Project Manager

The Technical Specialist, Project Management, is responsible for providing project management services to support the delivery of routine to moderately complex infrastructure and environmental projects.

• Research, prepare and present documentation required for long-term projects.
• Complete project management from initiation to closure for infrastructure and environmental projects.
• Support Client-Partner project approval processes by facilitating decision making within Client-Partner organizations.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications to ensure timely decision making.
• Participate in procurement planning and prepare tender documents.
• Coordinate consultant activities.
• Act as the representative of the project director or project manager.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships within DCC, and with industry, the Client-Partners and/or stakeholders.
• Ensure quality standards are met, in line with corporate and Client-Partner expectation.

Other Key Duties

• Prepare monthly reports (e.g. internal, Client-Partner).
• Support and/or lead business development activities.
• Manage risk.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Best practices, methods, trends and legislation in real property, environmental and construction services.
• Client-Partner project management policies and procedures.
• Treasury Board Secretariat policies and procedures.
• Project and risk management principles.

Formal Education and/or Certification(s) and Experience

• Minimum: college diploma in engineering, architecture or related field with four years' relevant experience, or the equivalent.
• Preferred: university degree in one of the above fields and/or additional training in project management.

• Public service pension.
• 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, health and dental premiums, and life, accidental death, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• $400 Wellness Allowance (e.g., gym membership).
• $1,500 for mental health services on top of regular $1,500 paramedical coverage.
• $750 Health Care Spending Account (for some medical expenses that aren't covered under provincial plans or our standard insurance plan).
• Telus Virtual Health Care.
• Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for a maximum of 37 weeks.
• $400 allowance every two years to support work-from-home options.
• Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program.
• Deluxe travel benefit plans.
• Comprehensive vacation and other paid leave plans.

To begin a career with Defence Construction Canada, you must be a Canadian Citizen or a permanent resident of Canada.

A minimum reliability security status clearance is required and some roles may require secret security status clearance.

DCC is responsible for the Personnel Security Clearance process.

Typically to be eligible for a Reliability clearance, you must have five years of verifiable background information and to be eligible for a Secret clearance, you must have 10 years of verifiable background information.

The process usually involves reference inquiries, verification of qualifications, criminal records checks, and credit checks (as required) and may require fingerprints.

For more information about obtaining a security clearance, please review the Standard on Security Screening.

The appropriate security clearance is a condition of employment and it is the candidate's or employee's responsibility to ensure they are able to obtain and maintain their required security level clearance to begin or continue their employment with DCC.

A thorough security clearance process will be applied to all candidates or employees considered for an appointment; this process includes inquiries, verifications and assessments regarding matters such as, but not limited to:

• criminal record checks
• reference checks
• previous employment
• open source checks
• credit/financial status