Senior Project Manager (Industrial)

Division: Canada - Toronto

Project Location(s): Toronto, ON M4C 1M5 CAN

Minimum Years Experience: 8

Travel Involved: 20-30%

Job Type: Regular

Job Classification: Experienced

Education: Bachelors Degree

Job Family: Construction

Compensation: Salaried Exempt

Position Description: Oversee multiple and large scope construction projects and teams; manage technical, administrative and training support for project development, with emphasis on project engineering in collaboration with Operations team.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure supervisors across assigned projects engage in regular performance and development discussions with their direct reports.
• Excellent knowledge of construction cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing, and engineering principles and techniques, and basic understanding of Turner accounting procedures
• Take lead of off-site document storage and retrieval for each assigned project.
• Review project forecasting and attend Turner Forecasting System (TFS) meetings with project teams across each assign project.
• Conduct regular jobsite visits to assigned projects and attend jobsite meetings to assist with risk management.
• Advanced knowledge of various construction methods and materials, their characteristics, installation procedures and tolerances
• Engage and communicate with Architects and Engineers on topics important to construction industry and impacts to projects.
• Active participation in each project’s start-up and maintain general overview of project procedures throughout project.
• Advanced project management skills, able to manage concurrent project and prioritize responsibilities for self and team
• Attend Operational Review Meetings (ORM) and Owner Architect Contractor (OAC) meetings for assigned projects.
• Focus on continuous improvement efforts for content within procedures manuals; expand new content and procedures for areas in need of attention.
• Collect great practices or good examples and formats for various procedures or methods, including scheduling, budgeting and QC Plans from jobsite visits and share across projects.
• Remain current on Turner’s value-add services and manage jobsite rollout of new technologies throughout assigned projects.
• Qualifications:
• Attend and actively participate in project staff resourcing meetings.
• Excellent presentation delivery, verbal, and written communication skills
• Understand continuous improvement methods and tools
• Proficient computer skills and Microsoft suite of applications
• Oversee execution of multiple client contracts.
• Foster open exchange of information and regularly lead meetings to discuss operational excellence (e.g., budgeting, QC, etc.), current challenges, relevant issues, lessons learned, and lean initiatives.
• Lead creation of and make available various detailed project checklists with emphasis on risk management.
• Ensure each project maintains up-to-date Launch and Closeout Boards; review closeout procedures with each project, and present and report on project status during Launch and Closeout meetings.
• Ensure projects maintain strict adherence to safety, ethics, and compliance requirements at all times.
• Monitor and assist in development, training, and evaluation of project staff across projects.
• Manage multiple projects and serve as resource to Operations teams, offer engineering and other project engineering related insight, knowledge, direction, and support.
• Possess solid problem solving and analytical capabilities, familiar with basic lean culture and concepts
• Manage QC inspections to ensure installations are per contract documents and in accordance with approved shop drawings.
• Approachable and effectively interact with all employee levels and management
• Prior industrial experience required.
• Conduct timely performance and development discussions with direct reports and complete related documentation.
• Bachelor’s Degree from accredited degree program in Engineering or Architecture, minimum 8 years of building construction experience required or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Attend conferences and industry seminars to gather information on new technologies or new systems to review impact to projects.
• Perform constructability reviews during Preconstruction and work with Preconstruction team to prepare estimates for multiple assigned projects.
• Conduct weekly reviews and adherence of Project Schedule for assigned projects.
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.
• Participate in project tenders, bid levelling, and scope reviews, and award meetings.
• Review assigned projects’ Project Execution Plan and Quality Control (QC) Plans.
• Management and leadership experience

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the

essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the

essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle,

or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands, talk, and hear. The employee frequently views a computer monitor and

frequently uses a computer keyboard. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth

perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee is regularly required to be mobile and the employee occasionally travels

both short and long distances via a variety of conveyances. The employee regularly performs work on-site at construction work

sites and occasionally at office locations, and/or off-site venues. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 4.5 kg and

occasionally lift and/or move up to 23 kg.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the

essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the

essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in an office or remote setting. The

noise in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate in an office setting. While performing the duties of this job, the

employee regularly works at construction work sites where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts, high precarious

places, fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, and risk of electrical shock. The noise in the work environment is

usually moderate to loud. The employee is required to work in compliance with company safety policies, procedures, and

applicable laws.

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Turner does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiting agencies. Turner will not be responsible for fees related to unsolicited resumes and for candidates who are sent directly to our hiring managers.

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer —minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity.

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