Project Manager - Building Engineering

Overview

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. With the power of many curious minds, we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Arcadis is seeking a dynamic Project Manager with an engineering background in buildings to join their team. You will have the opportunity to work within a talented and supportive team and take a lead role in key civil, institutional and commercial buildings projects. We work with our clients around the world to create, support, and enhance smart, safe and sustainable places where people live, work, learn and thrive.

Places impact the quality of people’s lives. Whether new homes, shops, workplaces, schools and hospitals, manufacturing, research and development facilities, or data and distribution centers, people and communities thrive when spaces are designed and managed in a way that best meets their needs.

• Direct and manage project delivery including defining project scope, specifying deliverables, estimating and controlling project duration, effort and cost, create detailed project plans and manage change requests.
• Manage industrial, commercial and institutional building projects from start of design to completion of construction.
• Ensure all deliverables are delivered on time and within budget.
• Drive an attitude within project teams to deliver solutions, resolving issues and risks as they arise, while managing a diverse project team.
• Conduct regular site visits to monitor construction progress, attend construction meetings, identify potential issues, and ensure compliance with design specifications and local regulations.
• Oversee and ensure contract administration deliverables are completed in accordance with client requirements.
• Review contractor activities to ensure conformance with contract documents and requirements.
• Provide oversight and confirmation of completed contract quantities are accurately calculated for processing progress and final payments.
• Review, interpret, and analyze the Contractor’s initial critical path schedule to determine conformance to the contract, and provide regular review and analysis of monthly critical path schedules.
• Supervise and perform quality assurance acceptance and inspection of construction works.
• Coordinate specialty inspection and testing.
• Liaise with the contractor and client representatives.
• Chair and lead project meetings.
• Provide interpretation and recommendation of contractor submittals.
• Negotiate price agreements, change orders, claims and work directives.
• Travel to projects across the province.
• Drive the requirements and analysis phase of the project by reviewing requirements documents, facilitating solution evaluation process, and managing RFP process where required.
• Work with clients, vendors and managers/supervisors, directing and developing project charters, project plans, costs estimates, business cases, steering committee presentations and other documentation supporting the requirements phase of the project.
• Drive day-to-day project activities through the application of sound project management principles and methodologies.
• Develop and maintain a detailed status, activities and issues report on each project to present to Management and major project stakeholders.
• Facilitate regular stakeholder and project sponsor meetings to define project direction and priorities in line with corporate objectives.
• Work with Business and Executive to establish meaningful, key metrics that properly reflect the performance of the team and indicates progress towards objectives.
• Work with the project team to conduct post-completion analysis of all projects and document post-completion recommendations, outstanding issues, and incomplete deliverables.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering preferred
• Minimum 8+ years full time experience in Project Management with projects related to industrial, commercial and institutional buildings
• Ability to read and interpret…