Senior Consultant

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Consultant - Procurement Specialist
Location: Victoria, BC, Halifax, NS, or Ottawa, ON
Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time

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

The Senior Program Services Consultant – Procurement Specialist is responsible for providing experienced professional advice and support on a broad spectrum of customer and internal projects, including leading projects within their area of expertise.

Senior PS Consultant - Specialists can expect to:

• Facilitate complex in-person and virtual sessions to guide technical, procurement, and contract representatives to develop sustainment solutions and contracts to meet the Defence Procurement Strategy requirements, and follow the SBCA process.
• Draft sustainment documentation to assist teams including Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Statements of Work, Contract documentation, workshop decks and templates.
• Act as a SBCA Sprint Sustainment Facilitator, including:
  • Guiding the core team on the process;
  • Guiding the team through workshop presentations;
  • Using templates to guide discussions;
  • Directing document facilitator to capture action items and display documents; and
  • Ensuring technical scribe captures appropriate information.
• Act as SBCA Sprint Technical Scribe, including:
  • Documenting WBS refinements;
  • Summarizing outcomes and outputs from OAs in the Sprint Outcome Document;
  • Capturing pricing approaches within the WBS; and
  • Documenting KPIs and Performance Management Frameworks in Sprint Summary Documents.
• Provide support to BMT Project Managers across multidisciplinary teams at various locations.
• Bring best industry practice to the attention of our customers and BMT project leaders, providing guidance in its adoption, or recommendations for future implementation.
• Build and support a culture of trust and mutual respect on project teams and with customers.
• Demonstrate a growing ability to anticipate customer needs and meet unwritten expectations.
• Contribute to the development of peers through formal or informal training, mentoring and guidance activities.
• Identify, enroll and engage in professional development activities in their area of expertise.
• Support generalist PS Capability demands as customer work requires.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

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

• Membership with a Professional organization relevant to your area of expertise
• Project Management experience
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal
• Comfortable presenting, in person, to audiences of 5-30 persons
• Certification relevant to a PS specialist capability area

Desirable

• Knowledge and Awareness of Canadian Armed Forces structure and practice
• Fluent in French
• Other practical area of specialty, such as finance, procurement, operations, performance, staffing in a government setting, or risk management

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