Technical Specialist, Project Management
- Courtenay, BC Comox, BC
- Permanent
- Full-time
The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative but not all-inclusive:
Primary
- Research, prepare and present documentation required for long-term projects (e.g. approvals, statements of work, projects charters, budgets, policies and procedures)
- Complete project management from initiation to closure for infrastructure and environmental projects, including new construction, recapitalization and environmental assessment and remediation
- Support Client-Partner project approval processes by facilitating decision making within Client-Partner organizations through the development of business case analysis, functional space programming and other documentation
- Coordinate stakeholder communications to ensure timely decision making
- Participate in procurement planning and prepare tender documents
- Coordinate consultant activities
- Act as the representative of the project director or project manager, within DCC delegated signing authority
- Develop and maintain effective relationships within DCC, and with industry, the Client-Partners and/or stakeholders
- Ensure quality standards are met, in line with corporate and Client-Partner expectation
- Prepare monthly reports (e.g. internal, Client-Partner)
- Support and/or lead business development activities
- Manage risk
- Other duties as assigned
General and Specific Knowledge
- Best practices, methods, trends and legislation in real property, environmental and construction services
- Client-Partner project management policies and procedures
- Treasury Board Secretariat policies and procedures
- Project and risk management principles
- Minimum: college diploma in engineering, architecture or related field with four years’ relevant experience, or the equivalent
- Preferred: university degree in one of the above fields and/or additional training in project management
- Use applicable computer software and operating systems
- Apply project and risk management techniques
- Provide functional direction and advice to employees and to Client-Partners
- Typical office environment with occasional travel
- Some work may be located on construction sites; incumbent may occasionally be required to wear basic safety equipment
- Public service pension
- 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, health and dental premiums, and life, accidental death, and short- and long-term disability insurance
- $400 Wellness Allowance (e.g., gym membership)
- $1,500 for mental health services on top of regular $1,500 paramedical coverage
- $750 Health Care Spending Account (for some medical expenses that aren’t covered under provincial plans or our standard insurance plan)
- Telus Virtual Health Care
- Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for a maximum of 37 weeks
- $400 allowance every two years to support work-from-home options
- Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program
- Deluxe travel benefit plans
- Comprehensive vacation and other paid leave plans