Senior Capital Project Manager

23 month Fixed Term Contract

Position Summary

Senior Project Managers have accountability and authority for achieving a project’s objectives.  They direct a multi-disciplinary team aiming to complete a project. This position will be in Engineering, focused on the coordination of capital investment to support the ongoing manufacturing expansion.

What you will do

• Lead the team in the development of the project charter and management plan. Direct, manage, monitor, and control project. Evaluate trade-offs within project.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to develop, manage and own project scope. Create detailed Work Breakdown Structure.
• Develop and manage the detailed project Gantt chart. Analyse critical path, major workstreams, and intersecting milestones. Own the project schedule.
• Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define project budget. Monitor and maintain costs within budget.
• Partner with project team to create project Quality Plans using 2-3 quality planning tools and techniques. Monitor and maintain plans.
• Develop a risk management plan for the project. Identify, analyse, and understand project risks; develop and monitor a risk response plan.
• Develop a Procurement Management Plan and collaborate on the selection of procurement partners.
• Estimate, acquire and assign cross functional project resources. Define the role, responsibility, and deliverables for each team member. Provide direct feedback to functional manager on performance reviews.
• Develop a Stakeholder management plan for the project, based on the identification, analysis and understanding of Stakeholder expectations.
• Develop and execute the communications management plan for project team and the needs of key stakeholders.

What you will need

• Bachelor's Degree in related field,
• PMP or equivalent
• 6+ years of hands-on experience managing projects of increasing complexity required.
• Builds successful working relationships with internal and external personnel in various departments. Understands quality system(s)..
• Adept at team management: selects the right people to the right tasks all while maintain team morale and recognizing contributions. 
• Incorporates end-user feedback to refine scope through the project lifecycle and can communicate changes, updates and decisions to key stakeholders
• Can understand and communicate how goals fit into broader organizational goals, and prioritize tasks/schedule accordingly.
• Keeps the customer at the heart of what we do.
• Exercises good judgment and can weigh benefits and risk in order to make solid decisions despite ambiguity.
• Growth mindset – ability to learn quickly and adapt to a changing environment.