Senior Project Manager

SNC-Lavalin; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis seeks a Senior Project Manager for their Mississauga office. You’ll oversee critical project stages in the CANDU MONARK program, ensuring quality, safety, and compliance. This role demands a minimum of 10 years nuclear industry experience, strong project management, and negotiation skills, alongside a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Flexible benefits

Employee share plan

Defined contribution pension plan

Learning and development opportunities

Health and safety-focused environment

Qualifications

• 10+ years nuclear industry experience managing multidisciplinary projects.
• 5+ years of contract management experience.
• Familiarity with CANDU technology design preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver project scope for the CANDU MONARK program.
• Negotiate subcontract agreements and manage budgets.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and quality standards.

Skills

Project Management

Negotiation

Communication

Risk Management

Education

Degree in Engineering or Science

Professional Project Management Qualification

Job description

Job Description

Senior Project Manager

AtkinsRéalis is one of Canada's largest private sector nuclear engineering groups. We have been providing a wide range of services to the nuclear industry in Canada and around the world since for more than 60 years. We are proud to be the steward of Canadian CANDU nuclear technology.

Location – Mississauga, ON

Your role within the team:

• Reporting to the Program Director, the Senior Project Manager shall be accountable for the delivery of discrete portions of key scope. Staff will be matrixed into Senior Project Manager’s teams from throughout the program from functional teams that play a part in the delivery of these key scopes.
• Responsible for the successful delivery of the assigned scope throughout all stages of the Preliminary Design phase of the CANDU MONARK program.
• Ensures the safe delivery of the assigned scope while meeting quality standards, as well as cost and schedule requirements.
• Negotiate subcontract agreements, ensuring terms and conditions are favorable and compliant.
• Track subcontractor progress and performance, ensuring they meet program standards and deadlines.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with subcontractor activities.
• Ensure all subcontractors adhere to relevant regulations and company policies.
• Keep detailed records of subcontractor agreements, performance metrics, and compliance reports.
• Act as the primary point of contact between subcontractors and the program team.
• Ensure subcontractor activities are well-coordinated with the overall program plan.
• Manage budgets related to subcontractor activities, ensuring cost-effectiveness.
• Arrange timely payments to subcontractors based on performance and milestones.
• Lead initiatives to improve subcontract management processes and efficiency.
• Liaise and maintain collaborative relationships with key stakeholders.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Why choose AtkinsRéalis as an employer?

Because we offer:

• The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
• An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
• A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
• A work environment focused on health and safety.

The ideal candidate:

• Degree qualified in an Engineering or Science based discipline, and/or hold a professional Project or Program Management related qualification.
• Minimum 10 years of nuclear industry experience managing multidisciplinary projects.
• Minimum 5 years of contract management experience.
• Demonstrated experience in organizing and leading a technical team to high performance in a project-centric environment.
• Strong background CANDU technology design.
• Extensive knowledge of nuclear project work, project management, estimating and employee relations required.
• Excellent organizational, communication and customer relationship skills. A critical skill required for this position is the ability to clearly articulate an issue, the impact, and the steps to resolve.
• Negotiation and dispute resolution skills.
• Demonstrated oral and written communication skills.
• Strongly preferred candidate with familiarity with CANDU sites.
• Must also have or be able to hold Nuclear Energy Worker (NEW) status.
• Must have the ability to handle all matters in a confidential and professional manner.
• Accountable for fiscal performance of assigned scopes/budgets. This includes developing creative solutions to reduce costs while maintaining quality and schedule.
• Travel as necessary.

Are you up for this challenge? Apply today and join our team to help engineer a Better Future for our Planet and its People.

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At AtkinsRéalis , we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.