Conventional Signalling Delivery Director

Mace; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Mace in Toronto is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex projects from inception through delivery. You’ll oversee timeframes, budgets, and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring alignment with client expectations and project promises.

The role offers hybrid working options in Canada, requires 10+ years of PM experience, strong budget control and risk management, and a proven ability to drive collaboration across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project management.
• Budgetary oversight expertise.
• Coordinating activities with stakeholders and teams.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies.
• Analytical skills across estimating, scheduling, procurement, and contracts.
• Effective risk identification and mitigation.
• Experience with bidding and business development.
• Financial controls and fee proposal familiarity.
• Knowledge of HSE rules and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project timeframes and budgets, and highlight risks, challenges and mitigations.
• Oversee project management for external clients from inception to post-completion.
• Ensure delivery aligns with stakeholders’ expectations and communicate strategies to the team.
• Lead client, consultant, and contractor teams to meet milestones.
• Actively drives collaboration between all parties.
• Produce design and authorities programmes integrated with procurement and delivery programme.
• Manage sequencing and production of staging plans.

Skills

Project management

Budget oversight

Stakeholder coordination

Risk management

PM methodologies

Problem solving

Business development

Financial controls

HSE compliance

Contract administration

Job description

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities, and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project deliveryconsultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Our Values

Safety first -

Going home safe and well

Client focus -

Deliver on our promise

Integrity -

Always do the right thing

Create opportunity -

for our people to excel

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Oversees project timeframes and project budgets, and ensures budgets are managed diligently and highlights any risks, challenges and mitigations.
• On behalf of external/third-party clients oversee the project management of the project/s on an individual and team basis from inception to post-completion.
• Ensures the successful delivery of the project in line with all stakeholders’ expectations communicating strategies to the wider client/ consultant/contractor team.
• Oversees management of the client and consultant team and all external/project stakeholders to ensure effective completion of the project in line with client expectations.
• Actively drives collaboration between all parties.
• Produces design and authorities programme to be integrated with procurement and delivery programme.
• Manages the timely delivery to programme from project inception/brief, through design development and planning, contractor procurement and construction phase in accordance with the overall delivery program and agreed project milestones.
• Manages the timely sequencing/methodology and production of staging plans.
• Performs two to five of the following non-project related roles; such as business reporting, pipeline management, bidding, business development, resourcing, commercial strategy & maximising our commercial position, managing Mace contract, contract extensions, cross-selling, invoicing, debt collection and P&L responsibility and other as directed by the Senior Leadership Team.
• Aligns to strategy to place construction to production, digital and data, service excellence, quality, assurance and sustainability at the heart of our delivery.
• Partners with multiple internal and external stakeholders, working in collaboration to (implement strategy/programmes/initiatives).
• Manages, influences & negotiates with key senior external stakeholders (up to c-suite).
• Delivers continuous improvements in processes through application of best practices and lessons learned.
• Manages a number of Senior Managers, Managers and Assistant Managers.
• Works collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition, and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

You’ll Need To Have

• 10+ years of experience in project management, managing small to medium/large sized projects.
• Developing budgetary oversight expertise.
• Developing proficiency in coordinating activities and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Proven understanding of project management methodologies and practices.
• Proven problem solving and analytical skills across estimating, scheduling, contracts administration, procurement, financial controls and reporting for planning, estimating, contract administration and procurement issues for various procedural, construction and design activities.
• Ensure project risks are effectively identified, mitigated and managed, including the proactive management of the early warning process.
• Developing bidding, business development and/or account growth capabilities.
• Strong commercial and financial skills and an ability to build up fee proposals and oversee project workbooks.
• Proficient knowledge and expertise in specific industry of project/role.
• Relevant technical qualification/certification for project portfolio/s.
• Sound technical expertise in Health and Safety Executive (HSE) (or local equivalent) rules and regulations relevant to project portfolio.
• Developing a reputation across the relevant sector / market and operating at the highest level of compliance.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organization.

We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable with-in the role.