Project Management Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled Project Management Specialist to join our team. The successful candidate will provide project management services to support the delivery of routine to moderately complex infrastructure and environmental projects.

The incumbent acts as a technical specialist for our clients and may undertake research and conducts studies and assessments.

The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative but not all-inclusive:

• Research, prepare and present documentation required for long-term projects (e.g. approvals, statements of work, projects charters, budgets, policies and procedures)
• Complete project management from initiation to closure for infrastructure and environmental projects, including new construction, recapitalization and environmental assessment and remediation
• Support client approval processes by facilitating decision making within client organizations through the development of business case analysis, functional space programming and other documentation
• 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, within delegated signing authority
• Develop and maintain effective relationships within the organization, and with industry, clients and/or stakeholders
• Ensure quality standards are met, in line with corporate and client expectation

General and Specific Knowledge

• Best practices, methods, trends and legislation in real property, environmental and construction services
• Client 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

Our benefits package includes:

• 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 employee and family assistance program
• Deluxe travel benefit plans
• Comprehensive vacation and other paid leave plans

To begin a career with us, 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.

We are 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 your responsibility to ensure, you are able to obtain and maintain your required security level clearance to begin or continue your employment with us. Failure to obtain or maintain, the appropriate level of security clearance means either you will not receive a job offer, the conditional offer will be rendered null and void or your employment will be terminated with cause.

We value diversity and inclusion in our workplace and welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and members of the LGBTQ2+ community. We also welcome applications from those who are not Canadian citizens who are eligible to work in Canada and have at least 5 years of verifiable background information.