Technical Director - Project Management, Rail and Transit

Location
Mississauga, ON
 
Full job description
Join a leading, global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of transportation, water, energy and urbanization.

GHD has an exciting focus on future communities and future energy and integrated transportation plays a key role in the delivery of these visions

Who we are looking for:

Due to continuing growth in our Rail and Transit practice, we are seeking a Technical Director, Rail and Transit to join our growing team. This position will be integral to support the continuing development and growth of GHD's Rail and Transit business.

This is a lifetime opportunity for individuals who are driven, passionate and looking to be challenged in their career development. We offer an opportunity to be part of a growing and dynamic employee-owned company, in a professional working environment that is client-focused and quality-driven.

Accountable for a program or group of interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity. This individual will focus on the creation of the program vision and planning documents and manage the integration, implementation, reporting, and performance of the overall program with the expectation of delivering on time, within budget, and to scope.

Responsibilities:

Culture of Innovation: Define the execution plan to disseminate innovative capabilities across the businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to innovate through solutions. Development and Management of multi-discipline design teams for project delivery
Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across the program to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice at both project and program levels.
Transformational Change Management: Lead the detailed design of projects within a transformational change program and manage their delivery, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to drive acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
Leadership and Direction: Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals. Lead technical delivery across multidiscipline projects providing mentorship and technical advice.
Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
Project Team Management: Lead large project and program teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project/program vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; manage resources across projects/programs; negotiate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring. Interfaces with GHD Design and Project Managers and production team (potentially located internationally) on resource management, schedule and budget
Lead technical workshops: with stakeholders, clients, and internally to promote best for project outcomes
Project Assurance: Lead the design and delivery of project assurance reviews, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
Project Scope Definition: Lead the planning and delivery of complex, wide-ranging information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on program and project deliverables, ensuring integration across the program and with the wider portfolio, where present.
Project Governance: Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within the project-delivery and project-management office teams, and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
Portfolio Management: Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of programs within a significant area of responsibility, using an appropriate program and project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.
Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level. Lead the improvement efforts that are within span of control at this level.
Project Benefit Realization: Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended business benefits are realized across a program.
Project Resource Management: Lead the negotiation and deployment of annual and longer-term program and project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
Project Risk and Issue Management: Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at project level. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the project, develop and agree on recovery plans.
Education

Master's Degree or Equivalent Level
Experience

General Experience: Experience level enables job holder to provide leadership to others regarding work related systems, processes and challenges
15+ years of delivery of large multi-discipline engineering teams (500 mil +) with experience in complex station design
Managerial Experience: Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years)
Project Leadership experience on LRT/BRT projects
Hold a Professional Engineering License (P. Eng) in the Province of Ontario
Be accredited with PMP certification (or working towards)
Project Delivery in an alternate project delivery (P3, DB), and experience in managing teaming arrangements with contractors and consultants
We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact.

See where your commitment could take you with GHD.

As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.

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