Project Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Junior/Intermediate Project Manager
Location: Ottawa, ON
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Annual Salary: $65,000-85,000

About BMT

BMT is dedicated to tackling the most crucial engineering challenges of our era, fostering an environment where individuals with exceptional technical expertise provide meaningful, practical solutions. Committed to creating a safer, more efficient, effective, and sustainable future, BMT values diversity, equity, and inclusion, recognizing their pivotal role in achieving our business purpose. Learn more about BMT at www.bmt.org.

Key Responsibilities

A BMT Project Manager (PM) manages a team of professionals provided by BMT’s Capability resource pool, to deliver project outcomes, as defined by BMT’s Program Management team, to a contracted customer group.
A Junior/Intermediate PM has responsibilities to, with guidance, oversee or support project activities such as the following:

Planning

• Support project work at all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Plans for the collection, verification and validation of requirements to meet overall project scope.
• Facilitate the definition of activities within a project, including the integration with adjacent activities to create a logical and achievable schedule.
• Facilitates the analysis of resource availability and critical path scheduling to agreed milestones.
• Help to develop and gain approval of budgets and cost reporting.
• Perform strategic planning and analysis, business case development, cost estimates and options analyses.
• Contribute to the review and application of contract terms and conditions for a project.

Delivery

• Contribute to assessment and reporting of project health, and forecasting of project performance.
• Support review and amendment of project plans, if issues arise during project delivery
• Contribute to the monitoring and review of progress towards achieving outcomes/outputs.
• Contribute to the selection and tasking of project team members to deliver activities.
• Demonstrate the ability to manage delivery from external suppliers.

People

• Contribute to the overall management of the project team, including the interaction between team members and the activities for which they are responsible.
• Demonstrate effective management of the relationship with representatives of the customer organization at all levels.

Control and Governance

• Facilitate activities which contribute to demonstration of project quality and support acceptance of project work products.
• Contribute to the definition of project milestones and associated invoicing.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement through effective participation in the learning from experience process.
• Demonstrate an awareness of risk assessment techniques, both qualitative and quantitative.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

We are looking for enthusiastic and flexible team members, who possess the following knowledge, experience, and skills:

• Experienced with planning tools and techniques, and ability to apply local planning and activity sequencing.
• Familiar with project and schedule practices within building construction or related industries.
• Experience in preconstruction activities including design reviews, tendering, award meetings, and project launch.
• Ability to work with others in a team, speaking fluent English.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, during 5 years previous project experience.

Desirable:

• Facility planning and site analysis experience.
• Experience developing statements of requirements and functional space requirements.
• Knowledge of government and defence capital project practices.
• Written and spoken French
• Certified Project Management Professional, or similar certification
• College level education or greater with history of professional development

Why Work For Us?

At BMT we believe in hiring the best talent, from diverse backgrounds, as this introduces new ideas to the team and our customers. We believe in a cooperative and collaborative work environment and support and encourage career growth.

The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary commensurate with skill, ability and experience, as well as a comprehensive benefit package including:

• Medical, dental and vision plan (including a Health Care Spending Account)
• Employee and Family Assistance program
• Parental/Maternity leave top-up program
• RRSP or TFSA matching program
• Flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement
• Training and development opportunities
• Employee recognition program
• Employee referral program