Emergency Response Project Manager

at  QM Environmental

Project Managers are responsible for executing projects that meet or exceed operational excellence, company financial targets, on time and within budget. Project Managers are also responsible for:

• Managing client relationships, ensuring projects meet or exceed key performance indicators, and business development in both identifying potential works and estimating and working through the bid process
• Overseeing on-site project resources, both human and capital
• Ensuring that projects meet or exceed QM’s Health and Safety Policies and Programs.
• Cost estimating and bid proposal execution

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Project Management and business development in interacting with clients
• At least 5 years with the direct responsibility for all resource allocation and management responsibilities and with the administration of prime contracts, subcontracts, and contract changes.
• Experience in preparing cost estimates and proposals
• Experienced reviewing environmental site assessment reports for the purposes of understanding the contamination conditions of a property and how this relates to the implementation of a remediation solution.
• Understanding and evaluating remedial options with respect to various technical, schedule, budget, regulatory, and financial constraints and for the purposes of guiding a design-build remediation process, or for proposing alternatives in a design-bid-build procurement
• Experienced in overseeing programs at both national and regional levels (preffered).

Education, Certifications

• Graduate from both a secondary and a post-secondary institution
• Graduate from a university program related to earth sciences or engineering (preferred)
• Certified Engineering Technologist or Professional Engineer would be an asset
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation is an asset

KNOWLEDGE

• Of environmental legislation, standards, and guidelines related to contaminated sites
• Of the Project Management Body of Knowledge published by the Project Management Institute
• Of the engineering design, tender, and construction management processes and related contractual conditions for a variety of remediation technologies

ABILITIES

• To analyze and evaluate complex contaminated sites problems and to plan and lead multi-disciplinary teams of technical and field operations personnel and external consultants to execute remediation solutions
• To prepare detailed ‘bottom-up’ construction cost estimates for the purposes of responding to specific tender requests and in preparing analogous or ‘top-down’ estimates for budgetary purposes
• To understand contracts; communicate project risks effectively with clients and stakeholders and to negotiate contract changes
• To work effectively with various computer software applications such as spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel or similar), project management and scheduling (Microsoft Project or similar), financial accounting (Explorer Contract Manager or similar)

Project Managers are responsible for executing projects that meet or exceed operational excellence, company financial targets, on time and within budget. Project Managers are also responsible for:

• Managing client relationships, ensuring projects meet or exceed key performance indicators, and business development in both identifying potential works and estimating and working through the bid process
• Overseeing on-site project resources, both human and capital
• Ensuring that projects meet or exceed QM’s Health and Safety Policies and Programs.
• Cost estimating and bid proposal executio