Senior Project Manager - BRT and Roads

Ghd

The Role

Overview

Lead BRT and road projects, managing delivery, risk, stakeholders, and business development.

Key Responsibilities

  • resource management
  • scope definition
  • risk management
  • project delivery
  • change management
  • stakeholder engagement

Tasks

-Project Resource Management: Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization. -Project Proposals: Contribute to the development and execution of the business development strategy for relevant clients, including creating capture plans and enhancing client relationships. Supporting Business Development including capture planning and leading proposals. -Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons. -Project Scope Definition: Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables. -Project Team Management: Teamwork in small and large teams. Owning the integration with other engineering disciplines, engineers, and design staff in the production of high-quality project deliverables. -Transformational Change Management: Manage projects or substantial workstreams within a transformational change program, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to build acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors. -Portfolio Management: Lead Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and road and bridge projects for municipal clients as a Project Manager. -Project Governance: Monitors project schedules, coordinates and maintains contact with sub-consultants, Municipalities, Utility companies, Railway Owners and Operators and Clients, and assists with contract administration as assigned. -Project Risk and Issue Management: Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns. -Project Benefit Realization: Deliver baseline assessments and post-implementation analyses to evaluate and track the realization of business benefits. -Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level. -Project Delivery: Delivering GHD’s projects to budget, schedule and quality standards; provides overall supervision and project management leadership. -Project Assurance: Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality. -Leadership and Direction: Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals. -Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice.

Requirements

  • master's
  • 15+ years
  • p.eng.
  • transportation
  • brt
  • gta

What You Bring

-Master's Degree or Equivalent Level -15+ years' experience in design and engineering of transportation infrastructure projects including BRT, -Ontario P.Eng. designation required (or eligible) -Experience working with municipal transportation clients within the Greater Toronto Area.

The Company

About Ghd

-With a focus on innovation, it integrates expertise across various sectors to deliver world-class solutions. -The organization is known for tackling large and complex projects, such as designing bridges and tunnels and constructing energy-efficient buildings. -Notable projects include infrastructure development for major cities and energy-efficient solutions for industrial facilities. -The organization continues to expand its digital and technological capabilities to ensure solutions are cutting-edge and sustainable.

Sector Specialisms

Water

Energy

Resources

Environment

Property and Buildings

Transportation

Hydrology and Hydrodynamics

Digital Technologies

Engineering

Architecture

Environmental Services

Construction Services

Geological Engineering

Energy Management

Water Management

Dams

Mining Solutions

Asset Management

Hydrogen Projects

Water Operations

Sustainability

Automation

Disaster Response