Senior Project Manager - Industrial

Stantec Buildings is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. We take an innovative, collaborative approach to projects, sharing a common belief that sustainable design for the built environment can make the world a better place for future generations. Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Join a Top 10 global design firm in our Commercial and Industrial Buildings practice that provides Architecture, Buildings Engineering, and Interior Design services with a long history and deep commitment to the commercial sector. We are seeking a Project Manager to join our buildings practice.

As a senior contributor on our professional Buildings team, you will work independently to assist clients through the planning and creation of fiscally responsible, cutting edge designs. Your experience ensures that you are quite familiar with construction plans, specifications, estimates and building codes. You will be innovating and creating new prototypes designed with sustainable products with green architecture sensibility as your goals.

You will lead the development of integrated design proposals, develop and manage integrated work plans, manage project financials, and coordinate with clients, while leading and mentoring others and collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables as required under instruction from the Project Leader.

• Responsible for managing complex tasks on medium to large size projects.

• Plan, organize, and direct the work throughout the life of the project to successfully deliver the project to the client.

• Keep the Principal in Charge informed of progress on project expectations, deadlines, and deliverables and understand the limits of the decision-making responsibilities of the role and respect the boundaries of the Principal in Charge’s responsibilities.

• Lead the client and project team to assure that the project design meets the client budget, schedule, program, and design intent. Participate in client project requirement meetings and value analysis and basic cost estimating.

• In collaboration with the Project Architect this role will lead the technical portion of the project including discipline coordination and providing technical direction to the design team including but not limited to building codes and requirements of other regulatory agencies.

• Assist in the negotiation and development of project agreements.

• Develop and manage project budget, schedule, and overall work plan to realize target financial performance and Participate in constructability reviews along with the design team if needed.

• Mentor Assistant Project Managers and motivate project teams.

• Assure that Project Management Framework tasks are timely completed and properly documented.

• Lead project coordination and owner/site meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors.

• In collaboration with the project Architect, manage the construction administration phase with the design team, including but not limited to reviewing shop drawings and submittals, responds to RFIs, prepares site observation reports, and other contract administration tasks.

• Manage and track change orders, applications for payment by contractors and other contractual modifications impacting budget and schedule.

• Conduct quality assurance and quality control on own projects if required

• Participate in constructability review along with the design team if required

• Work with Operations Manager in determining project staffing needs and recommending personnel.

• Directs client invoicing and effectively manages collections.

• Strong Revit skills, familiarity with clash coordination strategies a plus.

Project Support & Leadership

Capable of simultaneously supporting one or more Principals in Charge across multiple projects, ensuring consistent alignment with project goals, timelines, and client expectations.

Code & Standards Expertise

Demonstrates a thorough…