Senior Construction Project Manager

The ideal candidate brings an entrepreneurial drive, strong interpersonal skills, and a proven track record of successfully delivering multi-family residential projects and mentoring project delivery teams .

What you’ll do

• Independently deliver multiple concurrent Stelumar Communities projects on time and on budget, ensuring company processes, procedures, and policies are followed throughout.
• Develop and maintain the project cost plan, cash flow forecast, and detailed schedule; track committed costs, anticipated costs, and cost-to-complete; identify variances early and recommend corrective action, with reports reviewed monthly by senior leadership.
• Prepare and progressively refine project estimates from conceptual and schematic stages through design development, tender, and hard-bid, ensuring estimate accuracy improves at each project gate.
• Review, price, and negotiate change orders and contract amendments; manage contingency draw down and maintain a current view of forecast final cost.
• Lead contract negotiation, award, and administration — including solicitation, evaluation, and selection of consultants and sub-trades — ensuring compliance with company procedures and policies.
• Serve as a key advisor to senior leadership on project risk, strategy, and portfolio-level decision-making across Stelumar Communities' development pipeline.
• Solicit, level, and analyze trade and supplier pricing; prepare bid comparison summaries and award recommendations supported by scope clarifications and pricing assumptions.
• Drive design development and preconstruction: lead value engineering, peer and constructability reviews, and the construction and traffic management plans; ensure consultants' deadlines are met for SPA, permits, tender, and IFC.
• Review and analyze drawings and specifications, ensuring clear communication to the project team, site staff, and trades.
• Establish and implement quality assurance and quality control programs; benchmark project costs against historical data and industry comparables, and contribute to a unit-rate and assembly-cost database to improve estimating accuracy on future projects.
• Lead, mentor, and develop project staff through ongoing performance management , acting as a senior point of escalation for complex project and site issues.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What you bring

• Post-secondary education in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, related field, or suitable combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of progressive experience and success in leading residential or commercial construction projects, including experience mentoring or supervising project managers and coordinator s
• In-depth knowledge and experience of pre-fabricat ed construction methodologies, specifically engineered lumber and building science applications.
• In-depth knowledge of Ontario Building Code, safety legislation, and Ministry of Labour guidelines/procedures.
• Experience in procurement of construction sub-contracts on a project level basis.
• Knowledge of municipal planning by-laws , project permitting process, and zoning
• Ability to generate, review, and administer complex subcontracts and purchase orders, ensuring all risks are mitigated and opportunities are identified.
• Knowledge of Tarion, warranty processes, and construction performance guidelines
• Understanding of procure to pay process.
• Valid Class G driver’s license with the ability to travel as required to various job sites.