📍 Medicine Hat, AB | Full-Time | Permanent | Hybrid Work Environment
🛠️ About the Role
The Project Manager is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of assigned projects throughout the project lifecycle, from initiation through completion, ensuring delivery within approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements. The role coordinates cross-functional teams, manages project risks and stakeholders, and applies established project governance and methodologies to achieve customer and organizational objectives.
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Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project plans and schedules, ensuring delivery against approved scope, cost, quality, and schedule commitments.
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Manage project deliverables against contractual requirements, milestones, acceptance criteria, and customer commitments, escalating potential delivery impacts as required.
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Coordinate cross-functional teams, including commercial, engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and support functions.
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Develop and maintain project documentation, including project charters, schedules, risk registers, and status reports.
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Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
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Ensure compliance with all contractual, regulatory, and security requirements, particularly those specific to the defence industry.
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Monitor and control project budgets, forecasts, costs, and financial performance, identifying variances and implementing or escalating corrective actions as required.
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Manage project change control processes, ensuring impacts to scope, schedule, and cost are assessed, approved, and communicated.
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Lead project closeout activities, including completion of deliverables, lessons learned, financial closure, and transition of outstanding actions.
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Identify, assess, track, and manage project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID), developing mitigation and recovery actions and escalating where required.
Skill Requirements:
🎓 What You Bring
Education/Work Experience Requirements:
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3–5 years of progressively responsible project management experience, including demonstrated experience independently managing project scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder requirements.
Additional Desirable Assets
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Experience in defence, aerospace, uncrewed systems, or other highly regulated industries, with an understanding of defence customers, markets, and operating environments, is desirable.
Travel Requirements
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This role may require flexibility to support off-site program activities, including customer and vendor engagement, project meetings, coordination and witnessing of field trials, test activities, and other delivery requirements, with travel as required
🔐 Security
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada and meet the eligibility requirements to obtain and maintain the Government of Canada security clearance required for the position
- Must be eligible for and maintain a clear background check, including criminal record screening, as required for security clearance
💡 Why QinetiQ?
We offer a high-performing, inclusive work environment where you can thrive, contribute meaningfully, and be your authentic self. Our people-first culture supports your wellbeing, growth, and ability to make a real impact.
You’ll also benefit from a competitive salary and benefits package, including:
- Extended health and wellness spending accounts
- RRSP/TFSA matching
- Access to continuous learning and development opportunities
- And more!
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