Assistant Project Architect Jobs in Calgary, AB (NOW HIRING)

At Clark Builders, we're more than a construction company - we're purpose driven partners committed to building stronger communities. Serving institutional, commercial, and industrial clients across Western and Northern Canada since 1974, we bring a relationship-based approach, deep expertise, and a commitment to safety, innovation, and sustainability to everything we do. As part of the Turner Construction family, we offer the personalized culture of a local team with the strength of a global leader. Learn more about our Purpose and what drives us by visiting our Who We Are page.

Position Description:

The Senior Project Manager oversees multiple and/or large scope construction projects and teams; managing the technical, administrative and training support for project development, with an emphasis on project engineering in collaboration with the Operations team.

The position will initially be based out of our main office in Edmonton, Alberta, with the role later shifting to a project site located near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple or large project scopes, and serve as resource to Operations teams, offer project management and other project management related insight, knowledge, direction, and support.
• Perform constructability reviews during Preconstruction and work with Preconstruction team to prepare estimates for multiple assigned projects.
• Participate and lead project tenders, bid levelling, and scope reviews, and award meetings.
• Oversee execution of client contracts.
• Attend and lead Operational Review Meetings (ORM) and Owner Architect Contractor (OAC) meetings for assigned projects.
• Engage, communicate, and negotiate with Architects and Engineers on topics important to construction industry and impacts to projects.
• Develop and review assigned projects' Project Execution Plan and Quality Control (QC) Plans.
• Active leadership in each project's start-up and maintain general overview of project procedures throughout project.
• Attend and actively participate in project staff resourcing meetings.
• Ensure projects maintain strict adherence to safety, ethics, and compliance requirements at all times.
• Conduct weekly reviews and ensure adherence to Project Schedule for assigned projects. Develop schedule mitigation plans where work performed is not conforming to schedule requirements.
• Lead and review project forecasting and attend forecasting meetings with project teams across each assigned project.
• Conduct regular jobsite visits, and attend jobsite meetings.
• Assist with risk management and lead in the development of Risk Registers and Risk Mitigation planning.
• Manage QC inspections to ensure installations are per contract documents and in accordance with approved shop drawings.
• Monitor and assist in development, training, and evaluation of project staff across projects.
• Remain current on Clark Builders value-add services and manage jobsite rollout of new technologies throughout assigned projects.
• Collect best practices or good examples and formats for various procedures or methods, including scheduling, budgeting and QC Plans from jobsite visits and share across projects.
• Foster open exchange of information and regularly lead meetings to discuss operational excellence (e.g., budgeting, QC, etc.), current challenges, relevant issues, lessons learned, and lean initiatives.
• Focus on continuous improvement efforts for content within procedures manuals; expand new content and procedures for areas in need of attention.
• Ensure each project maintains up-to-date Launch and Closeout Boards; review closeout procedures with each project, and present and report on project status during Launch and Closeout meetings.
• Lead creation of and make available various detailed project checklists with emphasis on risk management.
• Take lead of off-site document storage and retrieval for each assigned project.
• Attend conferences and industry seminars to gather information on new technologies or new systems to review impact to projects.
• Conduct timely performance and development discussions with direct reports and complete related documentation. Ensure supervisors across assigned projects engage in regular performance and development discussions with their direct reports.
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree, Diploma, or Certificate in Civil Engineering, construction, or related program from a recognized technical college with a minimum 8 years of building construction leadership required or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Prior experience with large industrial or campus sized projects (>$150m)
• Excellent knowledge of construction cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing, and engineering principles and techniques, and accounting procedures
• Advanced knowledge of various construction methods and materials, their characteristics, installation procedures and tolerances
• Management and leadership experience
• Excellent presentation delivery, verbal, and written communication skills
• Understand continuous improvement methods and tools
• Possess solid problem solving and analytical capabilities, familiar with basic lean culture and concepts
• Advanced project management skills, able to manage concurrent project and prioritize responsibilities for self and team
• Approachable and effectively interact with all employee levels and management
• Proficient computer skills and Microsoft suite of applications