Kinectrics is a wholly owned subsidiary of BWX Technologies focused on providing life cycle management services in the energy and utility sector. We develop innovative solutions for the global electricity and medical industries, helping empower a sustainable future. Trusted by clients worldwide, our employees provide expertise in engineering, testing, and inspection across a wide range of services. With offices worldwide and independent laboratories and testing facilities, we collaborate closely with clients to ensure utility assets perform safely, reliably, and efficiently throughout their entire life cycle.
Kinectrics takes pride in being consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the energy and utility industry, where purpose and people mean as much as innovation and growth. That’s why we choose only the best and brightest to join us. To keep pace with the expanding energy and utility sector, Kinectrics has grown from a company of 300 to over 1,000 in only the last few years - and we aren’t looking to slow down. Join our diverse, supportive workplace for a rewarding career in the electricity industry.
Visit our website to learn more: www.kinectrics.com
The Opportunity
Position: Project Manager - Cables and Transformers
Employment Type: Permanent
Employment Level : Senior
Location: 800 Kipling Avenue, Toronto, ON
Department: HVST
Hours per week: 37.5
Number Required: 1
Starting Salary $120,000 annual. Exact compensation may vary depending on the individual experience and qualifications of each candidate. Applicants with greater or less than the minimum qualifications for this posted opportunity may be considered for alternate opportunities.
What We Offer
At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver’s seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.
- Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
- Growth: To keep pace with Canada’s expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
- Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
- Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
- Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.
Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact
- Provide project management leadership for projects involving high voltage, medium voltage and low voltage cable and transformer systems.
- Manage projects from initial customer inquiry and proposal development through planning, execution, monitoring, reporting, invoicing and closeout.
- Develop project execution plans that define scope, deliverables, schedule, budget, resource requirements, procurement needs, quality requirements, safety expectations, risks, assumptions and responsibilities.
- Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams consisting of engineering, technical, laboratory, field, operations, commercial and administrative personnel.
- Manage projects involving the inspection, testing, commissioning, maintenance, condition assessment, qualification, troubleshooting and engineering support of cable and transformer assets in laboratory and field environments.
- Work with engineering and technical personnel to coordinate installation support, commissioning, diagnostic testing, inspection, maintenance, repair, failure investigation and forensic analysis activities.
- Establish and maintain project schedules, budgets, forecasts and resource plans. Monitor performance, identify variances and implement corrective actions to protect project objectives, revenue and profitability.
- Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues and opportunities. Develop mitigation and contingency plans and escalate significant matters as required.
- Manage project scope and document changes to customer requirements, technical assumptions, schedules, budgets and deliverables. Prepare and obtain approval for change orders where required.
- Serve as the primary project contact for assigned customers and communicate regularly regarding project status, technical activities, schedule, commercial matters, risks, issues and required decisions.
- Prepare and support quotations, proposals and tenders, including scope of work, execution methodology, assumptions, exclusions, schedules, resource requirements and cost estimates.
- Support contract negotiation and administration, including clarification of customer requirements, review of commercial terms and coordination of contractual deliverables.
- Coordinate field activities, including personnel, equipment, subcontractors, customer interfaces, site access, travel, shipping, permits and project documentation.
- Review project reports, test documentation, technical deliverables and customer communications for completeness and alignment with contractual requirements before submission.
- Ensure project activities are conducted in accordance with applicable quality requirements, safe work practices, customer procedures and Kinectrics policies and programs.
- Support project invoicing, revenue forecasting, cost control and the timely resolution of outstanding commercial matters.
- Identify opportunities for follow-on work and additional services and support the continued development of Kinectrics capabilities in cable and transformer services.
- Provide project management guidance to engineers, technologists, technicians and other project personnel and contribute to the improvement of project management processes, tools and lessons learned.
- Manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a dynamic, customer-focused environment.
- Coordinate the assignment of personnel, equipment and other resources to meet customer schedules while balancing competing priorities and resource constraints.
- Identify scheduling conflicts, equipment shortages and staffing gaps, and implement solutions to minimize project impacts.
- Adjust schedules in response to customer requests, emergent work, site conditions, equipment availability and other project changes.
- Coordinate the availability, movement and readiness of specialized testing equipment to support project execution.
What You Need To Succeed
- A four-year university degree in electrical engineering or another relevant engineering discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience in project management.
- Professional Engineer designation or eligibility for registration as a Professional Engineer is preferred.
- Project Management Professional designation or another recognized project management certification is considered an asset.
- Approximately seven to ten years of relevant experience, including progressively responsible project management or project leadership experience.
- Demonstrated project management experience in the electrical utility, power systems, energy, industrial, engineering consulting, construction, commissioning, testing or asset management sectors.
- Experience scheduling and coordinating field personnel, engineering resources, specialized testing equipment and subcontractors across multiple simultaneous projects.
- Experience managing projects involving high voltage, medium voltage or low voltage cable systems, power or distribution transformers, substations, electrical testing, commissioning, maintenance, condition assessment or related field services is preferred.
- General knowledge of electrical transmission and distribution systems and associated equipment, including cables, transformers, breakers, switchgear, conductors, terminations, joints and insulation systems.
- Working knowledge of cable and transformer design, installation, testing, commissioning, operation, maintenance and asset management practices.
- Experience developing project scopes, execution plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, resource plans, risk registers, proposals, quotations and customer-facing reports.
- Experience administering contracts, managing changes in scope and coordinating subcontractors, suppliers or external service providers.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate engineering, technical, laboratory and field personnel.
- Strong commercial awareness, including project costing, forecasting, profitability, invoicing and change management.
- Strong customer focus and the ability to establish credibility, manage expectations and maintain effective relationships with customers and stakeholders.
- Strong organization, planning, decision-making, risk management and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership of assignments and manage multiple projects and priorities concurrently.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and familiarity with project scheduling or project management software.
- Strong oral, written, presentation, negotiation, facilitation and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability and willingness to travel nationally and internationally and to work at customer sites, substations, industrial facilities, laboratories and other field locations as required.
- Ability to meet applicable customer, site access, safety, security and regulatory requirements.
This role requires the successful candidate to complete the security clearance process. The security clearance process is conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and may take up to 12 months to complete.
Kinectrics Inc is strongly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and welcomes applications from all individuals. To learn more about our commitments please visit our diversity, equity and inclusion and indigenous relations pages.
As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a voluntary diversity survey. The collection of self-identification data is driven by our commitment to DE&I and ensures Kinectrics' continuous review and improvement of its programs. The information that you provide is strictly confidential and your responses will only be used for statistical purposes. Your responses do not affect your candidacy in any way.
Kinectrics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
