Project Manager

**Job description**

QM Environmental is one of Canada’s largest full-service national decommissioning and environmental remediation firms. Always committed to health, safety and 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 - Specialty Construction, Remediation to join our team in **Mississauga, ON.**

QM’s Remediation division includes a specialty construction group that handles projects with elements that are challenging, multi-disciplinary, integrated, and often design build in nature. This portfolio includes projects such as Permeable Reactive Barriers, Hydraulic Cutoff Walls, In-situ Systems, Geo-structural, Soil Mixing, Soil Stabilization, and other unique scopes.

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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.

**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 / post mortem (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 purposes 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**
- Graduate from both a secondary and a post-secondary institution
- Graduate from a university program related to earth sciences, environment, or engineering (preferred)
- Certified Engineering Technologist or Professional Engineer would be an asset but is not required

**Knowledge**
- Of environmental legislation, standa