Project Manager Job Details | Kinectrics

Kinectrics AES, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy and utility company in Toronto seeks a Project Manager to oversee the execution of various design and maintenance projects. The candidate should possess a minimum of 5 years of experience and a degree in engineering. This role offers significant career growth opportunities, a competitive compensation package, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion within the team.

Benefits

Competitive total compensation

Training and development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience in project management or technical role.
• Strong understanding of project financial management.
• Ability to communicate complex technical issues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day execution of various design and maintenance projects.
• Monitor cost and schedule adherence.
• Facilitate client discussions to resolve issues in a timely manner.

Skills

Customer orientation

Contract management

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Project management

Technical communication

Education

Four-year degree in engineering or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

SAP

Job description

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

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: 800 Kipling Avenue, Toronto, ON

Department: Inspection and Maintenance Systems (IMS)

Reports to: Section Manager – Reactor Tooling

Hours per week: 37.5 (overtime, field work and shift work may be required)

Number Required: 2

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.
• Competitive Compensation : We offer a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America.

If you are looking for an organization that is committed to your future growth development, then you’ve come to the right place.

Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact

• Reporting to the Reactor Tooling Section Manger, you will manage the day-to-day execution of various design, maintenance, and field execution projects.
• Monitor and report out on the cost and schedule adherence, including the preparation of various internal and external status reports, schedules, and plans.
• Provide direction to the Team Lead, Procurement Lead, and Technical Engineering Lead to drive project execution activities on time and on budget.
• Facilitate internal and client discussions to identify and resolve, or escalate when warranted, issues in a timely manner.
• Assist in the non-conformance reporting process, including raising and dispositioning non-conformance reports and corrective action requests.
• Oversee maintenance and testing activities and provide observation and coaching to staff.
• Ensure ongoing positive customer relationship and satisfaction through proactive engagement and timely communication with the client through robust project controls
• Manage small scale (1M$) projects, competing priorities and deadlines.
• Assist in actively marketing and selling remote inspection and maintenance tooling design, assembly, testing, and deployment services to win new revenue streams from existing and potentially new customers.
• Prepare quotations, change orders, and large complex proposals.
• Assist in the negotiation and administration of contracts, including estimates of costs, schedule, and resources required.
• Support tooling field deployment as an on-shift supervisor as required.
• Perform other duties as required.

What You Need to Succeed

Essential Competencies:

• Strong customer orientation and commitment to Kinectrics and Business Unit goals.
• Demonstrated skill in contract management and administration with positive track record of completing projects on budget and schedule in terms of client satisfaction.
• Demonstrated high level of initiative to propose and implement new ideas.
• Demonstrated ability to work in multi-disciplinary team situations with a variety of partners and diverse issues and roles.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple projects of varying complexity, scale, and technical disciplines.
• Strong oral and written communications, with ability to effectively communicate complex technical issues
• Proven skills with a variety of software programs including MS Office, and MS Project or P6.

Essential Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications:

• A four-year university education in engineering or equivalent is required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in project management or in a technical role with cost and schedule management responsibilities
• Experience or competency in project financial management, including experience with SAP
• Experience in managing design and build projects is considered an asset.
• Experience with interfacing with clients and managing client relationships.
• Practical experience in the design and development of sophisticated equipment and instrumentation for testing would be an asset.
• Knowledge of nuclear quality program and testing requirements
• Knowledge of nuclear quality assurance standards
• Strong understanding and commitment to HU principles with preference to nuclear station experience in HU culture preferred.
• Must have excellent communications, technical report writing and oral presentation skills.
• Ability to successfully obtain and maintain valid nuclear site security clearance(s)

Kinectrics Inc is strongly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and welcomes applications from all individuals. To learn more about our commitments please visit our diversity, equity and inclusion and indigenous relations pages.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a voluntary diversity survey. The collection of self-identification data is driven by our commitment to DE&I and ensures Kinectrics' continuous review and improvement of its programs. The information that you provide is strictly confidential and your responses will only be used for statistical purposes. Your responses do not affect your candidacy in any way.

Kinectrics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.