Civil Project Manager

Fuze HR Solutions; Oakville; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuze HR Solutions is seeking a Project Manager to provide leadership and contract administration for complex construction projects in Ontario. The role ensures safety, schedule adherence, and budget alignment while coordinating with clients, consultants, subcontractors, and suppliers.

You will manage project plans, budgets, procurement, and risk, while promoting quality and regulatory compliance across all disciplines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline.
• 8–10 years of progressive construction experience; leadership or management exposure.
• Experience leading construction projects and coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong health, safety, and environmental knowledge and practices.
• Knowledge of materials, methods, codes, contract administration, and quality management.
• Understanding of budgeting, scheduling, forecasting, procurement, and cost control.
• Ability to identify, assess, and manage project risks and opportunities.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall contract administration, leadership, and technical guidance for construction projects.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, forecasts, and performance tracking.
• Ensure projects meet designs, budgets, resources, quality, and schedules.
• Monitor performance and report on safety, costs, forecasts, and progress.
• Coordinate design, procurement, subcontractor management, and stakeholder relations.
• Identify risks and opportunities and implement mitigation plans.
• Oversee closeout activities, documentation, turnover, and warranty requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Contract administration

Communication

Problem solving

Time management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Office

Construction PM software

Job description

The Project Manager is responsible for providing overall leadership, contract administration, technical expertise, and operational oversight for construction projects. This role ensures projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with contract requirements, design documents, quality standards, and client expectations.

The Project Manager works closely with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and internal project teams to coordinate project activities, manage risks and opportunities, resolve issues, and achieve successful project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall contract administration, technical expertise, and leadership for assigned construction projects.
• Develop, implement, and maintain project safety plans while promoting a strong health and safety culture.
• Ensure projects are constructed in accordance with approved designs, budgets, resources, quality requirements, and schedules.
• Monitor project performance and provide regular reporting on safety, costs, forecasts, schedules, and overall progress.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, forecasts, and performance tracking systems.
• Review project requirements and identify opportunities for value engineering related to functionality, cost, constructability, and schedule.
• Manage the procurement and administration of subcontracts, major purchase orders, and progress payments.
• Monitor subcontractor and supplier performance, progress, quality, costs, and schedule commitments.
• Interpret, communicate, and enforce contract requirements, drawings, specifications, and other project documentation.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and other key stakeholders.
• Communicate project status, challenges, changes, and opportunities to appropriate stakeholders.
• Manage stakeholder expectations through clear, timely, and professional communication.
• Coordinate project closeout activities, including documentation, deficiencies, commissioning, turnover, and warranty requirements.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to project team members.
• Promote quality management and ensure project activities comply with applicable standards, specifications, codes, and regulatory requirements.

Design-Build Responsibilities

Where applicable to design-build projects:

• Monitor design progress and ensure compliance with project requirements, quality standards, coordination requirements, constructability, and scheduled deliverables.
• Coordinate with design consultants and project stakeholders to address design-related issues and potential impacts to cost and schedule.
• Support the development and implementation of design management and design quality plans.
• Conduct or coordinate periodic design and quality reviews to ensure compliance with project requirements.
• Identify potential design risks, coordination issues, and opportunities and communicate them to the project team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
• 8–10 years of progressive construction experience, preferably with experience in a project leadership or management capacity.
• Demonstrated experience leading construction projects and coordinating multidisciplinary project teams.
• Strong understanding of health, safety, and environmental principles, legislation, and best practices.
• In-depth knowledge of construction materials, methods, specifications, building codes, contract administration, and quality management practices.
• Strong understanding of project budgeting, scheduling, forecasting, procurement, and cost control.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, assess, and manage project risks and opportunities.
• Strong planning, organizational, problem-solving, and time-management skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and construction project management and scheduling software.
• Strong aptitude for adopting new technologies, systems, and project management tools.

Core Competencies

• Project leadership and management
• Contract administration
• Construction planning and scheduling
• Budgeting and cost control
• Risk and opportunity management
• Health and safety leadership
• Quality management
• Procurement and subcontractor management
• Client and stakeholder relations
• Design coordination and constructability
• Problem solving and decision making
• Team leadership and mentoring

Fuze HR Solutions is committed to building a diverse, accessible, and equitable workforce. Our approach is twofold. Both internal, where we focus on creating a diverse and inclusive environment for our employees, and external, where we source and recruit from the most diverse candidate pools. Our teams are educated on current best practices at attracting, retaining, and working with the most talented and diverse candidates.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to accommodating every candidate and encourage those who identify as a member of a visible minority group, or a person with a disability and requiring specific accommodations, to apply.

For all questions, comments and feedback on our diversity and inclusion programs and policies or to request information relating to accommodation measures.