Senior Project Manager

Company Description

ABOUT:

A subsidiary of Veolia group, Veolia North America (VNA) offers a full spectrum of water, waste and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across the continent. Please visit our website www.veolianorthamerica.com

Job Description

Targeted Annual Pay: $150,000.00

BENEFITS

Veolia's comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental and vision insurance. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement.  Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.

POSITION PURPOSE: The Senior Project Manager must be a proven results oriented individual with a professional track record in providing profitable professional services coupled with a high level of client satisfaction. The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, fast paced environment. This position will combine strong leadership, personal communication, and technical skills to commission Hyperscale, Enterprise, and Collocation Data Centers.  

PRIMARY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Collaborate closely with a team of qualified professional and degreed engineers
2. Manage a team of subcontractors and client vendors on a client project by project basis.
3. Set project assignments and schedules.
4. Be a technical subject matter expert for complex mission critical projects.
5. Develop procedures, methods and testing scripts for clients, projects, internally and externally for complex power, hydraulic and cooling systems for Data Centers, Financial Institutions and Power plants.
6. Lead client meetings, schedules, issue resolutions, deficiency resolutions for projects.
7. Craft proposals for client RFPs and project pricing requests.
8. Assist with Veolia departmental budgets, KPI’s, and financial planning.
9. Coordinate commissioning related documentation of contractors, sub-contractors, client representatives, 3rd party vendors and check for correctness and accuracy.
10. Back check and ultimately account for the work of subcontractors on client projects.
11. Any other related tasks. 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS / WORK ENVIRONMENT    

Permanent and full-time position, from Monday to Friday, day schedules.

The ideal candidate will work remotely from Toronto, Montreal, and/or Calgary in Canada, with required travel.

• Roles require extensive local, national, and occasional international travel. Positions may require employees to be away from home on assignments between an average of 50% and up to 80% annually. Typically, Mondays and Fridays are designated travel days with Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays as on site work days. Veolia allows employees to travel back on Fridays so they can spend their weekends at home, unless specifically dictated by work requirements.
• Roles may occasionally require work to be conducted outside of normal business hours to accommodate maintenance windows or weekends typical of mission critical project schedules.
• Working environment requires the employee to be in high energy areas such as central plants, switchgear rooms and power transmission areas typical of Mission Critical environments such as Power Generation Plants and Data Centers.

Qualifications

Education / Experience / Background

• Minimum 5 years of Electrical/Mechanical industry knowledge.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred but based on experience accepting Associate degree from relevant technical programs.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience will also be considered.
• Demonstrated experience in diagnosing and solving construction and operational problems, preferred 5 to 10 years’ experience in commissioning of complex installations.
• Demonstrated experience managing design, energy services and commissioning projects and project resources to a predetermined scope, fee and schedule.
• Demonstrated knowledge of NETA and other building codes and construction industry standards, such as ASHRAE and LEED.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Thorough understanding o