Project Director

Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading energy solutions provider dedicated to helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to net zero in the global energy transition. We are a trusted, full-service partner to public sector and government entities, K-12 schools, higher education, utilities, and healthcare customers across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Europe.

At Ameresco, we show the way by developing, constructing and operating tailored smart energy efficiency solutions, distributed energy resources, and infrastructure upgrades that drive cost savings, resilience, decarbonization, and innovation. Our comprehensive portfolio is built to address the challenges of today and adapt the future, ensuring long-term sustainability and success for our customers.

Ameresco's Atlantic Canada team as an immediate opening for a
Project Director
, overseeing a major Energy Savings Performance Contract at a federal client site near
Fredericton, NB
. This site-based role runs through 2027 and offers the opportunity to lead complex infrastructure upgrades, drive sustainability, and deliver measurable energy savings on a national scale.

Responsibilities

• Provide Senior Level Project Management, support, and oversight for Projects in Atlantic Canada.
• Manage and oversee project lifecycle, including feasibility, budgeting, scheduling, execution, and completion.
• Team Leadership & Development – Demonstrate proven leadership skills to supervise, mentor, and train project staff, including junior Project Managers, Construction Managers and Project Coordinators.
• Quality Assurance - Ensure construction is executed per approved plans, specifications, and quality standards.
• Contract Management - Negotiate and manage subcontracts, purchase orders, change orders, and contract responsibilities
• Relationship Management - Maintain strong relationships with owners, architects, consultants, subcontractors, and public stakeholders
• Manage budgets, cost forecasting, cash flow, payment requests, and change orders; ensure accurate financial tracking
• Develop, monitor, and update project schedules, identify the critical path, and implement recovery actions when needed
• Enforce corporate health and safety programs, ensuring compliance with Ameresco and client health & safety obligations.
• Collaboration with internal and external Engineering to ensure design development and coordination aligns with project goals, schedule and progress.
• Manage all administrative functions according to company policies, leveraging project management systems
• Provide monthly reports on cost forecasts, schedules, cash flow, and project reforecasts.
• Lead project close-out efforts, including archiving documentation, commissioning, resolving deficiencies, and ensuring warranty work
• Plan logistics, oversee site coordination, conduct meetings, and manage site administration
• Strategically oversee risk across the project and ensure mitigation measures are effectively implemented
• Provide a structured decision-making framework, ensuring clear accountability and escalation mechanisms
• Use robust project control systems for cost, schedule, and performance tracking, ensuring projects stay on track
• Sourcing resources for project managers as the project demands dictate
• Provide input to project team to consider alternate measures and suppliers to ensure we are not complacent based on past practice. Incorporate and integrate experiences from other projects with project managers to ensure best practices.
• Provide support and backup for project managers, as required.
• Achieve client and company spend/revenue targets
• Ensure compliance with our contractual obligations (to client and to subcontractors)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of combined related technical, design and project management experience, with demonstrated leadership skills and experience.
• Minimum of 5 years commercial/industrial power, electrical, mechanical, or engineering construction management experience focusing on complex facility infrastructure construction, renovations, retrofits, upgrades, building controls and automation, and energy services.
• Must be legally entitled to work in Canada without sponsorship.
• Must have valid drivers' license, in good standing.
• Required to obtain Federal Reliability Status security clearance as a condition of employment.
• Ability to travel to project sites in Atlantic Canada.

Additional Qualifications:

• Engineering degree, or technical diploma.
• Related university degree, certifications or training with equivalent experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) désignation.
• Experience delivering Energy Performance Contracting (EPC/ESCO) construction models.
• Experience delivering projects within Government of Canada agencies, departments, or environments.
• Experience with construction health & safety programs and certifications such as COR and/or ISO45001.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Project, and Adobe.
• Familiar with National Master Specification tender documents
• Proven experience with Alberta safety standards, additional safety certifications and courses through Alberta Construction Safety Association or another accredited provider,
• Leadership through Safety Excellence (LSE) through Alberta Construction Safety Association or equivalent
• Proven understanding of project management standards, principles and methodologies;
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and foster positive business relationships

Ameresco Canada Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.