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Are you an experienced Project Manager looking to lead impactful projects that shape communities? At R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited, we’re seeking a driven, performance-oriented Project Manager to join our Water & Wastewater Vertical Infrastructure team. This is your opportunity to take ownership of complex projects and guide them from concept to completion.

Location Options: Mississauga, Guelph, Collingwood, Hamilton, Orangeville, or Woodstock

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Lead Meaningful Projects: Oversee the planning, design, and construction of municipal and private sector water and wastewater infrastructure.
• Flexibility: Choose from multiple office locations and enjoy occasional travel to collaborate with other teams.
• Career Growth: Work alongside senior leaders, mentor junior professionals, and develop your strategic and technical expertise.

What You’ll Do

As a Project Manager, you’ll take the lead on delivering high-quality water and wastewater infrastructure projects while supporting and guiding a talented team of engineers and technicians. Your role will include:

• Managing Projects & Clients: Oversee public sector water and wastewater projects, ensuring timelines, budgets, and client expectations are met.
• Driving Project Success: Prepare and track budgets and schedules, and ensure projects move seamlessly through design, tender, and construction phases.
• Leading Design & Review: Direct and coordinate the development of design drawings, reports, and cost estimates, while maintaining quality standards.
• Building Relationships: Liaise with clients, contractors, and sub-consultants to foster strong partnerships and smooth project delivery.
• Ensuring Quality: Implement QA/QC practices and review deliverables to maintain excellence.
• Collaborating Across Teams: Work with multi-office and multi-disciplinary teams to deliver innovative solutions.
• Supporting Construction: Provide guidance to inspectors and administrators in both field and office settings.
• Preparing Key Documents: Develop proposals, reports, permit applications, and environmental assessments.
• Navigating Approvals: Coordinate with regulatory agencies to secure necessary approvals.
• Mentoring Future Talent: Support the growth of junior and intermediate professionals through coaching and development.
• Continuous Learning: Work under senior leadership to enhance your project management and technical expertise.

What We’re Looking For

• Education: Engineering degree in a related discipline.
• Experience: Ideally 10+ years in water and wastewater infrastructure.
• Skills: Strong analytical and organizational abilities, multi-tasking, and strategic project oversight.
• Knowledge: Municipal/provincial approval processes, industry standards, and best practices.
• Bonus Points For:

• Experience with Linear municipal infrastructure design, contract administration and client relationships
• Experience with AutoCAD, Civil 3D, BIM, Revit, MicroStation
• Hydraulic modeling tools (WaterCAD, InfoWater, SewerCAD)
• MS Office and MS Project

Salary Range: $125,000 - $140,000

The final compensation offered will be based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and market conditions.

Position Type: New Position

Why Choose Burnside?

Are you interested in working for an employer with a 5-decade track record of building a great reputation both internally with their staff and externally with their clients? The Burnside team is a group of colleagues that work together to provide value and service to our clients, while extending care to each other. We know that our employees are our greatest asset, and thus we strive to provide a positive work/life balance.

We offer:

• A collaborative culture where friendship, honesty and respect are part of our core values and practices.
• Flexible working hours and office locations, including work at home opportunities.
• A competitive compensation and benefits package.
• RSP company matching plan.
• Career growth and professional development opportunities.
• Potential for performance-driven bonusing.
• Active social committees
• A welcoming, positive, and inclusive work environment

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to valuing diversity in the workplace and we welcome resumes from all qualified candidates. Burnside will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the entire recruitment, assessment, and selection process, as required.  If you are a person with a disability and require an accommodation during these processes, please contact our Human Resources department.

Company Profile – More about us:

Founded in 1970, R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited is a growing values-driven Canadian employee-owned, led and operated Civil and Environmental Engineering Consulting Firm with over 450 professional, technical and support staff. Our consistent commitment towards investing in technology advancements and training, in addition to encouraging and promoting professional development, has enabled our firm to meet our ongoing and stated goal of continual improvement.

We actively seek to develop relationships with a broad and diversified client base in the Public, Private and Indigenous sectors. We work on a variety of projects throughout Canada, with 12 office locations (11 in Ontario and one in Manitoba).

Burnside has expertise in many technical disciplines beyond our core civil engineering focus including   air and noise, asset management, bridges & culverts, building sciences, environmental planning and ecology, GIS, hydrogeology, land development, landscape architecture, municipal engineering, municipal drainage, solid waste, stormwater management, structures, traffic, transportation planning and design, water and wastewater and well drilling & diagnostics.

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