Project Manager, Design - Guelph, Canada - The City of Guelph

The City of Guelph

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Guelph, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About Our Organization:

When you join the City of Guelph, you join a team of 2000 full and part-time employees who deliver services the community relies on every day.

Together, we are bringing to life Guelph's vision of an inclusive, connected, and prosperous city where we look after each other and our environment.

As a regional top employer, the City of Guelph values its employees and offers competitive salaries, excellent benefit packages, opportunities for professional development, a healthy work-life balance, and many roles with flexible work options.

Our corporate values are integrity, service, inclusion, wellness, and learning.

Guelph is consistently ranked as one of the best places in Canada to live, work, and play—all good reasons to consider a career in this beautiful city.

Job Summary:

Your role:

Schedules and oversees projects to ensure efficient and costeffective delivery of capital projects.
Develop, maintain and implement project charters, project management plans, cost and schedule forecasts, risk management plans and other required documentation in compliance with the City's Project Management Office approved methodologies, tools and processes including developing and maintaining management plans for scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, communications, risk, procurement and stakeholder management.
Coordinates, directs and manages staff resources in the delivery of projects.
Performs contract administration duties including preparation of contract tender documents.
Coordinates project accounting including processing of payment certificates and invoices.
Manages consultants retained to provide engineering services to the City of Guelph.
Communicates and engages with stakeholders and public during the study, design and construction processes.
Liaise and negotiate with consultants, contractors and developers on engineering and related matters relative to contracts, agreements and standards, and maintains continued contact with the industry regarding standards and specifications for municipal construction.
Ensure compliance with all applicable federal and provincial regulations/legislation and City bylaws.
Participate on technical committees in the development of policy, review of practices for municipal construction.
Maintain professional knowledge in applicable areas and keep abreast of changes in jobrelated rules, statutes, laws and new business trends; recommend the implementation of changes; read and interpret professional literature; attend training programs, workshops and seminars as appropriate.
Build and maintain positive working relationships with coworkers, other civic employees and public using principles of good customer service.
Act as a technical resource to other departments and develop collaborative partnerships with agencies, utilities, adjacent municipalities, residents, property owners, consultants, developers and contractors on matters relating to the Infrastructure Services division
Evaluate contractor and consultant performance on capital projects.
Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Must be certified or eligible for certification as an Engineering Technologist by O.A.C.E.T.T.
Familiarity with the Project Management Institute best practices.
Knowledge of relevant legislation, guidelines, standards and specifications as it relates to municipal design and construction.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders.
Excellent customer service skills with the ability to resolve customer inquiries/complaints effectively.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to engage staff and work in a team environment.
Able to manage multiple and changing demands and priorities.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of staff, stakeholders and the general public, including preparing and delivering presentations
Knowledge of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

In keeping with our corporate value of Wellness,
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Rate:

$88, $111,125.50

How to apply:

The City of Guelph is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in the workplace.

We are therefore happy to accommodate any individual needs in keeping with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

If you require an accommodation in order to participate in the hiring process, please contact us to make your needs known in advance.

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