Project Manager - Land Development

Location: Waterloo, ON, Canada; Hybrid

Project Manager - Land Development

Strong communities don’t just happen—they’re built. They’re creatively imagined, collaboratively planned, and readied to face tomorrow with optimism. We’re driving the future of Community Development. Our experts lead their fields, collaborating on projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. We’re a place where you can apply your passion—and find endless opportunities to help make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable.

Your Opportunity

Our Waterloo office is looking for a Project Manager to join our Community Development team. As a Project Manager, you will perform a variety of tasks including project management, business development and growing our team of engineers, technicians and other specialists. The Project Manager is expected to win and/or be assigned projects that have complex features that will require the application of mature knowledge and industry experience. This ideal candidate will be capable of leading all aspects of a project from the business development (pursuit stage) through conceptual design, detailed design, agency approvals and implementation. As Project Manager you will be responsible for to ensure appropriate project team structure, resource efficiency and financial accountability.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing scope, budget, schedule and quality of deliverables associated with multiple large, multi-disciplinary projects of high complexity from due diligence to post construction stages.
• Leads and develops a team of engineers and technologists, providing mentorship to other staff. 
• Manages the design and delivery of civil engineering deliverables for land development projects, overseeing servicing, grading, drainage design, and multidisciplinary project coordination, ensuring cohesiveness and consistency between submission deliverables.
• Leads and provides mentorship through the development of a design using sketches, markups, and other visual formats for junior engineers/designers.
• Leads project meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, Clients, contractors, review/commenting agencies, subcontractors, and vendors.
• Leads the preparation and coordination of the project specifications and construction documents.
• Participates in constructability reviews.
• Conducts quality assurance and quality control on own projects and projects of peers.
• Assists in the development of new standards and specifications for the civil group. 
• Develops project scope, budgets, and design approach for all size projects. 
• Participates in and leads (when required) marketing efforts, and business development and strategic pursuits, including lead development, proposal preparation, presentations, relationship management and client surveys. 
• Develops and maintains positive and professional relationships and visibility with current and prospective clients, sub-consultants, competitor/teaming partners, and potential recruits. 
• Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.

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