Project Manager 1

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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that’s where you come
in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our
customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond
during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a
solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be
ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we
build an even cleaner B.C.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Duties**:
- Provide project management support to the Fish and Aquatics team, and other Water Program

teams, for a variety of environmental programs encompassing monitoring studies, physical works,
- consultative processes, and other fish technical programs.- As a Project Manager on various projects, provide contract management, financial management,

contractor safety requirements, and procurement. This may include the usage of PM tools like
- Primavera P6 to track progress, spend and resourcing.- Help develop and support the implementation of engagement plans with Indigenous Groups,

regulatory agencies, and regional stakeholders, including facilitating technical forums regarding
- Fish and Aquatics programs. This may include decision support and usage of tools, like Structured
- Decision Making (SDM).- Ensure quality assurance by engaging peers or experts to review study designs and outputs to

determine quality, accuracy, and adequacy of methods and results for addressing management
- questions and objectives guiding the work.- Integrate work with other disciplines (e.g., safety, environmental field services, and operations

management) through pro-active communication, team meetings, work planning and information
- exchange.- Develop and present internal recommendation documents, including the preparation of business

cases (expense authorization requests) budget requests and contract requests.- Review, edit, and present project reports and, at completion, finalize all financial transactions

and complete final reports.- Communicate with various regulators, including the Department of Fisheries and Oceans,

Comptroller of Water Rights, and regional regulators from the provincial government, seeking
- program relief or extensions based on the outcomes of technical forums and internal review of
- studies.- Lead other resources to assist in the implementation of the program.

**Qualifications**:
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- Minimum of eight (8) years' related experience with relevant experience in environmental project

management and stakeholder engagement. Experience with hydroelectric operation and
- construction would be an asset.- Bachelor or graduate degree in biology, environmental sciences, environmental engineering, or

resource management.- An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered.
- Eligibility for professional designation is an asset (e.g., professional Biologist, Project

Management Professional, or Engineer)- Strong facilitation, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Conflict resolution skills and experience would be an asset.
- Good planning, organizational, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Experience with multi-disciplinary teams and strong internal and external relationship skills.
- Good technical writing, editing, and presentation skills.
- Experience engaging Indigenous Groups and/or stakeholders over controversial issues.
- Demonstrated leadership ability.
- Considerable project management knowledge and skills.
- Demonstrated usage of decision frameworks (e.g., Structured Decision Making) or trade-off

analysis is an asset.- Other relevant experience may include familiarity with: Primavera 6, Project and Portfolio

Management, project management tools, and statistical analysis.**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**
- Please note some travel may be required with this role.
- This role will be posted concurrently.
- As part of the selection process, applicants may be required to take a written test/assessment or

do a presentation.
- A condition of employment for this role is to maintain your Class 5 Driver's License in good

standing.
We're always looking for exceptional people to bring new ideas, fresh thinking and the motivation
to help shape the electricity system in B.C. It's an exciting time to be a part of our team as we
invest in our system and prepare to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

Our values guide our work. Want to join us?

We are safe.
We are here for our customers.
We are one team.
We include everyone.
We act with integrity and respect.
We are forward thinking.

BC Hydro is an equal opportunity employer.

minorities, women, Indig