Senior Project Manager - Water Services

CDM Smith; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our expanding Ontario team in Markham. The successful candidate will manage water and wastewater projects, liaise with clients, and contribute to business growth. This role requires strong project management skills and a commitment to building relationships within the industry.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing water and wastewater projects.
• Familiarity with multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Participation in professional societies is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage major water and wastewater projects, ensuring quality, scope, and budget adherence.
• Contribute to business development activities and relationship building with municipal clients.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineering staff.

Skills

Project Management

Client Liaison

Budget Management

Technical Guidance

Job description

For 75 years, CDM Smith Inc. has provided innovative solutions combined with responsive, professional service to clients in the water, environment, energy, facilities, and transportation industries. As an employee-owned corporation with more than $1.3 billion (U.S.) in annual revenues and a multidiscipline staff of 5,500 in over 130 offices worldwide, CDM Smith maintains the size, stability, and resources necessary to successfully deliver a wide range of projects.

Since 2015, CDM Smith in Canada has had rapidly growing water business in Vancouver, British Columbia. With the recently opening of the Markham, Ontario office, CDM Smith is committed to significant local growth to meet the growing demand of clients in the GTA and Ontario for water project planning, design and construction management services.

CDM Smith currently has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager in our growing Markham office. In that position, you will work closely with our Client Services Lead on business development activities to grow the Ontario water business, including client liaison and proposal preparation, will be project manager for design and construction projects for water and wastewater treatment and biosolids facilities, and pumping and conveyance infrastructure, and will contribute to the rapid growth of our Ontario team.

As a member of the Markham team, you will contribute to CDM Smith's mission by :

• Serving as Project Manager on major water and wastewater projects in the GTA and other municipalities in Ontario, acting as primary contact with the client project manager, and being responsible for project scope, schedule, budget and quality management, as well as management of multi-disciplinary design team members.
• Collaborating with the Ontario Client Service Leader and corporate sales and marketing team members for proposal preparation and client liaison to promote business development, reputation and relationships with municipal clients for water sector work in the GTA and Ontario
• Participating in professional societies relevant to the industry.
• Providing technical guidance, senior leadership, and mentoring engineering staff to enhance our water services capabilities in Ontario
• Providing technical support, project management support or quality management services for projects in Ontario or for other CDM Smith offices in North America.
• Building and maintaining positive working relationships with key client decision makers.
• Participating and contributing to staff hiring to enhance growth in the Markham office.

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