Project Manager

Tasks

**Your Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Supervisor, Project Management within the Projects & Technology department, the Project Manager is responsible for managing projects for KSPC, from project initiation through implementation and turnover to operations.

The types of projects this position will be responsible to lead are maintenance projects and multi year base capex. The project management role communicates project status including progress, risk/opportunities, schedule, and cost performance indicators in the project portfolio list. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Ensure projects are executed according to the agreed upon project charter and approvals
- Ensure project delivery schedule and scope meets the operational objectives
- Work with the capital projects controller to ensure cost of the projects are within budget and meet corporate reporting and accounting guidelines
- Project Change management from project activities or external client ensuring changes are evaluated before being implanted
- Coordinate with Operations and Engineering to complete technical design deliverables/project scope trade off evaluations
- Manage multi-discipline projects and a project team (indirect) for small projects (5-10 people). Project manager will need to develop resource plans for project execution and manage the project task for that team member
- Work with procurement to purchase materials, setup contracts and complete bid evaluations
- Work with planner to issue work package and develop material and contracting plans
- Assist construction coordinators with technical questions and support.
- Ensure that K+S Potash Canada is at all times in compliance with Safety, Health and Environmental regulatory and internal laws and policies
- Benefits

**We enrich your life**:

- By living our common K+S values across all our locations in the world: We are optimistic about our future, collaborative in building it, and with our entrepreneurial spirit, we aim to dig deeper and reach higher. We remain agile in an ever-changing world. We are innovative, turning obstacles into opportunities - and we do it all in ways that are safe and sustainable, protecting future generations.
- We are committed to being a company where every employee can contribute, grow and thrive, and where we reflect the diverse communities in which we live and work. We are working toward a truly inclusive environment, because we know that the amazing array of differences in our backgrounds, competencies, experiences, race, gender, age, beliefs, sexual orientation, identity and their intersections is key to the longevity, sustainability and growth of our organization.
- In a career with K+S Potash Canada (KSPC), you can look forward to:

- Good People and Great Culture
- Be part of a team committed to building an innovative and diverse culture. KSPC is growing our business, delivering exciting new opportunities, and giving back to the communities where we live and work.
- Challenge and Growth
- We support your growth and potential through professional development, training, and a robust performance recognition program.
- Valuable Compensation
- Our total target compensation is competitive and benchmarked to the market. We have a Pay-for-Performance philosophy that includes two components: fixed (base) pay, and a short-term incentive (bonus) that rewards employees for their contributions towards corporate, team and individual successes.
- Supporting Benefits
- Our comprehensive, employer-paid benefits program includes Life, Disability, Health and Dental, as well as competitive Retirement benefits, Employee and Family Assistance Program, paid work time to help out in your community (volunteer with a sports team or a charitable organization of your choice) and more We offer a Health Spending Account for extras, like more expensive glasses, or a Wellness Account that covers recreational items, like your park camping fees, hunting or fishing license, and your gym membership.- Requirements

**Your Profile**:

- 5+ years’ experience in a heavy industrial setting. (Potash experience preferred)
- 8+ years’ experience in project management
- Bachelor’s degree, or 10 years project/trade/operations experience
- Experience working/communicating with government and regulatory groups is preferred
- Strong communication skills including demonstrated facilitation skills
- PMP designation (preferred)
- Experience adapting to and overcoming changing priorities and challenges
- Experience building and maintaining positive relationships with stakeholders
- A high safety standard for themselves and their colleagues

**Be part of our team**:
- About the company

**This is Us**:

- We enrich life through the sustainable extraction and refinement of minerals to indispensable products and through our working environment, which is unique. Because it stands for everything that really matters in life: Trust, team spirit and meaningfulness