Project Manager

Overview:
**BE** Totally Engaged.
** BE** Business Savvy.
**BE** the Right Partner.
**BE** all that and more at Colliers Project Leaders.

As Colliers Project Leaders continues to attract exciting project opportunities, we seek a Project Manager with specific experience delivering projects in Correctional institutions (Canada or USA) or within a high-security environment similar to a correctional facility. The Project Manager will reside out of our Montreal, Quebec office.

**Colliers Project Leaders**

We lead building and infrastructure projects. Our
**Get it Right Solution** ensures we get it ready, get it built and get it performing - so investors, owners and occupants are certain of success.

With over 700 employees throughout Canada and the Middle East, Colliers Project Leaders offer a multi-cultural, multi-generational work environment where we cultivate excellence, develop leaders and deliver on client vision. Colliers Project Leaders is part of Colliers International Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGI; TSX: CIG), a global leader in commercial real estate services with more than 16,000 professionals operating from 502 offices in 67 countries.

**Responsibilities**:
**What you’ll get to do as a Project Manager at Colliers Project Leaders**:

- Develop strong client relationships and act as the client’s single point of contact throughout the project to achieve the client’s goals and objectives
- Ensure that client expectations and satisfaction are met or exceeded on all projects and the client’s best interests are represented with respect to contractual and technical issues
- Select and organize project teams and establish levels of authority and lines of communication
- Chair project and site meetings, find a resolution to issues and coordinate between multiple stakeholders
- Regularly reporting on project status by means of schedule updates, meeting minutes, financial records, and other reports
- Provide oversight and leadership to the change management process, payment certificates, and other contract or project-related administrative documents
- Lead the control of project-related documents and deliver all work in accordance with our Quality Management System and procedures
- Maintain contact with existing and prospective clients and respond to business development and sales opportunities with support from Senior Leadership

Qualifications:
**What you’ll need to be successful**:

- Experience in at least (3) successful construction projects in a correctional facility or similar high-security environment in the last (7) years with a minimum value of $ 1 million each. Correctional service environments can include detention facilities (prisons), airports, border crossings, police stations, court houses, immigration offices, and casinos.
- All (3) successful construction projects should include all traditional construction sets (mechanical, electrical, architectural) and such things as building security and locking systems, electronic security systems, cameras, etc.
- Experience representing owners to multiple stakeholders in the delivery of projects
- A minimum of 5 years of experience managing public sector construction projects (federal, provincial, municipal, school boards, etc.)
- A degree in civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering OR in architecture
- Professional order or association memberships and PMP certifications will be considered an asset
- Strong knowledge of various types of construction methodologies, project management models, and financial management, as well as building codes, contract law, and relevant legislation
- Effective leadership and organizational skills with the ability to effectively influence others and successfully resolve a variety of client, project, and technical issues
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills

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