Senior Project Manager
- Transportation
- Vancouver
Senior Project Manager
AtkinsRéalis is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies. AtkinsRéalis has been providing infrastructure planning, engineering, construction, environmental consulting, urban planning, architecture, and program management services to public and private clients across the United States for more than 50 years. AtkinsRéalis has the depth and breadth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time-critical infrastructure projects and the urgent transition to a low-carbon economy.
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to provide leadership, direction, and technical guidance within assigned area of responsibility, to ensure that quality management and technical services are provided to clients and that operating performance targets are met. The Senior Project Manager will also mentor junior project managers associated with sophisticated and unconventional projects.
The successful Senior Project Manager will join an existing project in the greater Vancouver area that is currently in the construction phase, with AtkinsRéalis fulfilling an Owner’s Engineer role for a key client. The Senior Project Manager will provide leadership, direction, and technical guidance to the engineering disciplines and sub-consultants involved in the project. The Senior Project Manager will provide a direct interface with the Client Project Manager and senior Operational staff. Pertinent engineering disciplines involved include mechanical, structural, electrical, architectural, civil, and environmental. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating all engineering related aspects of the Project, ensure budgets are tracked and managed, and that project QA/QC components are executed.
Responsibilities:
- Manage complex projects within broad technical specialties, providing leadership and guidance to other project managers and technical associates.
- Oversee staffing decisions, performance reviews, and career development for assigned staff.
- Ensure project quality, financial performance, and compliance with schedules and budgets.
- Develop and implement strategic marketing plans, pursuing new business opportunities.
- Manage contracts, negotiate budgets, and ensure project profitability.
- Represent AtkinsRéalis to clients, regulatory agencies, sub-consultants, contractors, and others parties involved with projects.
Why choose AtkinsRéalis as an employer?
Because we offer:
- The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
- An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
- A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
- Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
- A work environment focused on health and safety.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (graduate degree preferred).
- 12 years of experience (or 11 years with an M.S.), with at least 3 years in a senior project management role involving infrastructure programs.
- Strong leadership, technical, financial management, and interpersonal skills.
- Professional registration (e.g., P. Eng., P.E., PMP, or CCM certification required within one year).
- Ability to manage multiple projects and travel as needed.
- Experience is preferred with industrial buildings and transportation infrastructure.
Expected compensation for this role is between $160 00.00 and $200 000.00. Base salaries are determined according to several parameters like skills, experience, and potential impact on the role. Internal and external competitiveness are also taken into account in our offers.
Are you up for this challenge? Apply today and join our team to help engineer a Better Future for our Planet and its People.
About AtkinsRéalis
Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-leading professional services and project management company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in key strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear, Operations & Maintenance and Capital.
At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
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