Project Coordinator, Corporate Real Estate and - Montréal, Canada - WSP

WSP
WSP
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Montréal, Canada

4 weeks ago

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Description

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe.

In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

The excellence we bring to our work and to our workplace has been recognized far and wide.

We are among the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies two years in a row, one of the Top 100 Sustainable Companies in the World (and among the Top 10 in Canada), and we earned Platinum Elite Recognition through our participation in more than half of Canada's Top 100 Infrastructure Projects.


At
WSP:

  • We value our people and our reputation
  • We are locally dedicated with international scale
  • We are future focused and challenge the status quo
  • We foster collaboration in everything we do
  • We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

MONTREAL, OTTAWA, TORONTO OR ANY MAJOR CITY IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC AND NEW-BRUNSWICK:


The Opportunity:


WSP currently has a new opportunity for a Corporate Real Estate Project Coordinator to join our team. We have a large portfolio across Canada and are hoping to add an enthusiastic, self driven individual ready to join a dynamic team and work on a fast-paced, demanding environment where your efforts will contribute to the success of one of Canada's leading consulting firms.


Why WSP?:


  • We value and are committed to upholding a culture of
    Inclusion and
    Belonging:
  • Our
    Flexible Work Policy
  • we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
  • Our
    Hybrid Work Policy:
- a combination of in-person and remote working, enables us to purposefully think of how we work, who we need to work with, and where the work should be done.

  • A
    Canadian success story we're
    proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
-
Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
-
Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to
your ideas and trying
new things.

  • A phenomenal
    collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely
    good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.

#WeAre
WSP

A day in the life:


  • Support and prepare business cases for Corporate Real Estate (CRE) projects related to office consolidations, relocations, or renovations as well as complex geotechnical labs and storage facilities.
To provide clarity about the type of CRE projects the person in this role will we coordinating, here is typical example:

Office Consolidation, Relocations or Renovations:

when there are several offices in the same city or in adjacent cities within reasonable distance, we start by analysing staff home postal codes to determine the office that would make the most sense in terms of proximity to most employees, with that data we allocate people to a certain office and determine the capacity and square footage needed in that specific location.

The size and capacity of the office then serves as a starting point to start the real estate market search done by an external broker who will present the available options and key information.

At this point we start the preparation of preliminary test fits and financial analysis which includes not only the occupancy costs but also the capex and opex assumptions to execute the project.

Each project is different in the sense that sometimes the only costs we'd need to incur are move related ones but in other cases a light, medium or full renovation is needed.

Understanding the existing conditions and end user needs are key to prepare capex and opex estimates as well as working closely with other teams such as IT and HSE to make sure their considerations are included in the budget and planning.

In most cases, several options are prepared and compared prior to making a recommendation to executives.

Once the recommended option is identified, a business case is prepared to present for formal approval to Regional and/or Global executives.

Once the project is approved, we'd request fee proposals to the team of consultants (Architects, De
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