teamwork and open communication. At QM, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with some of the most talented professionals and innovative thought-leaders in the industry.

We are looking for a Project Manager - Marine to join our team in Nova Scotia.

QM’s portfolio of projects includes dredging projects, dredge management (handling, dewatering, and disposal), foreshore and wet excavation projects, shoreline construction, dockwall demolitions, and subaqueous capping projects.

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Project Managers are responsible for executing projects that meet or exceed company financial targets, on time and within budget. Project Managers are also responsible for:

- Managing client relationships, ensuring projects meet or exceed key performance indicators, and business development in both identifying potential works and estimating and working through the bid process.
- Overseeing on-site project resources, both human and capital, and
- Ensuring that projects meet or exceed QM’s Health and Safety Policies and Programs.

**What we offer**:

- **Competitive salary and group benefits plan**
- **Discretionary Bonus Plan**
- **GRRSP and matching DPSP**
- **Safety-first culture with industry accolades and awards for being a leader in the field.**
- **Promote from within focused hiring strategy for our supervisory and management positions.**
- **Extended Health & Dental Coverage**
- **Life Insurance**
- **Long Term Disability**
- **Employee Assistance Program**
- **Discounted Health Club Membership**
- **And a Great Team**

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Project Execution**
- Ensures projects are executed in accordance with client contract (including sub-contracts or contract changes), key performance indicators, QM financial targets, within budget and on-time.
- Opening jobs (Project Billing Sheet) and obtaining contracts and purchase orders
- Billing procedures, requirements, etcetera
- Ensures that field data, including approving time/hours for employees, is collected and maintained using the most recent version of the field pack.
- Preconstruction submittals / permits
- Site documentation (Health and Safety Documentation / Field Packages)
- Project file management
- Ensure safety requirements are met.
- Job kickoff with total project team - passing bid knowledge on
- Delegating work / engaging subcontractors
- Providing information for creation of accurate purchase orders and managing purchase order process
- Monitoring / guiding execution (budget, schedule, quality)
- Ensuring project budget is up to date in NAV (working with Project Administrator)
- Change order management
- Project official communications / documentation
- Chairing project meetings
- Ensuring / optimizing job profitability and financial performance
- Invoicing (with Project Administrator support)

**Project Close-Out**
- Collection of money
- Post construction submittals
- Project profile summary content provided to marketing.
- Lessons learned / postmortem (both financial and technical)

**Client Relationships and Business Development**
- Working with stakeholders to identify suitable business opportunities and prospects.
- Cultivating and managing business relationships, both new and existing
- Leading the bid review process, including:

- Responding to Request for Proposals, Request for Quotes, etcetera
- Obtaining quotes and preparing cost estimates
- Reviewing contracts
- Evaluating bids, assessing risks, and presenting recommendations to leadership team
- Winning business

**Health and Safety**
- Ensures that all projects are executed in accordance with, and exceeding, all health and safety rules and regulations that apply, including QM’s Health and Safety Policies and Programs

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Experience**
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in business development and interacting with clients.
- In project management and at least 5 years with the direct responsibility for all resource allocation and management responsibilities and with the administration of prime contracts, subcontracts, and contract changes.
- In preparing construction estimates
- In reviewing environmental site assessment reports for the purpose of understanding the contamination conditions of a property and how this relates to the implementation of a remediation solution.
- In evaluating remedial options with respect to various technical, schedule, budget, regulatory, and financial constraints and for the purposes of guiding a design-build remediation process, or for proposing alternatives in a design-bid-build procurement

**Education** / **Certifications**
- Graduat