Section Manager, Engineering Projects

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 Canada’s 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 : Section Manager, Engineering Projects

Employment Level : Senior

Location : 393 University Avenue, Toronto, ON

Department : Design & Engineering Services (DES), Engineering Programs

Reports to : Director, Engineering Programs

Number Required : 1

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.

Competitive Compensation : We offer a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America.

We are looking for a self-motivated individual who is excited about becoming a key contributor within a dynamic team

Accountabilities : How You Will Make an Impact

• Lead a team of project engineers and project managers to deliver project management, program management and bid management expertise to power generation utilities and other customers.
• Apply a significant level of project management expertise to ensure projects are managed effectively (i.e., develop and manage scope, time, cost, performance, safety, communication, human resources, contracts, materials, risks, and quality).
• Accountability for advanced multidisciplinary projects with substantial scope and complexity and variable duration, covering a broad range of technical and commercial issues and with significant revenue and industry wide impact.
• Take the lead role in consulting with clients and stakeholders to maintain strong relationships and enhance Kinectrics business capabilities.
• Interact with a full range of skilled staff (e.g., Design Engineering, Nuclear Safety, Facility Staff, Procurement, and Construction) on highly unique or important matters.
• Proactively and independently identify, investigate, and resolve complex project risks.
• Provide timely and up-to-date project information, to Kinectrics Management, project team, and customer(s) in the form of proposals, reports, recommendations, and presentations.
• Lead the development of new and innovative technical and project solutions and services to support customer needs beyond the scope of past practices or precedent.
• Manage vendor performance and support interdepartmental interfaces to achieve project goals.
• Identify and implement new and innovative solutions to resolve issues and enhance project efficiency while maintaining quality.
• Ensure that projects have an associated schedule including critical path, cost loading, Earned Value Analysis (EVA), relationships and logic ties, constraints, milestones, and codes.
• Retain historical information for cost and schedule impact analysis for future work.
• Independently plan, develop, write, and present major proposals.
• Establish and communicate Project Execution Plans to define duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority to relevant stakeholders.
• Provide mentorship and work direction to junior Kinectrics staff and review complex work of others for accuracy.
• Assign resources, maintain budgets and schedules associated with projects.
• Prepare bids in answer to clients’ requests for proposals.
• Interface with clients and maintain a client focused culture within the Section.
• Responsible for staffing and resourcing decisions, including scheduling, and assigning work.
• Provide support to Director, Engineering Programs and other Senior Leaders as required.
• Other duties as required.

Performance and Leadership :

• Display strong leadership skills and independent judgement to be recognized by your peers and customers as a sound, practical and innovative project manager with extraordinary skills in the discipline.
• Leads by example and achieves results by effectively communicating job performance expectations.
• Facilitates internal relationships and effective use of resources.
• Proactively seeks to enhance the resource base.
• Responsible for staffing and resourcing decisions, including scheduling, and assigning work.
• Performs managerial functions such as hiring, promotion, performance reviews, pay increases, staff development. and disciplinary actions in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Provides mentoring and development to employees and contribute to the recruitment of new staff.
• Identifies growth and development opportunities for team members.

Culture Development :

• Supports Director, Engineering Projects to drive a culture of high performance and safety where everyone is committed to and accountable for delivery of performance goals and operational KPIs, ensuring a customer first culture.
• Provides training and skill development for both day-to-day operations as well as for growth and improved performance.
• Develops a culture of continuous improvement in processes and initiate / monitor corrective actions required to improve performance.
• Creates and maintains a positive culture focused on worker morale and corporate social responsibility.

Financial :

• Ensures business systems are updated and accurate including revenue forecasts.
• Manages and motivates assigned staff and team members, achieving effective utilization of resources and prioritization.

Ensure effective facility management, work allocation and safe operations.

Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual operations budget; scheduling expenditures;

analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.

Supports Director, Engineering Projects with maintaining service line profit and loss, material cost, labour and bottom-line results, budgeting, business planning and reporting as needed.

Health, Safety and Compliance :

• Supports Director, Engineering Projects to drive a culture of Right first time / Safety First and that all scheduling, programming, and monitoring work is conducted in compliance with regulations that apply to the work and customer.
• Ensures quality of investigations to identify corrective action and non-recurrence.
• Accountable supporting error free culture & staff behaviors by implementing human performance tools.
• Leads by example and set high standards for Health & Safety and Nuclear Safety Culture.

Management and Continuous Improvement :

• Ensures that the business strategy is well developed and based on good market and competitor knowledge. The agreed strategy is to be clearly articulated and communicated.
• Develops a business model which drives efficiency into the business.
• Seeks to grow the scope of the product and service enhancements.
• Builds relationships with current and future customers while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
• Ensures effective project management within service line.
• Drives timely input to invoicing and collections processes.
• Meets personal and team billability targets.

What You Need to Succeed

• A four-year university degree in Engineering (Electrical / I&C, Nuclear, Mechanical, Chemical, Civil Engineering, and / or) or equivalent.
• Experience : 6+ years of experience independently managing multi-disciplinary projects with significant scope and complexity demonstrating a clear understanding of project methodologies.

With clear demonstration of leadership skills and project management qualifications, applicants with lesser experience may be considered for a developmental position.

• Good working knowledge of basic generation plant design / operation related to Nuclear power plants, skid-based designs, or international power projects.
• Exceptional communications skills, written and verbal, formal and informal, in small and large groups.
• Ability to understand technical and business processes quickly, with initiative for continuous personal learning / improvement.
• Ability to learn and understand technical and business processes quickly and take initiative for continuous improvement.
• Ability to independently prepare and clearly present information to multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrates strengths in advanced and complex conflict resolution, problem-solving, and change management.
• High sense of personal accountability.
• Knowledge and experience in project accounting software (e.g., SAP), project scheduling software (e.g., Primavera P6), Microsoft Office tools and related project / technical software.
• The following are considered assets : Project management certification such as Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Project Management Professional (PMP) or eligible to obtain within the first 12 months.

Accreditation (or eligibility) as a licensed Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEO).

• Ability to obtain Security clearance (or eligibility) for nuclear site access will be required.
• Travel to multiple locations (including Greater Toronto Area, Kincardine and / or Tiverton) may be required.

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.