Project Director, Owner's Representative

We are strategizing, planning, and implementing projects that help clients achieve their organization’s objectives. Join our award-winning program management team and bring transformational project solutions to life. 

By managing capital programs and projects as if they were our own, our project management business, and technical experts work with clients to strategize, plan, and implement projects that help them achieve their organization’s objectives. Our award-winning team has managed thousands of projects across all sectors — hospitals, airports, and entire university campuses; infrastructure like mass transit and water-treatment facilities; and energy and resource assignments, from mines to wind farms.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking an Owner’s Representative, Project Director for the design and construction of multiple projects.  The projects will be in various phases from conceptual planning stages through design, construction, and occupancy; and range in sector and complexity. Total project costs can range from several Million to $300+Million.

As a Project Director, you will exhibit all the qualities of an experienced Project Manager with the added ability to lead client accounts.  The typical Program and Project Management client structure includes a Project Executive paired with a Project Director and/or Project Manager (and Assistant Project Manager if required) so our clients benefit from a high level of service.  This structure allows the Project Director to lead the team, while having a support structure of Stantec Program and Project Management Executives.  Project Directors have autonomy and are empowered to lead project teams, while having access to executive oversight when required.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of multiple projects valued at $25m-$300m, to include both renovations and new builds
• Directly managing activities of up to 25-50 project team members
• Foster a diverse collaborative culture
• Manage conflicting priorities and business interests
• Motivate and inspire others along with inspiring confidence and trust in clients and potential clients
• Involve employees, deliver results, emphasize teamwork, stimulate change, and recognize performance
• Interact with client as project leader and define pace, progression, and culture of project team
• Communicate clients’ goals, constraints, and priorities to the project team
• Anticipate and foresee conditions and concerns. Make decisions on major project events, taking into consideration the impact the final direction has on the project goals and all disciplines within a project
• Ensure that scheduled activities are meeting the client’s goals and objectives
• Communicate the vision and scope of the project and keep it on track
• Develop and maintain the respect and confidence of the project team, motivating people to perform at their best
• Utilize the professional project team members and other resources efficiently
• Create a project budget including all cost parameters for the project. Position requires working knowledge of costs for capital project components
• Create schedules with all relevant events and understand their relationships
• Train PM’s in creating schedules, budgets, and overall team management
• Present budgets, schedules, and events to clients, allowing for continuous project progression with client understanding and concurrence.  Project Director will be required to present, and maintain confidence of C-suite client executives
• Monitor profitability - fee utilization against contract value
• Review the design for adherence to client expectation and budgetary constraints
• Monitor the construction process to ensure client’s objectives are met
• Take ownership and maintain full accountability for the success of the project
• Monitor all client communication and correspondence
• Review and approve all client invoices
• Review and approve project invoices and payment requests such that payments are consistent with work completed