Project Manager

Job Description** Why join us?**

SNC-Lavalin provides cutting-edge engineering, procurement, construction and financing solutions to projects in more than 100 countries around the world. From the Canadian Arctic to the Southern African region and Australasia, our multicultural workforce is driven by a fierce pride in their work and a pioneering vision.

SNC-Lavalin is truly a global leader in its field and has been chosen to design and build some of the most prestigious projects in the world.

SNC-Lavalin is one of Canada's largest private sector nuclear engineering groups. We have been providing a wide range of services to the nuclear industry in Canada and around the world since for more than 60 years. We are proud to be the steward of Canadian CANDU nuclear technology. Our expertise includes: Nuclear Steam Plant (NSP) engineering, Balance of Plant (BOP) engineering, Plant Life Management and Extension, Retube Tooling Systems, Inspection and Maintenance Services, Steam Generator Replacement, Plant Equipment Refurbishment and Retrofits.

In this role, you as the **Project Manager** will be accountable for the successful completion of an assigned portfolio of projects varying in size and complexity. Reporting to the Program Director, you will be accountable for the overall project execution, ensuring that the projects are delivered within contract requirements, meeting SNC and Client standards of quality and safety as well as performance expectations. You will need to understand and manage complex practical, technical and commercial issues and have proven capability of working constructively with a broad range of stakeholders, leading project teams that are either local to you or across multiple locations. You will have excellent communication, listening, stakeholder management and influencing skills and capable of managing client relationships up to senior level, and engage constructively with multiple stakeholders. You will enjoy turning your hand to new challenges and will be keen to learn, whilst also wanting to support others within our diverse multi-disciplinary teams. You must also be able to successfully manage the commercial and quality performance of projects and proactively deploy a range of project management techniques to control delivery, cost, and schedule, as well as manage quality, risk and change.

How will you contribute to the team?
- Accountable for all aspects of the project and to lead all team members who are performing duties to ensure that the work progresses meeting all safety, quality, schedule, cost, and contractual requirements.
- Working with all internal stakeholders, partners, taking responsibility for planning, coordinating and managing the delivery of projects within your portfolio.
- Ensure that all project activities are performed in accordance with corporate standards of ethical compliance, cyber-security, import-export regulations, intellectual property protections and security clearance protocols.
- Develop and implement project execution strategies, working with the client to ensure all project commercial and technical scope is effectively addressed within the project execution plan, whilst ensuring compliance with the prime contract.
- Ensure that all formal approvals for project bids, changes and settlements are prepared and approved in accordance with corporate Level of Authority (LoA) procedures.
- Approval of hours of work (e.g. timesheet approvals, overtime approvals, vacation authorization) for assigned scope/projects in accordance with company policies, project policies and any applicable collective agreements.
- Approval of Purchase Orders and Project Change Orders within the company or project tiered limits of authority - frequently one of several required approvals.
- Communicate with all levels of management, engineering, procurement, quality, and project representatives on the progress of the project milestones /deliverables.
- Facilitate and participate in resolution of unanticipated or unplanned activities to bring projects back on plan.
- Manage, track and monitor project activity and performance, (schedule & budget), actively managing and reporting any deviations.
- Initiate and assist with processing of client invoices and manage invoice aging.
- Provide weekly / monthly project status reports as required to customers, internal and external.
- Provide input to continuously improve performance of the project operations through process improvements and manage relationships with key stakeholders to support the growth of this business.
- Provides feedback and effective recommendations into functional performance review processes.
- Provides feedback and effective recommendations into functional hire/fire/discipline processes.
- Makes effective decision/recommendation (or responsible for) with respect to resourcing requirements on the project (i.e. hiring and firing within the project).
- Direct experience of taking full responsibility for project deliv