Project Manager

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $45.46 - $65.35 / hour
Job Summary

Are you intrigued with the challenge of planning and delivering community-based facilities and capital projects within health care? Do you love managing the full scope of small to intermediate sized tenant improvements (TI) construction projects in a creative way in a community that is customer focused? If so, bring your knowledge and abilities in project management, relationship building, and leadership skills to a role where you will strive to make a difference to patients, families and care givers.

 

Position Highlights

 

As a Project Manager, you will work on important projects in the Fraser Health Facilities Management/Real Estate Planning & Projects portfolio. We have small to medium-sized projects where you will use your unique talents to tackle administrative, client and technical challenges in a collaborative and innovative way with many diverse partners.

 

Your diverse background in project management will prepare you to use your creative skills in the planning, design and construction of a wide variety of health care infrastructure and facilities projects.

 

We are a team composed of dedicated professionals who thrive in a collaborative culture. We support learning, customer service, stewardship, communication and performance.

 

Build on your education and experience as you:

• Use project management methodologies and tools to manage facilities projects including the preparation of project charters, confirmation of project scope, developing project plans, budgets and schedules.
• Provide leadership as the accountable project owner by liaising with various associates and conveying timely information with respect to the project status, ongoing issues, progress updates, challenges and opportunities.
• Lead and manage drawings and specifications for projects produced by outside architectural and engineering consultants.
• Provide recommendations to the leadership team to mitigate cost overruns, maintain adherence to allocated budgets and timelines, and ensure delivery of a successful project.
• Provide support to leasing team with documentation review pertaining to construction projects and liaise with landlord representatives for necessary approvals, site handover and project delivery.
• Develop and oversee project business plans for identified projects through conducting feasibility studies, solution development, identifying functional requirements, and scope and design concepts. You will assess opportunities by reviewing budgets and implementation schedules to ensure business plans are consistent with user needs and expectations.

To join our team, ideally, we are looking for you to have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a construction/project management related field
• Five to seven years’ recent related experience managing, leading and directing facilities projects in a complex institutional environment
• Project Management Professional Designation is an asset

*An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered

 

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with strong organizational, technical and client management skills. You have the ability to develop project budgets, construction estimates and have experience in space planning, consultant and contractor procurement, and construction management.

 

This is a Regular Full Time opportunity located at Central City in Surrey, BC.

 

Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

The Project Manager is responsible for overseeing and supporting the planning, design and/or implementation of assigned mid-range facilities projects of moderate scope and complexity across Fraser Health (FH), including project planning, project management, communications, and contract management. Oversees assigned staff and provides leadership by directing work teams, contractors and consultants as needed on a project-by-project basis.
ResponsibilitiesQualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Engineering, or a related field together with five (5) to seven (7) years' recent related experience managing, leading and directing facilities projects in a complex institutional environment, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

• Knowledge of capital project planning and implementation processes including design, construction and procurement within current standards, codes, bylaws and regulations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles and methodologies.
• Ability to interpret construction drawings and construction specifications.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage planning, design and construction projects simultaneously.
• Ability to supervise and provide direction to team members.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, plan, organize, prioritize and implement projects in a timely manner.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a dynamic project environment with changing priorities.
• Demonstrated attention to detail.
• Ability to operate related equipment including related software applications.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

 

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

 

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

 

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

 

Together, we are the heart of health care.

 

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