Intermediate Project Manager

Position Overview

Calian is seeking an Intermediate Project Manager for an upcoming project.

Responsibilities

• Planning and coordinating project management activities including financial planning aspects
• Planning and organizing a project management office
• Giving briefings on progress and concerns of project
• Coordinating and preparing documentation in response to scheduled and unscheduled reports, returns and observations to update management of project progress
• Planning and coordinating the activities of project personnel, DND internal clients, Contractors and other support providers
• Preparing formal SOWs, work breakdown structures and compliance charts
• Producing draft plans for incorporation into the Project Implementation Plan
• Preparing draft evaluation plans, criteria, and evaluation schedules
• Developing, planning, analyzing, evaluating and prioritizing deliverables and requirements
• Defining and documenting development team objectives
• Determining and obtaining budgetary requirements, composition, roles, responsibilities, and terms of reference for the Technical Authority (TA)
• Planning the activities of a project team within scheduled time and cost parameters
• Monitoring the design, implementation and operations start up of the project against established goals, objectives and milestones
• Reporting progress of the project on an ongoing basis and at scheduled points in the life cycle
• Meeting with stakeholders and other Project Managers and stating problems in a form capable of being solved
• Preparing plans, charts, tables and diagrams to assist in analyzing or displaying problems
• Formulating and managing project plans by defining deliverables, identifying key milestones, reviewing project progress, and engaging in ongoing risk management
• Coordinating project team(s) in order to meet project objectives for content, quality, costs, and schedules
• Ensuring the TA is provided with timely and accurate project information and status updates
• Developing project control and reporting procedures and managing changes in operational plan
• Conducting post project reviews/lessons learned
• Contributing to the organization's strategic and business planning initiatives (for example, identifying strategic goals and objectives and implementing initiatives to achieve them, Policy Development, Standards Development and Program Review)
• Recognizing and recommending opportunities to combine professional resources through partnering arrangements (for example, multi-disciplinary practices) to the TA
• Coordinate, draft and prepare for signature formal project documents and reports

Qualifications

• Must hold a valid Secret – Level II Clearance with the Government of Canada
• Must be fluent in English
• 5+ years of experience in the direct management of a project
• 2+ years of experience delivering one of the following equipment classes or systems: Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Systems, Ballistic Clothing, or Combat Engineer Equipment
• 5+ years of experience in any two of the following project management phases: Project Identification, Options Analysis, Project Approval (Definition), Project Approval (Implementation), or Project Closeout
• 2+ years of experience preparing any combination of the following document types while working in or with the Federal Government of Canada: Statements of Operational Requirement (SOR), Statements of Capability Deficiency (SOCD), or Statements of Work (SOW)