Deputy Project Director

Job Title: Deputy Project Director Reports to: Project Director Project / Location: Vancouver, BC, hybrid, and various project sites Summary The Deputy Project Director will lead EPCM projects across various clients and sectors. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing the full project lifecycle from basic design to commissioning & turn-over, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards. This role requires strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional and cross-cultural teams to deliver successful projects within a regulated environment. Responsibilities The Deputy Project Director will be responsible for the following functions: Project Definition: Develop project battery limits, charters, and defined outcomes. Contribute to and review the project proposal and plan to determine timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project. Lead development of a detailed project executions plans and ensure these plans respect all health, safety and environmental requirements. Identify opportunities and develop proposals to expand JDS scope on existing projects. Negotiate changes to project scope or specification with the customer. Follow Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule, and quality. Project Resourcing: Work with the JDS Project Sponsor to assemble a project team comprised of internal and external resources to achieve project outcomes efficiently. Coordinate project team members and sub-contractors, as well as the client to ensure cost effective, efficient, safe, and timely completion of projects to meet and/or exceed client expectations. Mentor and train junior project managers and project services support staff. Project Management: Manage all aspects of project scope including planning, engineering, procurement/contracting, construction, commissioning, and handover under EPCM or OIT delivery models. Responsible for delivery of agreed upon schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage. Seek opportunities to optimize project performance, including budget, schedule, and quality. Manage relationships with external suppliers and sub-contractors to resolve any cost, schedule, and quality issues as they arise. Health, Safety, & Risk: Provide HSSE leadership, ensure a program of initiatives and auditing schedule are established and that HSSE and quality management issues are proactively addressed. Coordinate safety and constructability reviews and engineering progression design review meetings. Lead ongoing focus on management of project risks and key performance indicators through proactive risk identification and mitigation strategy development. Communication & Reporting Communicate with all members of the project team professionally and in a timely fashion. Maintain effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders (i.e. external clients, local governments, the public, and First Nations) throughout the project lifecycle. Ensure project communications are formalized as required, including running meetings, distributing minutes, formal letters to client, contractors or others, formal progress reports as required by the project execution plans. Regularly report project progress to senior management and/or the client. Project Controls In concert with supporting staff, or independently, produce cost estimates and schedules. Monitor/track schedule and budget performance in a disciplined basis. Set up and maintain project control systems (utilizing JDS inhouse systems). Procurement & Logistics Manage contract and procurement processes (RFQs, RFPs, etc.) for direct contracting and or acting as agent for our clients. Manage logistics for the site. Compensation Hourly compensation based on hours of work performed with annual discretionary bonus an…

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