Project Manager - Cables and Transformers

Kinectrics; Toronto; On-site; CAD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total compensation package

Health benefits

Pension plan

Professional development reimbursemen

Job summary

Kinectrics seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex cable and transformer projects from a 800 Kipling Avenue base in Toronto. You will oversee scope, schedule, budget, and cross-functional teams, delivering high‑voltage, medium‑voltage, and low‑voltage systems with a focus on safety, quality, and client satisfaction.

The role offers a permanent, full‑time position with a starting salary of $120,000 annually and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex engineering projects.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams (engineering, technical, laboratory, field, operations, commercial, admin).
• Proven track record delivering projects on schedule and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management leadership for HV, MV and LV cable and transformer systems.
• Manage projects from inquiry to closeout, including proposals and change orders.
• Develop execution plans with scope, deliverables, schedule, budget and resource needs.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across engineering, laboratory, field and operations.
• Coordinate installation, commissioning, diagnostic testing and inspection activities.
• Maintain schedules, budgets and risk plans; implement corrective actions as needed.
• Communicate status and decisions with customers and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Scheduling

Budgeting

Risk management

Job description

Kinectrics is a wholly owned subsidiary of BWX Technologies focused on providing life cycle management services in the energy and utility sector. We develop innovative solutions for the global electricity and medical industries, helping empower a sustainable future. Trusted by clients worldwide, our employees provide expertise in engineering, testing, and inspection across a wide range of services. With offices worldwide and independent laboratories and testing facilities, we collaborate closely with clients to ensure utility assets perform safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their entire life cycle.

Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. That’s why we choose only the best and brightest to join us. To keep pace with the expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we aren’t looking to slow down. Join our diverse, supportive workplace for a rewarding career in the electricity industry.

Visit our website to learn more: www.kinectrics.com

The Opportunity

Position: Project Manager - Cables and Transformers

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Level : Senior

Location: 800 Kipling Avenue, Toronto, ON

Department: HVST

Hours per week: 37.5

Number Required: 1

Starting Salary $120,000 annual. Exact compensation may vary depending on the individual experience and qualifications of each candidate. Applicants with greater or less than the minimum qualifications for this posted opportunity may be considered for alternate opportunities.

What We Offer

At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver’s seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.

• Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
• Growth: To keep pace with Canada’s expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
• Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
• Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
• Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.

Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact

• Provide project management leadership for projects involving high voltage, medium voltage and low voltage cable and transformer systems.
• Manage projects from initial customer inquiry and proposal development through planning, execution, monitoring, reporting, invoicing and closeout.
• Develop project execution plans that define scope, deliverables, schedule, budget, resource requirements, procurement needs, quality requirements, safety expectations, risks, assumptions and responsibilities.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams consisting of engineering, technical, laboratory, field, operations, commercial and administrative personnel.
• Manage projects involving the inspection, testing, commissioning, maintenance, condition assessment, qualification, troubleshooting and engineering support of cable and transformer assets in laboratory and field environments.
• Work with engineering and technical personnel to coordinate installation support, commissioning, diagnostic testing, inspection, maintenance, repair, failure investigation and forensic analysis activities.
• Establish and maintain project schedules, budgets, forecasts and resource plans. Monitor performance, identify variances and implement corrective actions to protect project objectives, revenue and profitability.
• Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues and opportunities. Develop mitigation and contingency plans and escalat[e] significant matters as required.
• Manage project scope and document changes to customer requirements, technical assumptions, schedules, budgets and deliverables. Prepare and obtain approval for change orders where required.
• Serve as the primary project contact for assigned customers and communicate regularly regarding project status, technical activities, schedule, commercial matters, risks, issues and required decisions.
• Prepare and support quotations, proposals and tenders, including scope of work, execution methodology, assumptions, exclusions, schedules, resource requirements