Project Manager Rail Access Supporting the GO Expansion Program

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Comtech Group Inc. (Comtech) is a multidisciplinary consulting firm providing integrated consulting solutions on complex capital projects, including Program and Project Management, Project Controls, Engineering, Technical Advisory, Construction Management, and Technology Integration Services. Our team thrives on embracing and navigating technical challenges within the Transportation and Infrastructure, Industrial and Manufacturing, Energy and Utilities, and Buildings and Facilities markets. Our core focus is supporting project owners through collaborative and integrated partnerships to deliver projects that improve the world around us.

Job Title

Project Manager Rail Access (Supporting the GO Expansion Program)

Location

Toronto, ON CA (Primary)

Category

Job Type

Full-time

Job Responsibilities

(Internal Role: Project Management V)

Details:

• Role Status: Permanent
• Salary Range: $210,000 - $225,000
• Benefits Package: Comprehensive Health and Dental benefits as well as a Pension package
• Vacancy: 1
• Language of Work: English
• Location of Employment: 1595 16th Ave, Suite 400 Richmond Hill, Ontario
• Responsible for the assigned projects from inception through to completion
• Develop new project plans in consultation with stakeholders, including clients
• Direct the human and material resources required to complete assigned projects successfully
• Formulate a resource allocation strategy and utilize this to distribute work and budgets
• Exercise authority in managing the work and controlling the delivery of the projects per project plans
• Monitor project staff performance to ensure excellence and adherence to specified deadlines
• Review and ensure observance of the overall scope, schedule, and budget
• Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies and contingency plans
• Lead the tracking, monitoring, and reporting on performance against project requirements, schedule, milestones, budgets, quality measures, and KPIs, and addressing of issues with corrective actions as appropriate
• Evaluate the project's effectiveness by consulting with clients and project staff
• Oversee staff on progress reports, proposals, and presentations to various audiences, including the project team, client executives, key stakeholders, and operations
• Direct the negotiation of scope changes
• Manage ongoing quality control checks and participate in quality issue resolution
• Define the success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project and program life cycle
• Set and interpret project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members and stakeholders

Project Responsibilities:

• Providing strategic access planning guidance and support based on industry practice, knowledge and lessons learned
• Identifying access plan constraints and developing strategies to alleviate
• Support all parties to plan, book and utilize appropriate access aligned to associated work activity with maximum efficiency
• Assessing and determining the need for change to access planning processes and methods and implementing changes to deliver improved performance
• Supporting with deconfliction analysis and implementation
• Supporting with improving visibility of planned and booked works
• Support with access to specific negotiation
• Support access innovation aiming to achieve cost reduction and improve safety
• Providing expertise to maximize the available working windows
• Support with the use and optimization the Rail access planning tool
• Assist with adherence to access process, procedure and standards
• Communicate and demonstrate planning best practice

Working Conditions

• Office-based

• Experience:
  • Minimum of 18 years of experience in Project Management
• Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• Licenses OR Certifications:
  • Holding a recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Skills and Competencies:
  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of access issues in a railway environment
  • Knowledge and understanding of contractual issues in an access environment
  • Extensive awareness of safety issues in an operational railway environment
  • Extensive knowledge of access improvement initiatives and an understanding of how to drive these through to bring the desired benefits
  • Have experience of planning complex, multidisciplinary construction works within operational corridors
  • Have experience of leading rail access staff
  • Have experience of rail access booking systems
  • Be able to understand various rules and regulations that dictate strategic access
  • Expert grasp of prevailing Project Management methods
  • In-depth understanding of tools and metrics needed to evaluate project performance
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
  • Proficient in Project Management software
  • Must maintain professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices
  • Ability to arrange priorities and escalate competing risks to meet deadlines with minimum input from leadership
  • Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities with a track record for meeting deadlines
  • Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving information (written and verbal) in a demanding multidisciplinary project environment
  • Expert ability to detect, capitalize, and be sensitive to others' strengths
  • Demonstrated capability to supervise, delegate, and develop capacity
  • Proven capacity to anticipate, identify, and minimize risks
  • Effectively lead multi-resource Project Management teams
  • Ability to perceive and ameliorate conflict and tension
  • Expert ability to work collaboratively and independently on creative and analytical tasks in a structured, disciplined, technology-driven environment
  • Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment by ensuring effective teamwork, promotion of innovation, and overall excellence
  • Demonstrated functional acumen to support how solutions will address client goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices
  • Proven success in providing effective leadership by building and motivating teams to meet project goals and adhere to their responsibilities and project milestones
  • Capability to understand the interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs