Project Manager

**Forbes Bros Ltd. **is looking for a qualified **Project Managers **to join our growing team in Winnipeg, MB

The **Project** Manager **is responsible for providing overall guidance and management to one or more construction projects with responsibility for ensuring compliance with client requirements and ensuring that company internal requirements for safety, quality, schedule, and cost are met for each assigned project.

Forbes Bros Ltd. has a safety conscious, family-oriented culture that focuses on communication, innovation & respect in the workplace. Welcome to this exciting opportunity

**What We Offer**:

- Competitive wage
- Company Pension Program
- Comprehensive health benefits plan
- Annual boot allowance of $250 & other incentives if job requires FR clothing, PPE, etc.
- Family orientated working environment
- Opportunity for growth and development for all stages of your career

**Key Responsibilities & What We Will Teach You**:

- Lives Forbes Bros. value of WE WORK SAFE & never compromising on safety in all aspects of our every day
- Obtains technical guidance required to support Project technical issues. Guides field teams as required
- Ensures preparation and transmittal of submittals required for approval of technical issues, vendor documents, and material information
- Ensures tracking and collection of quality documents and provides correction of and proper documentation of field quality issues. Supports development of field quality procedures
- Prepares and updates project schedules, prepares recovery schedule when required, publishes schedules as requires for Clients and/or Company, including narrative schedule analysis of critical schedule elements
- Prepares budgets, tracks and analyzes costs, forecast, develop plans for improving cost performance, works with construction supervision to implement changes.
- Supports estimating team during estimate preparation. Provides supporting documents to help estimating, such as schedule, execution narratives, and other construction plans
- Read, review and understand contract content and requirements. Able to instruct and inform other of contract requirements
- Communicates with/or supervises communication with client concerning changes in contract scope or terms with goal to obtain appropriate change order
- Ensures preparation and submittal of necessary change order information to client and negotiate
- Manages materials and subcontracts from pre-qualification, bidding packages, negotiation, tracking, coordinating mobilization, managing performance, etc.
- General management and reporting of all projects within your scope
- Other projects & duties as assigned

**What We Are Looking For**:

- Post-secondary education in Construction Management, Project Management, an engineering discipline related to the company's work, or similar technical degree. Combination of experience and education will be considered
- Minimum of five (5) years related work experience or combination of education and years' experience,
- Preference given to those with ten (10), or more, years of experience combined with experience managing projects with contract values of at least $10 million
- Capable of providing direction to administration and field support staff of up to 5; capable of directing and coordinating installation crews; capable of managing multiple concurrent projects
- Knowledge of main construction office processes; project set-up; subcontract management; change orders; RFI's; closeout
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Project and Primavera P6
- Willingness to work in remote project locations, embedded in operational work groups, travel as needed
- Demonstrated skills in written and verbal communication, coordinating resources as well as the ability to analyze data and solve problems
- Proven ability to meet safety standards, to manage technical work scopes, maintain high quality product, execute a schedule, manage cost, contracts, reporting, material, and subcontractors