Senior Project Manager, Mining and Civil

Job Description                   

Senior Project Manager – Mining & Civil Reporting to: National Manager – Special Projects Division:  Environmental Services   QM Environmental is one of Canada’s largest full-service national decommissioning and environmental remediation firms. Always committed to health, safety and environment; QM has been experiencing a consistent growth in the last years and we would like to invite you to be part of this team.   We offer exciting career growth, professional development, and a culture that is supported by teamwork and open communication. At QM, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with some of the most talented professionals and innovative thought-leaders in the industry.   We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Special Projects team in BC to focus on mining and large civil projects.

Salary Range: $120,000.00 – $150,000.00

POSITION SUMMARY

Senior Project Managers are responsible for executing projects that meet or exceed 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, and
• Ensuring that projects meet or exceed QM’s Health and Safety Policies and Programs.

As a Senior Project Manager the Mining & Civil group you will have specific responsible for winning and the delivery of complex environmental construction projects focused on the mining and civil construction industries such as:

• Site Servicing & Preparation (access roads, clearing & grubbing, topsoil, bulk excavation)
• Landfill Construction & Engineered Covers
• Civil Earthworks (Containment Dams, Dykes, Levees)  
• Mine Tailings Management
• Borrow Pit Management & Aggregate Production
• Soil Excavation, Remediation, Treatment, & Disposal
• Ecological Construction, Site Reclamation & Revegetation

RESPONSIBILITIES

This is a general job description for the Senior Project Manager role across all business lines. Specific duties may vary based on the business or project.

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
• Planning, scheduling and preparing for upcoming works
• Identifying changes to site conditions
• Preconstruction submittals / permits
• 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)
• Change order management
• Project official communications / documentation
• Chairing project meetings
• Ensuring / optimizing job profitability and financial performance
• Invoicing (with Project Administrator support)

Financial

• Lead and approve invoices from QM
• Preparing cost estimates for future works and change orders
• Change order management
• 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 using the most recent version of the field pack
• Providing information for creation of accurate purchase orders and managing purchase order process
• Ensuring project budget is up to date in NAV (working with Project Administrator)

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

• Is aware of and understands the application of all health and safety rules and regulations that apply, including QM’s Health and Safety Policies and Programs
• 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

Other duties and responsibilities, as required

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in managing multi-disciplinary and complex civil construction projects in excess of $10 million
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Construction Manager, Project Manager or Site Superintendent with responsibility for managing large environmental or civil construction sites, including managing field crews and subcontractors (50+ employees, over one year in duration)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in business development and interacting with clients
• In project management and at least 10 years with the direct responsibility for all resource allocation and management responsibilities and with the administration of prime contracts, subcontracts, and contract changes.
• Experienced in the effective utilization of heavy equipment used in large environmental or civil construction projects
• Experience preparing construction cost estimates, change orders, invoices
• Experience selecting and hiring sub-contractors
• In 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.
• In 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

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
• Health and Safety certifications are 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
• Of heavy equipment used on remediation and construction sites, and the effective and efficient utilization of the equipment
• Of obtaining and maintaining a secure site, where Security Clearances are required

Abilities

• Effective leadership skills, with the ability to lead site teams and subcontractors
• 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
• To work effectively with various computer software applications such as spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel or similar), project management and scheduling (Microsoft Project or similar), financial accounting (Explorer Contract Manager or similar);

Personal Suitability

• Effective interpersonal relations
• Leadership
• Initiative
• Thoroughness

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is primarily on project site in Vancouver, BC , with local travel as necessary.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION:

As proponents of Canada’s Black North Initiative, QM continues to support a culture of integrity, fairness and ethical practices.QM Environmental is a staunch advocate for diversity in all its forms, and especially welcomes applications from members of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) community, women, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community, and those of diverse intersectional identities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process as well as part of employment with QM Environmental.