Company: Stantec

Location: Vancouver, BC

Job description: Job description: Project Manager – Power – ( 250001UC ) Description Join a team that does more than generate…. Your Key Responsibilities: The Project Manager will be responsible for managing new and existing projects, developing…

Job Summary: Project Manager – Power

Position: Project Manager
Reference: 250001UC

Role Overview:
Join a dynamic team focused on delivering impactful projects in the power sector.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage new and ongoing projects.
• Develop project plans and ensure timely execution.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure project success.

This role is essential for driving project efficiency and achieving strategic goals in the power industry.

The job description for the Project Manager – Power position at Stantec in Vancouver, BC, is as follows:

Job Title: Project Manager – Power

Location: Vancouver, BC

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

Job Description:

Join a team that does more than generate and deliver electricity through its work; join a team that powers growth and advances communities. Seeing beyond the project at hand, you’ll work with us to advance the industry and build your career. We operate with the strength of a $3B company, have the agility of a specialized power group, and work on some of the most challenging and cutting-edge projects around the world. Whether helping to define microgrids, pushing the boundaries on clean energy, or grid modernization, you’ll find yourself working with leaders in transmission & distribution, thermal and hydro generation, and renewable energy in one of the world’s top 10 design firms, broadening your skills and developing your career.

Your Opportunity:

Stantec delivers best-in-class project delivery through professional project management – executing exceptionally for clients around the globe. Stantec is seeking highly qualified applicants to lead interesting projects as part of our successful Power business operations in British Columbia. Our Power business has a multidisciplinary staff that specializes in delivering projects to utility clients in the areas of distribution, transmission, and substation design, upgrade, conversion, and expansion.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Personally, pursue and serve as a project manager for projects, managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk in compliance with Stantec’s PM framework.
• Maintain and enhance our reputation with clients, approval agencies, and industry professionals as an outstanding service provider.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Work with discipline leads to establish project objectives, procedures, and performance standards.
• Exercise initiative in addressing problem situations and resolve most project delivery-related matters.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams through proposals, feasibility work all the way to final designs, and construction support as required by the projects.
• Manage contract tasks, track and manage costs and schedule, and implement measures necessary to stay on schedule and within budget utilizing established project management procedures within Stantec.
• Lead by example with active support of internal policies and practices, including risk management, project management, and quality management.
• Develop and foster client relationships to facilitate project activities.
• Provide guidance, training, and mentorship for junior and intermediate engineers and designers.
• Lead project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors.

Your Capabilities and Credentials:

• Strong project management skills, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing projects from pursuit through closeout, involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors.
• Demonstrated experience in client service management.
• Experienced in project management, including defining and setting the direction for a team, project, and change management as required.
• Demonstrated successful experience/knowledge in decision making, as well as assessing, evaluating, and solving project management challenges.
• Demonstrated successful experience in project earned value management, including analysis of cost and schedule variances, development of bottoms-up estimates to complete, and analysis of estimates at completion to ensure successful project management during all project stages.
• Familiarity with delivery of high-volume design projects as well as KPI development to measure design and team performance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as strong interpersonal skills to effectively work and collaborate with a wide range of internal and external customers.
• Technical skill set in Energy, including transmission, distribution, and substation design and operation.
• Familiarity with BC Hydro project deliverables and standards.

For more details and to apply, please visit the job posting on Careerjet.

Expected salary:

Job date: Fri, 09 May 2025 23:37:12 GMT