Senior Project Manager

LXA, a client-side project delivery partner, has an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Senior Project Manager to join our team and lead ground-breaking projects across various diverse sectors.

• Lead Project Team through close collaboration to achieve design, technical and financial success
• Collaborate with partners and senior team to prepare, issue, and manage compliance plans to align project goals including budget, deliverables and schedule. Gains agreement with the senior team for labour allocation. Chairs weekly team meetings to address variances from the project plan.
• Administer internal control procedures with Project Accountant including billing, collections, percentage complete, expense management, and year-end activities. Analyses project reports and proactively manages the profitability of a project.
• Participate actively in project design and technical discussions and decision making, leading the project and technical team.
• Communicate actively through chairing weekly meetings, issuing meeting minutes and accurate project record keeping and sharing project information and correspondence.
• Manage owner/client relationships and expectations to allow the team to work effectively, efficiently and collaboratively.
• Actively lead new business and marketing efforts including responses to marketing requests and maintenance of firm relationships, including the preparation of fees.
• Initiate, monitor and maintain project schedule and work plan including schedule of meetings and presentations.
• Schedule and lead internal team weekly project meetings; develop the meeting agenda and project status update.
• Initiate, monitor and maintain project plan and financial performance of projects.
• Initiate and maintain Client Agreements, Sub-Consultant Agreements and requests for additional services.
• Monitor scope for contract compliance and potential additional services and issue letters as needed.
• Actively engage in project risk management through close.
• Support the partners in wider office duties such as weekly resource meetings, weekly management meetings etc.
• Contribute to the development of standards, policies, and procedures.
• Protect LXA from financial and legal risk.

• Educated to degree level in a relevant construction related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience or equivalent knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead project teams and manage project schedule, budget and program.
• Client facing, strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, MS Project, Adobe Suite.