Description
About GCM Consultants:
With more than 350 professionals across Canada, GCM Consultants is a recognized leader in heavy‑industry engineering. For over 30 years, GCM has been pushing boundaries by delivering innovative projects and building lasting partnerships based on trust, expertise, and quality.
Why Join GCM Consultants?
Your Role and Impact
The Vice President - Project Management is responsible for all project management, project control, and estimation activities at GCM. He/She is responsible for the organization's project management processes. He/She provides close supervision of operations, while actively contributing to the strategic vision and development of the organization.
This role requires a leader who:
Main Responsibilities:
Leadership and strategy:
Candidate Profile:
Education:
Type : Permanent full time
Available offices : Montréal, Varennes, Lévis, Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Rouyn-Noranda, Amos or Rivière-du-Loup
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With more than 350 professionals across Canada, GCM Consultants is a recognized leader in heavy‑industry engineering. For over 30 years, GCM has been pushing boundaries by delivering innovative projects and building lasting partnerships based on trust, expertise, and quality.
Why Join GCM Consultants?
- To play a key role in transforming project delivery at GCM.
- To directly influence quality, performance, and client satisfaction.
- To work in a people‑focused, innovative, agile, and ambitious organization.
Your Role and Impact
The Vice President - Project Management is responsible for all project management, project control, and estimation activities at GCM. He/She is responsible for the organization's project management processes. He/She provides close supervision of operations, while actively contributing to the strategic vision and development of the organization.
This role requires a leader who:
- Establishes a clear vision for the project management group, consistent with corporate objectives, company values, and project execution processes.
- Knows how to manage a team of senior managers to achieve corporate objectives.
- Has demonstrated the ability to improve project management processes.
- Mobilizes teams and ensures that execution is aligned with strategic objectives.
- Is credible as a project manager, able to get directly involved in projects when necessary.
- Works closely with the VP of Engineering in a “co-leadership” mode to ensure harmonized, efficient, and consistent project execution.
Main Responsibilities:
Leadership and strategy:
- Be responsible for project management processes and tools.
- Work closely with the VP of Engineering and other members of the leadership team to ensure high‑performance project execution (delivery), including processes and team alignment.
- Actively contribute to the development and deployment of the strategic plan.
- Establish the objectives, priorities, and action plans of the Project Management team in alignment with corporate objectives.
- Implement, improve, and ensure adherence to project management standards, processes, and tools.
- Oversee overall project performance: budgets, schedules, quality, risks, and profitability.
- Ensure the availability, optimization, and development of resources in project management, estimating, and project controls.
- Act as the primary point of resolution when project management practices are not followed.
- Work closely with the VP of Engineering to ensure integrated, smooth, and coherent delivery aligned with the corporate vision, mission, objectives, and values.
- Align leadership practices, processes, and expectations within the Project Management team.
- Establish enhanced collaboration mechanisms to support multidisciplinary projects.
- Guide, support, and develop the skills of Directors in Project Management, Project Controls, and Estimating.
- Oversee hiring, team growth, and workforce planning in line with business needs and objectives.
- Foster a positive, engaging work environment aligned with corporate values.
- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, health & safety requirements, and quality standards.
- Act as a key contributor in managing organizational change.
- Guarantee the accuracy of data, monitoring reports, and critical operational information.
- Oversee the commercial aspects of large‑scale projects ($500M and above).
- Directly supervise Major Project Directors.
Candidate Profile:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent (Master’s degree is an asset).
- Minimum of 5 years of experience managing multidisciplinary teams.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in multidisciplinary project management.
- Experience in consulting engineering, an asset.
- Project management experience in maintenance projects and major capital investment projects.
- Field/plant experience, an asset.
- PMP certification, an asset.
- Excellent understanding of project management processes and engineering project challenges.
- Strategic vision combined with a strong ability to deliver practical, tangible results.
- Inspiring leadership and a collaborative approach.
- Demonstrated ability to anticipate issues, prioritize effectively, and respond quickly.
- Strong communication, presentation, and client‑facing skills.
- Bilingual in French and English, spoken and written.
- Good business sense and the ability to work effectively in a partnership‑based model with clients.
Type : Permanent full time
Available offices : Montréal, Varennes, Lévis, Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Rouyn-Noranda, Amos or Rivière-du-Loup
