Senior Project Manager

at  Vista Projects Limited

WHAT VISTA DOES

Vista Projects undertakes challenging industrial engineering projects across Canada and the US in a wide variety of business sectors that include Energy Transition, Specialty Chemicals, Power Generation, as well as the full range of Oil and Gas projects. Vista is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.

WHAT YOU WOULD DO IN THIS ROLE

The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for managing the overall execution for an assigned project, including budgeting and scheduling. Project management activities include estimation, planning/scheduling, change management, identification and mitigation of risks, progress reporting, oversight of procurement activities, and coordination with various disciplines. The PM must understand the overall direction, priority and schedules to execute the project and work with various discipline leads to deliver successful solutions to the client. Project Managers at Vista are required to be informed about the details of the scope being executed, in order to utilize their experience to provide specific guidance to team members.

• Managing project budgets and project staffing for project delivery within cost
• Managing project schedules for project delivery within timelines
• Working with Engineering Discipline Managers and representative project Responsible Engineers to ensuring the quality of drawings, models and work products
• Overseeing planning and development of construction work packages (CWPs), including bills of materials, isometrics, scope, layout, instrumentation lists and specialty items lists
• Coordinating aspects of change management and ensuring its effective implementation: trends, scope changes, design change notices (DCN) and field change notice (FCN), etc.
• Managing action items to ensure they are completed on schedule
• Creation of and stewarding to project risk management plans; including formal risk reviews and ongoing risk mitigation
• Contributing to and monitoring project KPIs, earned value and controls reporting
• Understanding the interfaces between procurement and non-procurement disciplines and ensuring appropriate procurement processes and procedures are followed
• Developing and managing vendor/contractor relationships
• Reviewing and evaluating standard procurement documents including bid lists, requests for quotation / proposal and commercial bid evaluations
• Performing other duties as requested

ONLY CANDIDATES MEETING THESE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10-25 years of progressive engineering experience, with a minimum of 5 years of independent management of project delivery
• Technical competency in a minimum of one engineering field (Process, Civil/Structural, Mechanical, Piping, Instrumentation/Controls, Electrical, etc.)
• Detailed knowledge of consulting engineering & procurement (EP) processes and workflows
• Ability to lead a multidisciplinary team
• Proven experience in relationship management
• Ability to influence and negotiate
• Experienced in conflict management
• P.Eng. designation
• Ability to work from Vista’s home office location (Calgary).