Senior Project Manager

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the South Project Delivery Director within the Learning Facilities Branch, the Senior Project Manager has the overall responsibility and accountability for the delivery of safe, functional, high-quality cost effective, sustainable facilities that meet Alberta Education and school jurisdiction program delivery needs.  This position is the “go-to” person for all issues/challenges related to the capital projects they manage and ensures projects are delivered on time, budget, and scope. The projects range in size (from $1 million to over $100+ million) and complexity from a modular addition to a complex high school with community partnership components.

The Senior Project Manager works closely with Infrastructure Project Managers and Project Co-ordinators, client representatives from Alberta Education, school jurisdictions and municipality representatives throughout all aspects of a project, from inception to the end of warranty period. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and warranty management of approved learning facility projects align with Infrastructure and Alberta Education requirements.

The primary responsibilities for the Senior Project Manager include, but are not limited to leading and managing learning facility projects by ensuring:

• All aspects of execution, control, monitoring and closure for assigned capital project(s) are fully implemented.
• Project scope is met, accurately reflecting Alberta Education and the school jurisdiction’s requirements and the infrastructure that will be required to support these requirements.
• The Alberta and National Building Codes, as well as Infrastructure’s technical standards are utilized as key resources for scope documentation.
• The project is well organized and structured for communication and decision making. A complete and accurate list of resources required for project planning, design and implementation is established, and the project teams are organized for working groups, steering groups, and potentially deputy minister’s committees.
• The construction team is selected either through a public tender process, or within the guidelines established by the ministry.  The Senior Project Manager monitors construction to ensure that the facility meets the requirements of the contract documents.
• All project expenditures, contractual commitments, and contract changes, are well documented, controlled and approved within established guidelines.
• Proactively identifying and communicating project risks or issues to the Director in a timely manner, ensuring alignment on mitigation strategies.

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APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

• Creative Problem Solving: Works in open teams to share ideas and process issues.
• Agility: Proactively incorporates change into processes.
• Develop Networks: Makes working with a wide range of parties an imperative.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Involves a wide group of stakeholders when working on outcomes.

Qualifications

Required:

• University graduation in Architecture, Engineering or related discipline.
• Six years of directly related experience.

Equivalency: Related experience or education (e.g. related diploma) may be considered as an equivalency on a one-for-one basis.

Assets:

• Construction Contract Administrator Certification or Project Management Certification.
• Extensive project management experience with the delivery (planning, design, construction, and commissioning) of building capital projects.
• Contract and commercial management experience.
• Dispute resolution experience.
• Experience managing interdisciplinary teams and resources, and a diverse portfolio of building projects.
• Project scheduling, budgeting and cashflow forecasting.
  
  

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 
Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

This position is a Permanent, full-time role with the standard weekly work hours of 36.25, Monday to Friday (8:15 am – 4:30 pm).

Location: Calgary AB.

Required Travel: 25 – 50%.

An onsite written assessment will be administered along with interviews. 

Applicants are advised to provide a cover letter and resume summarizing information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies.  

Pre-Employment Checks will be completed to assess the candidate’s suitability for a role. These checks may include (but are not limited to): references, criminal record check, academic verification, etc.

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - https://www.mepp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.