Accenture Construct - Delivery Director, COM
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- Minimum 15 years' experience delivering major infrastructure, transportation, rail, transit or complex capital programmes.
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
THE WORK
You've Never Been Satisfied with “Good Enough.”
You didn't get into this to manage one piece of a project. You got into it to change how the world gets built.
At Accenture Construct, that's the job. You'll help deliver the data centers, power grids, rail networks, factories and public infrastructure that keep communities moving - smarter, safer and more sustainably.
You'll work alongside people who think big and act bold: project managers, engineers, technologists and strategists who pair real-world delivery with AI. And you won't be handed a slice of it. We take on whole programs, from early strategy through construction and handover, and we stand behind how they land.
Because “good enough” builds the past. You're here to build what's next.
- (Internal Title: Project Management V)
- The Delivery Director will provide senior leadership across a portfolio of stations projects for the SCT-Stations team. The role will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing project readiness, governance, safety assurance and strategic delivery activities across the portfolio.
- Leading MTC readiness planning and implementation activities across the Stations Portfolio.
- Ensuring governance, reporting and decision-making processes are aligned with IDPC requirements.
- Providing oversight of safety assurance tracking, action management and close-out activities across the portfolio.
- Supporting commercial negotiations, commercial issue resolution and contract-related matters as required.
- Working with project teams, functional leads and stakeholders to identify and mitigate delivery risks.
- Supporting portfolio performance management, reporting and delivery assurance activities.
- Engaging with Metrolinx, delivery partners, contractors and other stakeholders to support
- successful project outcomes.
- Providing strategic leadership and support across the portfolio during readiness, handover and transition phases.
- Working Conditions
- Office-based
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- Degree or diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years' experience delivering major infrastructure, transportation, rail, transit or complex capital programmes.
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams across large and complex project portfolios.
- Significant experience in project governance, risk management, programme controls and stakeholder management.
- Experience managing readiness, assurance, commissioning, handover or operational transition activities.
- Experience supporting commercial negotiations, contract administration and issue resolution.
- Strong understanding of public sector governance and major capital project delivery environments.
- Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills.
About Accenture Construct
Accenture Construct is Accenture's global capital projects business.
The data centers behind AI. The grid behind the energy transition. The rail, water and airports everything else runs on.
We plan them, engineer them, deliver them and hand them over - and unlike most of this market, we're on the hook for whether they land on time. More than 5,000 practitioners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. One team that owns the whole thing.
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.
Role Location Salary Range
Toronto $174,000 - $261,000
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Delivery Director at Accenture Construct will oversee project readiness, governance and safety assurance across a stations portfolio. They will also support commercial negotiations and engage with Metrolinx and delivery partners to keep projects on track.
Requirements
Candidates need a degree or diploma in engineering, construction or project management, and at least 15 years leading complex infrastructure programs. Strong governance, risk, stakeholder management and public sector experience are required.
Skills
- Project governance
- Risk management
- Programme controls
- Stakeholder management
- Commercial negotiation
- Contract administration
- Safety assurance
- Readiness planning
- Commissioning
- Handover
- Multidisciplinary team leadership
- Public sector governance
- Issue resolution
- Reporting
Categories
- Engineering
- Consulting
- Construction
- Transportation
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Delivery Director
- Project Management
- Infrastructure
- Capital Projects
- Construction Management
- Stations
- Transit
- Rail
- Metrolinx
- Readiness
- Governance
- Risk Management
- Programme Controls
- Commercial Negotiations
- Safety Assurance
- Stakeholder Management
- Public Sector
- Handover
- Commissioning
- Portfolio Management
Seniority
Senior
Fields of study
- Engineering
- Construction Management
- Project Management