Job Description
On behalf of our public-sector client, Affinity is seeking a Delivery Manager IT Redevelopment IMIT to lead integrated IT delivery for the New Surrey Hospital and BC Cancer Centre redevelopment. The role coordinates infrastructure, connectivity, telecommunications, building systems, clinical equipment integration, procurement, commissioning, cutover, and operational transition across multiple technical workstreams.
Responsibilities
- Integrated Delivery Planning: Develop, maintain, and execute the integrated IT Delivery Plan for the assigned technical portfolio, incorporating plans, milestones, and requirements from technical leads and aligning them with the IMIT Master Plan and overall project delivery strategy.
- Schedule Management and Coordination: Develop and maintain the integrated IT technical delivery schedule, including work packages, milestones, dependencies, critical dates, and implementation sequencing, aligned with the Master Construction Schedule, Builder commissioning activities, and Authority readiness milestones.
- Technical Workstream Coordination: Provide project management and coordination across technical delivery workstreams, working with technical leads to establish deliverables, schedules, dependencies, and readiness requirements while maintaining an integrated view of progress.
- Network and Connectivity Delivery: Coordinate network infrastructure and connectivity delivery plans and dependencies, incorporating network architecture, network delivery, firewall, cybersecurity, and secure-connectivity requirements into the overall delivery schedule.
- Communications Infrastructure: Coordinate activities and dependencies related to communication rooms, structured cabling, fibre, pathways, grounding and bonding, telecommunications infrastructure, and related Builder-provided infrastructure, ensuring requirements, reviews, and readiness activities are incorporated into project schedules.
- Wireless, Voice and Telecommunications: Coordinate schedules, dependencies, and implementation activities for wireless infrastructure, DAS, emergency communications, voice and telephony, carrier services, and external connectivity, including technical requirements, testing, and readiness criteria.
- Systems and Building Technology: Coordinate infrastructure and schedule dependencies associated with building systems and connected technologies, ensuring network, integration, construction, testing, and commissioning dependencies are reflected in the overall IT Delivery Plan.
- Systems Integration: Coordinate infrastructure prerequisites and delivery activities associated with the IBMP, systems integration, Simulation Lab, SAF/SAP processes, testing, and commissioning, ensuring dependencies and infrastructure requirements are incorporated into delivery schedules.
- Clinical Equipment Infrastructure: Incorporate network, connectivity, interface, and technical infrastructure dependencies associated with connected clinical equipment into the integrated IT Delivery Plan, coordinating infrastructure readiness for equipment integration, vendors, and testing.
- Solution Architecture Interface: Work with the Solution Architect and technical leads to ensure approved architecture decisions, solution dependencies, and technical requirements affecting infrastructure delivery are reflected in implementation plans, schedules, and commissioning activities.
- Procurement and Implementation: Develop and maintain consolidated procurement and implementation plans, coordinating Bills of Material, procurement schedules, equipment lead times, delivery sequencing, staging, and implementation readiness.
- Design and Construction Interface: Coordinate IT Delivery activities with the Design Builder and project teams to ensure technical infrastructure dependencies are incorporated into design and construction sequencing, including coordination of RFIs, shop drawings, ACC PINs, design changes, and technical submissions.
- Risk, Issue and Dependency Management: Maintain visibility of technical delivery risks, issues, and cross-workstream dependencies, coordinate mitigation and recovery activities, and escalate significant matters affecting IMIT scope, budget, priorities, milestones, or commitments.
- Change Coordination: Coordinate the assessment of proposed changes with technical leads, consolidating impacts to schedule, cost, procurement, resources, construction, integration, and commissioning to support scope, funding, and priority decisions.
- Commissioning and Testing Coordination: Develop and maintain an integrated technical commissioning-readiness plan, coordinating infrastructure prerequisites, schedules, dependencies, testing requirements, acceptance criteria, and readiness evidence across technical teams, vendors, systems integrators, and commissioning teams.
- Technical Cutover and Production Turnover: Coordinate the development and execution of the integrated technical cutover and production-turnover plan, ensuring dependencies, deficiencies, readiness requirements, and operational-support needs are managed throughout the transition.
- Operational Transition Coordination: Coordinate transition activities between project delivery teams and operational support organizations, ensuring documentation, technical acceptance, support dependencies, and outstanding deficiencies are incorporated into the transition plan.
- Delivery Reporting and Governance Support: Provide consolidated reporting on technical delivery progress, schedule performance, milestones, procurement, dependencies, risks, issues, commissioning readiness, and matters requiring decisions or escalation, while supporting project governance forums.
- Delivery Meetings and Issue Resolution: Facilitate delivery coordination meetings and working sessions across technical leads, project teams, the Design Builder, vendors, and stakeholders, driving actions to resolution and ensuring issues have clear ownership, timelines, and escalation paths.
- Overall IMIT Readiness Support: Coordinate technical delivery inputs into the broader IMIT readiness and go-live program, ensuring infrastructure, connectivity, integration dependencies, commissioning activities, and production turnover remain aligned with the overall facility opening plan.
Key Deliverables
- Integrated IT Delivery Plan (Master Plan) and Work Breakdown Structure.
- Integrated technical delivery schedule and milestone plan.
- Consolidated technical procurement and implementation plan.
- Cross-workstream dependency and interface tracking.
- Delivery risk, issue, action, and decision tracking.
- Technical delivery status and readiness reporting.
- Integrated commissioning and test-readiness plan.
- Technical cutover and production-turnover plan.
- Operational transition and handover plan.
- Project completion and lessons-learned documentation.
Qualifications
- 10-year experience in an IT project or program management delivery role leading, planning, prioritizing and executing on multiple deliveries simultaneously.
- Ability to work in an ambiguous, changing / reactionary priorities environment.
- Able to efficiently prioritize and structure clear and unclear workloads.
- Subject matter understanding and project management experience with majority of the IT the areas listed in the above section Scope of Consulting Services.
- Open to rolling up your sleeves, applying subject matter understanding and project management expertise, to dive into the details to uncover optimal solutions to technical design, implementation and hand-over sustain problems.
- Strong communication skills, and ability to interact with internal and external partners.
Qualifications That Are a Plus Preference
- 7 years IT infrastructure delivery experience as part of facilities construction projects.
- Background experience with P3 and/or Design-Build contractual statement of requirements related to IT infrastructure.
- Formal project management training or certification.
- Healthcare industry experience in an IT capacity.
- Fraser Health Authority work experience.
- 5 years’ experience working directly with Telecommunication providers.
- Background understanding of Distributed Antenna System infrastructure requirements/capabilities for both high band Cellular (e.g. 4G, 5G) and low band radio frequencies (e.g. ECOMM).
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About Affinity
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