Emergency Response Project Manager

Project Managers are responsible for executing projects that meet or exceed operational excellence, 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
- Ensuring that projects meet or exceed QM’s Health and Safety Policies and Programs.
- Cost estimating and bid proposal execution

**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
- 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 Project Management and business development in interacting with clients
- 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.
- Experience in preparing cost estimates and proposals
- Experienced 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.
- Understanding and 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
- Experienced in overseeing programs at both national and regional levels (preffered).

**Education**, **Certifications**
- Graduate from both a secondary and a post-secondary institution
- Graduate from a university program related to earth sciences or engineering (preferred)
- Certified Engineering Technologist or Professional Engineer would be an asset
- Project Management Professional (PMP) designation is an asset

**Knowledge**
- Of environmental legislation, standards, and guidelines related to contaminated sites
- Of the Project Management Body of Knowledge published by the Project Management Institute
- Of the engineering design, tender, and construction management processes and related contractual conditions for a variety of remediation technologies

**Abilities**
- To analyze and evaluate complex contaminated sites problems and to plan and lead multi-disciplinary teams of technical and field operations personnel and external consultants to execute remediation solutions
- To prepare detailed ‘bottom-up’ construction cost estimates for the purposes of responding to specific tender requests and in preparing analogous or ‘top-down’ estimates for budgetary purposes
- To understand contracts; communicate project risks effectively with clients and stakeholders and to negotiate contract changes

**WORK ENVIRONMENT**

Work is primarily in an office environment but requires frequent travel to work sites, to monitor