Safety Assurance Project Manager (Supporting the GO Expansion Program)
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Safety Assurance Project Manager (Supporting the GO Expansion Program)
Job Description
- (Internal Title- Project Management III)
- The Safety Assurance Project Manager will work within the Design and Systems Integration team within the GO Expansion Program Team
- The role will comprise of leading the implementation of Safety Assurance Requirements across GO Expansion to ensure full compliance is achieved by all Project Delivery Teams
- Work with the wider Metrolinx business to up-skill the wider GO Expansion teams and ensure safety is prioritized across all projects
- Develop and agree sufficient document templates for multiple Safety Assurance deliverables and ensure these are briefed out across the GO Expansion Program to all Project Delivery Teams
- Manage the production, review and issue of Safety Assurance deliverables from all GO Expansion Projects
- Investigate safety assurance status, processes and procedures used by various projects within the GO Expansion program
- Capture and share client needs by building strong relationships and generating confidence through engineering excellence with a commitment to satisfactory outcomes
- Help develop legacy training programs in Safety Assurance
- Liaise with wider GO Expansion teams to ensure consistency and quality of deliverables across all areas of the program
- Responsible for managing, fostering, and maintaining senior level client relationships
- Identification and escalation of Program level risks and issues that impact on delivery
- Facilitate a project environment which is inclusive, diverse and celebrates our differences
- Adopt a high performing culture open to constructive challenge, seeking continual improvement and implementing lessons learnt
- Demonstrate senior leadership and core competencies at a high level of development
- The ability to engage and motivate others. To act as a role model and inspire others
- Ability to anticipate and forecast the key risks and opportunities available to the Program to ensure the core vision is achieved
- Respectfully listens to others and considers all views presented
- Puts team success above own interests.
- Recognizes and understands the Clients priorities and holds the ability to adapt to requirements
- Coordinates workstreams and establishes actions plans with key stakeholders for implementation
- Execute and manage the assigned project or project elements from inception through to completion
- Establish new project plans in consultation with stakeholders, including clients
- Assign the human and material resources required to complete the project successfully
- Formulate a resource allocation strategy and utilize this to distribute work and budgets
- Authorize work management and project delivery control per the project plan
- Monitor project staff performance to ensure excellence and adherence to specified deadlines
- Review and ensure adherence to the overall scope, schedule, and budget
- Supervise, track, and report on performance against project requirements, schedule, milestones, budgets, quality measures, and KPIs, and address issues with corrective actions as appropriate
- Evaluate project effectiveness by consulting with clients and project staff
Working Conditions
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Office-based
Qualifications
- Experience:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in Project Management and managing the systems assurance on complex major railway infrastructure projects
- Broad Rail Engineering experience
- Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent with professional work experience in a relevant engineering or project management discipline
- Licenses OR Certifications:
- Holding a recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Skills and Competencies:
- Strong project manager level leadership skills to manage and motivate program delivery teams delivering high risk, complex projects
- Deep awareness of safety issues in an operational and project delivery environment
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
- Proficient in Project Management software
- Thorough understanding of prevailing Project Management methods
- Expert knowledge of tools and metrics needed to evaluate project performance
- Strong ability to identify and minimize risks in advance
- Capability to detect, capitalize, and be sensitive to others' strengths
- Strong supervision, delegation, and capacity development abilities
- Detailed experience in effectively leading mid-sized multi-disciplinary project teams
- Competent to perceive and ameliorate conflict and tension
- Ability to arrange priorities and escalate competing risks to meet deadlines with minimum input from leadership
- Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities
- Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving information (written and verbal)
- Expert ability to work collaboratively and independently in a structured, disciplined, technology-driven environment
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