Lead Project Manager/Project Director

GHD

Senior Project Manager leading GHD's involvement in large-scale infrastructure projects. Responsible for project delivery from early development through construction support in compliance-heavy environments.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeOttawa • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as Project Manager or Project Director on major projects, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and to agreed technical and quality standards.
Act as GHD’s Senior Project Manager / Project Director for bids and awarded packages.
Lead multiple concurrent bid packages and delivery planning activities across rolling procurement schedules.
Support and oversee multidisciplinary project teams, manage interfaces between project phases and delivery teams to ensure integrated and constructible design solutions.
Establish and manage project governance, scope, schedule, cost, risk, and change management frameworks.
Support clients through procurement activities, including tender documentation, technical evaluations, and construction support.
Provide a single point of accountability for GHD delivery across all assigned remediation projects.
Serve as primary interface between GHD, owners, and construction partners, ensuring alignment on strategy, scope, resourcing, and delivery approach.
Support owners through oversight, reporting, and compliance requirements.
Manage coordination across multiple stakeholders in complex environments.
Maintain clear communication pathways and issue resolution mechanisms across all parties.
Provide integrated leadership across GHD’s typical delivery scopes, including engineering for utilities and infrastructure, environmental compliance, permitting, stakeholder engagement, health and industrial hygiene management, and quality management.
Oversee feasibility, concept, reference design, and detailed design phases.
Ensure designs are constructible, risk-informed, and aligned with expected construction methodologies.
Manage uncertainty, risk and associated mitigation strategies.
Ensure alignment with applicable codes, guidelines, best practices and owner standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12-15+ years of experience delivering large infrastructure, or federal/public-sector projects.
Strong understanding of how hydropower infrastructure is planned, designed, procured, and constructed.
Experience working across multiple offices, regions, and time zones.
Demonstrated experience with remote, northern, or logistically complex projects.
Strong understanding of owner-led delivery models, compliance obligations, and public accountability.
Experience working alongside construction-focused partners where consulting, engineering, and construction roles are clearly differentiated.
Proven experience managing complex, multidisciplinary projects or programs.
Proven ability to lead multi-package, multi-stakeholder programs.
Strong project controls mindset: planning, scope integration, budget and cost, schedule, risk, and reporting.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, evolving project environments.
Strong client-facing, partner-facing, and executive communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and priorities.
Experience with a range of delivery models (e.g., Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, EPCM, Alliance, P3) is an asset.
Degree in Engineering or related discipline.
Professional engineering designation.
Bilingual (French and English), spoken and written is an asset.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementrisk managementbudget managementschedule managementscope managementchange managementengineering designconstruction methodologiescompliance managementstakeholder engagement

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationclient-facing skillsproblem-solvingorganizational skillscollaborationadaptabilitystrategic thinkingissue resolutionmulti-tasking

Certifications

professional engineering designationdegree in engineering