Project Manager (Engineering) at Giffen Consulting Ltd in Toronto, Ontario

Job description

• Giffen Consulting Ltd. (Giffen) is looking for an experienced Project Manager to join our growing team. This is a hybrid work arrangement with a minimum of 3 days per week in our Vancouver or Toronto office. Working across mining, utilities, and heavy industrial projects, you'll take ownership of multidisciplinary engineering projects from initiation through close-out while helping shape how we continue to grow as a company.
• This is more than a project management role. It's an opportunity to influence project delivery, strengthen client relationships, mentor project teams, and contribute to the continued growth of a collaborative and entrepreneurial engineering firm. If you're looking for a role where your work has a visible impact, your ideas are valued, and your career can grow alongside the business, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• The ideal candidate will be able to ensure the financial success of our projects by managing project scope, schedule, and budgets here at Giffen. Responsibilities include:
• Maintain and develop strong client relationships throughout the project lifecycle, including close-out. Identify, document, and communicate client requirements while effectively managing multiple stakeholders.
• Proactively resolves performance, scope, cost, and schedule issues with the Client as they arise.
• Ensure projects are managed in accordance with contract terms and conditions.
• Clearly define project scope and ensure compliance with contract requirements.
• Manage change and project interfaces while monitoring performance to identify and mitigate issues early.
• Oversee all project scope elements, manage design, support procurement, and construction activities to align with the project schedule.
• Support proposals and cost estimates.
• Collaborate with the Project Services Team to establish cost reports, forecasting, approvals, trend identification, and cost-saving opportunities.
• Define project quality requirements.
• Support develop a project schedule that allows work to be executed efficiently while ensuring compliance with Company policies and procedures.
• Provide clear and focused leadership to the project team, creating a vision for success and a strategy to achieve key milestones and objectives.
• Ensure accurate and timely progress reporting to both the client and internal teams. Continuously monitor communication channels between project staff, the client, and third parties, implementing improvements as needed.
• Identify project risks and opportunities, ensuring timely resolution and proactive mitigation strategies.
• Set clear objectives for the design team and ensure adherence to the client's Basis of Design, regulations, and codes.
• Ensure all HSE procedures are followed and that project participants understand and document compliance with safety requirements.

Requirements

• 4+ years of progressive experience in a multidisciplinary engineering environment (EPC, EPCM, IPD, etc.).
• Experience with complex projects values ranging from $500K - $10M.
• Extensive knowledge relating to the engineering design phase of projects
• Familiar with greenfield and brownfield mining / heavy industrial projects.
• Knowledge of industry standards, regulations, and codes of practice.
• Registered as a Professional Engineer or Applied Science Technologist in Canada or eligible to register.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation with the Project Management Institute (PMI).
• The MMCD Certified Contract Administrator (MMCD CCA) designation.

Skills

Required

• Project management
• Client relationship management
• Stakeholder management
• Scope, schedule, and budget management
• Contract management
• Change management
• Risk management
• Leadership
• Communication
• Knowledge of engineering design phase

Benefits

• Giffen is an open, welcoming, accepting, and positive space for all our employees and contractors. Here are some of the perks
• of working for us!
• Connect through monthly, continuous performance management meetings
• Encourage continual learning through courses and conferences
• Support professional designation certification
• Invest in our people through a variety of corporate programs
• Host company-wide social events
• Small, growing team
• Competitive compensation package including RRSP matching program
• Employee Health Spending Account
• Short + Long-Term Incentives
• Flexible Work-From-Home option
• Offices in Downtown Vancouver & Downtown Toronto
• $100,000 - $150,000