Project Manager

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If you have a limitation that may impact your performance at any steps of the assessment process (such as during a written test or an interview), you may request an accommodation. Assessment accommodations are designed to remove barriers, and to ensure that candidates with limitations can fully demonstrate their abilities. Should you wish to be accommodated, please direct your inquiry to the contact identified at the bottom of this poster. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

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You will be required to show how you demonstrate the essential qualifications (i.e. experience) by answering online screening questions. You must provide concrete and detailed examples to clearly demonstrate how you meet the education and experience requirements listed in the essential qualifications section. The screening board cannot make any assumptions about your experience. It is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current duties.

Information on your described skills, experience, etc. provided in the screening questions should be supported by your resume.

Failure to provide the above information in the format required may result in your application being rejected from the process.

Duties

Successful candidates will work in a multi-disciplinary team environment located in the Pacific Region and will manage multimillion dollar real property projects such as;
• Sinclair Centre Redevelopment Project which will likely be delivered through a Public-Private-Partnership methodology
• Highways, secure facilities, laboratories, Esquimalt Graving Dock, contaminated sites etc.

Work environment

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Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) helps the Government of Canada serve Canadians. With a strong focus on quality customer service, we provide innovative common services such as real estate and building management, purchasing, banking, pay and pensions, and translation to other government departments, agencies, and boards. By providing these centralized services to departments and agencies, we enable them to focus on what they do best: providing their programs and services to Canadians.

At PSPC, our approach to inclusion is simple: we are committed to achieving a competent and representative workforce that reflects the diversity of the Canadian population we serve, and strive to create a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive environment that enables collaboration and innovation. When you succeed, we all succeed.

Intent of the process

The intent of the process is to initially staff 2 indeterminate/permanent positions for the Sinclair Centre redevelopment project. This project will focus on enhancing heritage, on sustainability and Urban Integration. The results of this process may also be used to staff same or similar positions for future vacancies of various tenures, and could require different security clearances within Public Service and Procurement Canada in the Pacific Region.

Positions to be filled: 2

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Occupational Certification:
• Registered as a professional engineer in Canada or as a Professional Architect in Canada.

Experience:
• *Significant experience in managing complex **real property projects.

• Experience in managing projects involving new construction, renovation or repair of real property infrastructure.

• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams in a real property environment.

*Significant experience will be evaluated based on the performance of complex activities in a wide variety of situations over an extended period of time.

** Real property projects are defined as new construction, renovations, remediation for buildings, structures, improvements, and other utilities on, above, or below the surface of the land.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

Competencies:
• Demonstrating integrity and respect
• Thinking things through
• Working effectively with others
• Showing initiative and being action oriented
• Client Service – Level 1

For more information on the Client Service Competencies, please see the following link: https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/sc-cs/csc-eng.html

Abilities:
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally.

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Asset Qualifications:
• Experience in managing multi-discipline real property projects with high degrees of complexity and with special focus on Public Private Partnerships (P3) or alternative project delivery such as Design-Build (DB), Design-Build-Finance (DBF), Design-Build-Finance-Maintain (DBFM).

• Experience in financing, insurances, progress payments on alternative form of delivery projects.

• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder, high profile (i.e. characterized by exceptional public visibility, media attention, political sensitivity, relative importance, critical schedule, etc.), major accommodation and real property projects with large project teams and numerous tenants with varying requirements.

• Experience incorporating and advancing sustainability objectives and targets (e.g., LEED Platinum and Gold, carbon neutrality, green technology)

• Experience managing projects with a heritage component.

• Experience working with Indigenous groups in real property projects.

• Experience managing projects related to highway or bridge infrastructure.

• Experience managing projects in a heavy civil/marine or industrial environment.

• Experience managing projects in a secure facility environment, such as prisons or border crossings.

• Experience managing office or special-purpose building projects, such as fit-up, major renovations or new construction.

In support of achieving a diversified workforce, consideration may be given to candidates, who, at the time of application, self-declare* as belonging to one of the following designated Employment Equity groups: Women, Indigenous (Aboriginal) Peoples, Persons with Disabilities and Members of Visible Minorities.

* We therefore encourage you to self-declare during the online application process by selecting the appropriate box under the Employment Equity section.

For further details, please refer to the “Other information” section.

Information on employment equity

Conditions of employment

• Various security clearance requirements: Reliability Status or Secret

• Willingness and ability, in the future, to undergo and maintain additional security clearance such as; secret and secret enhance, in order to meet government and clients’ needs.

• Occupational Certification must be maintained throughout employment.

• Possession of a valid driver’s license OR personal mobility to the extent normally associated with the possession of a valid driver’s license, within the limits of the Treasury Board Policy.

• Willing and able to work on projects in active and hazardous environments including construction sites throughout B.C. and Yukon.

• Willing and able to work on projects in secure environments such as prison facilities, Canada-U.S. border crossings, etc.

NOTE:
1. Those selected must meet and maintain the above conditions of employment throughout their employment.

2. The conditions of employment may vary depending on the position being staffed.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and to make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is the candidate’s responsibility to provide any changes to their personal information to the contact indicated on this job advertisement.

You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position. Other qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. Some essential and other qualifications will be assessed through your application. It is your responsibility to provide appropriate examples that illustrate how you meet each qualification. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.

Reference checks may be sought.

An interview may be administered.

A test may be administered.

You may be asked to provide additional information for the asset qualifications.

You must provide proof of your occupational certification.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.

A random and/or top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

Acknowledgment of receipt of applications will not be sent.

Public service employees found qualified in this process may be considered for acting, assignment, deployment or secondment.

We thank all those who apply.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.