Are you a proven construction Project Manager who thrives on delivering complex mechanical projects? Do you enjoy bringing teams together, solving challenges, and driving projects from planning through successful completion?
If you're energized by a fast-paced environment where safety, quality, schedule, and budget all matter, take the leap and make your mark at Plan Group!
As our Project Manager, Mechanical Construction, you'll take ownership of commercial and institutional projects, leading project teams and working closely with clients, consultants, subcontractors, and site teams to deliver exceptional results.
In this role, you will:
- Lead mechanical construction projects from planning through completion, establishing key milestones and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, and within budget.
- Champion a strong Health & Safety culture, providing visible leadership and reinforcing safe work practices across your projects.
- Manage project schedules, forecasts, costs, and work-in-progress reporting in alignment with Plan Group's T.I.M.E. efficiency program.
- Stay ahead of project challenges by proactively identifying schedule risks, cost pressures, and potential roadblocks, and driving solutions with the project team.
- Monitor critical path activities, short-interval planning, project forecasting, and overall progress to keep projects moving forward.
- Lead pre-construction and project start-up activities, including estimate turnover, kick-off meetings, subcontractor selection, material-handling strategies, risk management, and productivity planning.
- Partner with site supervision to monitor labour and manpower requirements, remove obstacles, and support successful field execution.
- Oversee project controls, including document management, change orders, equipment and material deliveries, coordination, site meetings, and progress reporting.
- Lead, coach, and develop project team members through regular feedback, mentorship, and training.
- Build trusted relationships with clients, general contractors, engineers, consultants, and trade partners, helping create successful project outcomes and long-term partnerships.
- Look for opportunities to improve productivity, mitigate risk, and strengthen overall project performance.
Qualification for this role include:
- Post-secondary education in Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline, combined with a minimum of five years of construction project management experience.
- Experience successfully managing mechanical commercial and/or institutional construction projects.
- Trade experience is considered a strong asset.
- The ability to read, analyze, and interpret architectural, mechanical, and electrical construction drawings.
- Strong knowledge of project forecasting, scheduling, cost control, change management, and construction documentation.
- Experience with estimating or change-order software such as Accubid Change Order or Enterprise Change Order is an asset.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, with experience using scheduling platforms such as Microsoft Project and/or Primavera considered an asset.
- A Project Management Professional (PMP) designation, or progress toward one, is considered an asset.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to lead teams and collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.