Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We also develop custom, turnkey solutions to help reach the desired outcomes. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal.

WE BUILD FOR LIFE.

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork and we are committed to ensuring that our teams have everything they need to succeed. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do and, as a result, our award-winning safety culture has a record that’s well above industry standards.
At Modern Niagara, you will work alongside values-driven, safety-conscious, and high-impact teams in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Here, your knowledge, skills, and excellent service will help ensure that the buildings that make up Canada’s infrastructure fulfill the needs they were set out to meet.
Modern Niagara is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and is a recipient of SMACNA‘s Safety Excellence Award Program (SSEAP) – Canada and the Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) Magazine’s Gold Winner for Canada’s Safest Employers Award in the Building and Construction category and Excellence Winner for Canada’s Best Health + Safety Culture Award as well as Canada’s Best Health + Safety Leader Award.
We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Project Manager to manage multiple projects in the Ottawa, ON area!
The mission of a Project Manager is to manage the budget, schedule and work closely with the foremen, subcontractors, and vendors to deliver a successful project. One of the key success factors is to assist Project Delivery teams with successfully completing projects within the planning process. The Project Manager focuses on reaching the overall financial goals of their projects, in collaboration with the Operations Team.
The Project Manager role encompasses a wide range of duties which include but are not necessarily limited to the following: budgets, managing labour, purchasing, administration, cost control, supplier and subcontractor coordination, communication, scheduling, pricing of change orders, financial management of projects, establishing and managing client relationships. Project Managers are viewed as the project leads and have a direct line of communication with General Contractors and owners; the expectation is to promote all faculties of Modern Niagara (specifically Services) to clients for the complete building life annual cycle.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Post-Secondary degree in construction management, Mechanical engineering, or equivalent experience in the field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience working as a Mechanical Project Manager in construction required.
• Experience in reading and interpreting mechanical construction drawings and documents.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee manufacturing project lifecycles, from initial planning through to execution and completion.
• Computer literate in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) and computerized scheduling packages.
• Demonstrates the ability to plan and manage a project schedule.
• Knowledge of construction costs and budgets.
• Understanding of all facets of the construction process.
• Knowledge of basic accounting principles is an asset.
• Ability to work in an office and field environment with a high degree of interaction between management, technical, and maintenance personnel.
  We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
  At Modern Niagara, we recognize the value of fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and are committed to eliminating barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, and new immigrants) in the construction industry. Our DEI vision is to build an organization where everyone has access to the same opportunities, experience equitable outcomes, and can thrive and reach their full potential.
  We value the diversity of the people we hire and serve. Modern Niagara is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise us so that suitable accommodations can be made. We can be reached at careers@modernniagara.com
  Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
  Pay: From $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• On-site parking

Application question(s):

• The successful candidate must be eligible to obtain Security Clearance through Public Works. Please confirm if you currently hold or qualify for Reliability Clearance
• What are your salary expectations?
• Are you willing/able to work on site or in office? (At 165 Sparks St. Ottawa, ON K1P 5B9)
• Are you eligible to work in Canada?

Work Location: In perso

• Responsible for building the budget, procuring equipment and subcontractors while billing and collecting funds for their respective projects in line with the KPI targets as determined by management on a quarterly basis.
• Participate in estimating turnover meetings, preconstruction meetings, and post-construction meetings.
• Complete monthly financial forecasting reports and participate in project status review meetings.
• Attends client and construction meetings as required and disseminates the information to work force, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Manage and coordinate the equipment and systems commissioning process.
• Contributing as necessary to the pre-construction process by reviewing contracts and determining project scope, planning, and estimating before execution.
• Maintaining safety standards in all aspects of each project.
• Preparation and monthly update of the work in progress (WIP) forecast sheets.
• Attends job site progress walks and is aware of project construction status.
• Maintain safety standards with respect to their projects.
• Creates purchase orders for suppliers and subcontractors.
• Breaks out labour budget and reviews break out with Foremen.
• Reviews Foreman labour plan with budget and input.
• Communicates and confers with Foreman on the labour progress and makes financial judgment calls in monthly review on final labour hours.