Capital Projects Manager

Our company:

At Kalesnikoff, we honor our heritage by investing in our future. As a family-owned, fourth-generation company, we’ve evolved from our roots in the forests to become a leader in the timber industry, but we’re not just resting on tradition. Today, Kalesnikoff is at the forefront of innovation, combining decades of expertise with cutting-edge technology to redefine what’s possible in wood design and construction.

Role and Objectives:

Reporting to the CEO, the Capital Projects Manager is responsible for leading the planning, execution, oversight, and successful handover of Kalesnikoff's internal capital projects, including industrial building projects, site infrastructure upgrades, and major manufacturing upgrades and equipment installations.

This role provides clear ownership and accountability from project planning through construction, commissioning, and operational handover. The Capital Projects Manager ensures projects are properly scoped, scheduled, budgeted, documented, and executed safely while coordinating contractors, consultants, suppliers, regulators, and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Lead assigned capital projects from planning and construction through commissioning, closeout, and handover to Operations, including coordinating and directing internal labour required to complete project work.
• Develop project scopes, schedules, milestones, budgets, and execution plans.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, delays, cost pressures, and resource constraints.
• Provide leadership with clear reporting on project progress, budget performance, risks, delays, and key decisions.
• Ensure project decisions are documented and aligned with approved scope, budget, and business objectives.
• Support strong project governance by ensuring change management, scope changes, budget approvals, and delegation of authority requirements are clearly defined, followed, and documented as projects evolve.
• Support effective capital planning by helping define project assumptions, cost estimates, payback inputs, and implementation requirements.
• Ensure capital projects are delivered with appropriate financial oversight and accountability to minimize cost overruns, scope creep, schedule delays, and operational disruption.
• Maintain integrated project schedules covering construction, installation, commissioning, and turnover milestones.
• Manage project budgets, commitments, change orders, projected final costs, and contingency usage throughout the project lifecycle.
• Review contractor invoices, change orders, commitments, and project costs for accuracy and alignment with approved scope.
• Maintain clear financial visibility for each project, including projected final costs and contingency usage.
• Manage all contractors, consultants, vendors, and service providers involved in assigned projects.
• Coordinate contractor work plans, schedules, site access, safety requirements, and deliverables.
• Work with internal Kalesnikoff teams to clearly define internal labour and tasks versus external contractor scope.
• Support tendering, equipment sourcing, vendor evaluation, contract coordination, and negotiations where required.
• Ensure contractors and suppliers deliver work in accordance with scope, quality, timeline, safety requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Maintain contractor governance requirements, including verification of insurance, WorkSafeBC clearance, competency, compliance documentation, and other prequalification requirements to support safe, effective, and accountable project execution.
• Lead or support the execution of major manufacturing equipment installations, including coordination between suppliers, contractors, internal teams, and Operations.
• Ensure equipment installation requirements are identified early, including civil, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, controls, utilities, and space planning considerations.
• Coordinate equipment delivery, installation, commissioning readiness, training requirements, documentation, and operational handover.
• Ensure equipment projects include appropriate documentation, drawings, warranties, manuals, training requirements, spare parts information, and maintenance considerations.
• Support smooth integration of new equipment into existing operations while minimizing disruption to production and site activities.
• Ensure projects meet applicable regulatory, environmental, permitting, building code, inspection, and jurisdictional requirements.
• Coordinate with internal teams, consultants, contractors, and authorities having jurisdiction to support permitting and inspection requirements.
• Develop and maintain accurate records for Kales