Electrical Project Manager

Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We also develop custom, turnkey solutions to help reach the desired outcomes. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal.

WE BUILD FOR LIFE.

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork and we are committed to ensuring that our teams have everything they need to succeed. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do and, as a result, our award-winning safety culture has a record that’s well above industry standards.

At Modern Niagara, you will work alongside values-driven, safety-conscious, and high-impact teams in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Here, your knowledge, skills, and excellent service will help ensure that the buildings that make up Canada’s infrastructure fulfill the needs they were set out to meet.

Modern Niagara is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and is a recipient of SMACNA‘s Safety Excellence Award Program (SSEAP) – Canada and the Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) Magazine’s Gold Winner for Canada’s Safest Employers Award in the Building and Construction category and Excellence Winner for Canada’s Best Health + Safety Culture Award as well as Canada’s Best Health + Safety Leader Award.

We currently have an opportunity for an Electrical Project Manager to join our team in Vaughan.

The mission of an Electrical Project Manager is to manage the budget, schedule and work closely with the foremen, subcontractors and vendors to deliver a successful project. One of the key success factors is to assist Project Delivery teams with successfully completing projects within the planning process. The Project Manager focuses on reaching the overall financial goals of their projects, in collaboration with the Operations Team.

The Electrical Project Manager role encompasses a wide range of duties which include but are not necessarily limited to the following: budgets, managing labour, purchasing, administration, cost control, supplier and subcontractor coordination, communication, scheduling, pricing of change orders, financial management of projects, establishing and managing client relationships. Project Managers are viewed as the project leads and have a direct line of communication with General Contractors and owners; the expectation is to promote all faculties of Modern Niagara (specifically Services) to clients for the complete building life annual cycle.

Overview of Responsibilities

• Participate in Estimating turnover meetings and Preconstruction meetings as required.
• Manage labour on assigned projects with the support and direction of the Electrical Operations Manager.
• Complete monthly financial forecasting reports for all assigned projects and attend Project Status Review (PSR) meetings.
• Review contracts for scope, maintain productivity, quality, and costs and ensure the projects are completed in a manner that supports the overall strategic and operational objectives of the company.
• Participate in client and construction meetings as required and disseminate information to our work force and subcontractors.
• Manage all change order pricing in Accubid database.
• Develop strong working relationships with the field, Estimating and Operations teams.
• Willing to advance both professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and seminars, review professional publications, establish a personal network of industry peers, and be highly motivated to benchmark state-of-the-art practices.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a project management role within electrical construction.
• Ability to interpret site and building plans and specifications.
• Can successfully prioritize tasks based on demand and deadlines.
• Results and solutions-oriented individual.
• Experienced with, and a willingness to train and mentor team members.
• A track record that clearly demonstrates effective leadership when interacting with multiple external clients.
• Working knowledge of contract terms and conditions.
• Working knowledge of the IBEW.
• Fundamental understanding of project financial controls.
• Ability to communicate professionally and effectively.
• Ability to work autonomously with frequent travel to site locations.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office. 
• General understanding of QA / QC as well as Health and Safety practices / requirements.
• Experience in transit, waster water or power is an asset.
• Committed team player with excellent interpersonal skills.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

At Modern Niagara, we recognize the value of fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and are committed to eliminating barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGTBQIA+, people with disabilities, and new immigrants) in the construction industry. Our DEI vision is to build an organization where everyone has access to the same opportunities, experience equitable outcomes, and can thrive and reach their full potential.

We value the diversity of the people we hire and serve. Modern Niagara is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise us so that suitable accommodations can be made. We can be reached at careers@modernniagara.com.