Safety Assurance Project Manager (Supporting the Go Expansion Program)

December 12 2024
Industries Consulting services
Categories Engineering,
Toronto, ON • Full time

Job Description

  • (Internal Title- Project Management III)
    • The Safety Assurance Project Manager will work within the Design and Systems Integration team within the GO Expansion Program Team
    • The role will comprise of leading the implementation of Safety Assurance Requirements across GO Expansion to ensure full compliance is achieved by all Project Delivery Teams
    • Work with the wider Metrolinx business to up-skill the wider GO Expansion teams and ensure safety is prioritized across all projects
    • Develop and agree sufficient document templates for multiple Safety Assurance deliverables and ensure these are briefed out across the GO Expansion Program to all Project Delivery Teams
    • Manage the production, review and issue of Safety Assurance deliverables from all GO Expansion Projects
    • Investigate safety assurance status, processes and procedures used by various projects within the GO Expansion program
    • Capture and share client needs by building strong relationships and generating confidence through engineering excellence with a commitment to satisfactory outcomes
    • Help develop legacy training programs in Safety Assurance
    • Liaise with wider GO Expansion teams to ensure consistency and quality of deliverables across all areas of the program
    • Responsible for managing, fostering, and maintaining senior level client relationships
    • Identification and escalation of Program level risks and issues that impact on delivery
    • Facilitate a project environment which is inclusive, diverse and celebrates our differences
    • Adopt a high performing culture open to constructive challenge, seeking continual improvement and implementing lessons learnt
    • Demonstrate senior leadership and core competencies at a high level of development
    • The ability to engage and motivate others. To act as a role model and inspire others
    • Ability to anticipate and forecast the key risks and opportunities available to the Program to ensure the core vision is achieved
    • Respectfully listens to others and considers all views presented
    • Puts team success above own interests.
    • Recognizes and understands the Clients priorities and holds the ability to adapt to requirements
    • Coordinates workstreams and establishes actions plans with key stakeholders for implementation
    • Execute and manage the assigned project or project elements from inception through to completion
    • Establish new project plans in consultation with stakeholders, including clients
    • Assign the human and material resources required to complete the project successfully
    • Formulate a resource allocation strategy and utilize this to distribute work and budgets
    • Authorize work management and project delivery control per the project plan
    • Monitor project staff performance to ensure excellence and adherence to specified deadlines
    • Review and ensure adherence to the overall scope, schedule, and budget
    • Supervise, track, and report on performance against project requirements, schedule, milestones, budgets, quality measures, and KPIs, and address issues with corrective actions as appropriate
    • Evaluate project effectiveness by consulting with clients and project staff

Working Conditions

  • Office-based

Qualifications

  • Experience:
    • Minimum of 8 years of experience in Project Management and managing the systems assurance on complex major railway infrastructure projects
    • Broad Rail Engineering experience
  • Education:
    • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent with professional work experience in a relevant engineering or project management discipline
  • Licenses OR Certifications:
    • Holding a recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
  • Skills and Competencies:
    • Strong project manager level leadership skills to manage and motivate program delivery teams delivering high risk, complex projects
    • Deep awareness of safety issues in an operational and project delivery environment
    • Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
    • Proficient in Project Management software
    • Thorough understanding of prevailing Project Management methods
    • Expert knowledge of tools and metrics needed to evaluate project performance
    • Strong ability to identify and minimize risks in advance
    • Capability to detect, capitalize, and be sensitive to others' strengths
    • Strong supervision, delegation, and capacity development abilities
    • Detailed experience in effectively leading mid-sized multi-disciplinary project teams
    • Competent to perceive and ameliorate conflict and tension
    • Ability to arrange priorities and escalate competing risks to meet deadlines with minimum input from leadership
    • Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities
    • Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving information (written and verbal)
    • Expert ability to work collaboratively and independently in a structured, disciplined, technology-driven environment
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