Utility Shaft & Hoist Upgrade Project Manager - Mining & Metals

Company Description

Bantrel is proud to be a leading provider of Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Construction Management (EPC / EPCM) services in Canada.

For 40 years we have delivered end-to-end solutions for some of Canada’s most challenging and complex energy, mining, infrastructure and nuclear projects, with an unrelenting focus on safety and quality. Bantrel performs design and procurement services from our primary Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto office locations and delivers construction management and self-perform construction services at various Client sites across Canada.

We operate independently but leverage the global expertise of and provide resources to our affiliate Bechtel Corporation, one of the largest EPC companies in the world, and remain Canadian focused including through our other shareholder, McCaig Investments, a respected local family group of businesses and deep community supporter.  Our private ownership provides long-term business planning and strategic decision horizons supported by a strong financial position.

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Job Description

We are seeking a Deputy Project Manager based in Carlsbad, New Mexico to support the management and operations of the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in New Mexico.  The nation’s only operating deep geologic repository for defense-related transuranic waste, WIPP is a critical link in the U.S (ULSD SPEC) mission to properly dispose of legacy waste from nuclear weapons production and nuclear defense activities.

The Deputy Project Manager will report to the Capital Assets Manager, responsible for managing capital asset projects to recover baseline schedules. Lead infrastructure planning, drive safety, quality, continuous improvement and cost and schedule efficiency. Accountable for delivery of line-item capital asset, infrastructure, and general projects for line-item capital projects, safety significant confinement ventilation system project, utility shaft project, hoisting capability project, infrastructure projects, general plant projects, major items of equipment, and major maintenance and repair projects. 

In this full-time permanent role, you will be a champion of diversity & inclusion.

Duties & Responsibilities include:

• The project manager is responsible for overall project execution of its projects ensuring that the project is delivered within the standards of safety, quality, contract requirements. 

• Ensures all team members have a strong understanding of project safety requirements, construction scope, schedule, quality and budget requirements. 

• Provides leadership for achieving project success through guiding and motivating the project team to do the right things for success.  

• Implements project procedures in the execution of the project. 

• Helps drive the company environmental health and safety programs at the project level, reinforcing a safety-oriented approach to work. 

• Monitor the technical requirements of the work, including quality control/assurance. 

• Monitor implementation of the contractor’s quality program(s). 

• Set clear expectations and consequences utilizing the performance-based leadership model. 

• Demonstrated leadership qualities, skill in supervision. Leads by example. 

• Review project execution strategies and engineering plans. 

• Participate in and concur with the development of project engineering budgets. 

• Provide technical / expert support to project teams and ensure technical quality. 

• Provide active oversight of project work; nurture a culture of creativity, innovation, empowerment, and TIC reduction. 

• Directs construction engineering activities of the assigned construction engineering staff. 

• Coordinates subcontract activities to ensure material, equipment and workmanship comply with design plans and specifications. 

• Implements controls over variables affecting job progress to ensure engineering and procurement provide timely delivery of drawings, materials and equipment and that other corporate service department are fully utilized.