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Senior Project Manager
- Burnaby, BC, Canada
$150,000 to $220,500 USD / year · Full-time
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- Pay
- $150,000 to $220,500 USD / year
- Job type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Experience
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience delivering major infrastructure projects
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Your impact
At Jacobs, we're helping our clients deliver some of the most significant transportation infrastructure investments in British Columbia. As a Senior Project Manager, you'll be responsible for leading the delivery of major transportation infrastructure projects and program workstreams while ensuring alignment with client objectives, schedules, budgets, and quality expectations.
In this role you will
Ideally, you'll also have
150,000.00
Posted Salary Range Upper
220,500.00
The base salary range for this position is $150,000.00 to $220,500.00. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across British Columbia, Canada locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs Workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the nature of their role.
Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.
Your impact
At Jacobs, we're helping our clients deliver some of the most significant transportation infrastructure investments in British Columbia. As a Senior Project Manager, you'll be responsible for leading the delivery of major transportation infrastructure projects and program workstreams while ensuring alignment with client objectives, schedules, budgets, and quality expectations.
In this role you will
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex transportation and infrastructure projects
- Provide oversight of project scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and stakeholder management activities
- Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams across engineering, environmental, construction, commercial, and project controls disciplines
- Manage relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, agencies, and other project stakeholders
- Facilitate issue resolution and support timely project decision-making
- Monitor project performance and proactively identify risks, opportunities, and corrective actions
- Lead project meetings, workshops, and governance activities
- Prepare executive presentations, reports, and recommendations for senior leadership and client stakeholders
- Support procurement, contract management, change management, and project controls activities
- Mentor and support project management staff while fostering a culture of collaboration, safety, and delivery excellence
- Contribute to business growth through strong client relationships and successful project outcomes.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience delivering major infrastructure projects
- Demonstrated experience managing large, complex transportation, transit, highway, bridge, rail, or infrastructure projects
- Strong understanding of project management principles, project controls, risk management, schedule management, and cost management
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and coordinating multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent communication, leadership, negotiation, and relationship-building skills
- Ability to effectively manage competing priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
Ideally, you'll also have
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation or other relevant professional certification
- PMP certification
- Experience working in an owner's representative, program management, consulting, or infrastructure delivery environment
- Experience supporting public sector transportation and infrastructure projects
- Familiarity with alternative delivery models such as Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, CMGC, or Alliance delivery.
150,000.00
Posted Salary Range Upper
220,500.00
The base salary range for this position is $150,000.00 to $220,500.00. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across British Columbia, Canada locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs Workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the nature of their role.
Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.
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Responsibilities
Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of major transportation and infrastructure projects, overseeing scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, project controls, and stakeholder coordination. Manage client and partner relationships, facilitate decisions and issue resolution, report to senior leaders, support contracts and procurement, mentor project staff, and contribute to business growth.
Requirements
A bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a related discipline and at least 15 years of progressive experience delivering major infrastructure projects are required. Candidates should have experience with complex transportation projects, project controls, multidisciplinary teams, and stakeholder management; a P.Eng. or other relevant certification, PMP, public-sector experience, and alternative delivery model familiarity are preferred.
Skills
- Project Management
- Transportation Infrastructure
- Project Planning
- Project Delivery
- Scope Management
- Schedule Management
- Budget Management
- Risk Management
- Quality Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Controls
- Contract Management
- Change Management
- Leadership
- Negotiation
- Multidisciplinary Team Coordination
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Transportation
- Engineering
- Construction
- Consulting
Keywords
- Transportation Infrastructure
- Transit
- Highways
- Bridges
- Rail
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Project Controls
- Risk Management
- Schedule Management
- Cost Management
- Quality Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Multidisciplinary Teams
- Procurement
- Contract Management
- Change Management
- Owner's Representative
- Public Sector Projects
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)
- PMP Certification
- Design-Build
- Progressive Design-Build
- CMGC
- Alliance Delivery