Project Director Jobs in Georgetown, ON (NOW HIRING)

Location: Toronto, ON, CA Montreal, Quebec, CA Toronto, ON, CA

Operating Sector: Urban Transportation Solutions

At Aecon, a Canadian leader in infrastructure development, we build what matters for future generations. We lead impactful infrastructure projects, advancing transformational change in transportation and energy, and partnering to build, connect, power, and strengthen communities.

Aecon is seeking a Project Director to join the Urban Transportation Solutions group to support dynamic transit projects in Canada. This role carries overall accountability for project performance across safety, scope, schedule, cost, quality, and stakeholder outcomes.

• Lead delivery across the full project lifecycle (pursuit through design, construction, systems integration, commissioning, and closeout), ensuring alignment to contract model principles, contractual obligations, and commercial outcomes.
• Act as the primary, senior interface with the Owner and Partners, setting the tone for collaboration, trust, and "best-for-project" decision‑making in an open‑book environment.
• Establish and lead the governance framework, including executive leadership alignment, decision‑making protocols, escalation pathways, and integrated team performance across all partners.
• Define and maintain the overall delivery strategy, ensuring alignment between scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder commitments, while adapting to evolving project conditions.
• Provide executive oversight of cost, schedule, risk, safety, and quality performance, ensuring disciplines are integrated and collectively accountable to target outcomes and KPIs.
• Champion Target Value Delivery, ensuring target cost integrity, gainshare/painshare optimization, value engineering, and disciplined trend management.
• Lead client, stakeholder, and external engagement at the highest level, including transit agencies, municipalities, regulators, Indigenous partners, and community stakeholders.
• Oversee the commercial and contractual framework, including approvals, change strategy, reporting, and alignment to "no disputes / no surprises" principles.
• Ensure effective integration of design, construction, and systems, with early resolution of interfaces and strategic oversight of civil‑to‑systems integration risks.
• Set the tone for project culture, driving transparency, collaboration, inclusion, and high performance across the integrated team.
• Ensure executive‑level reporting, assurance, and governance provide an accurate view of project health, enabling proactive intervention and confidence from the Owner.

• 20+ years of progressive project leadership experience on major infrastructure projects, including at least 5 years in a Project Director, Alliance Director, or equivalent senior leadership role on transit, rail, or heavy civil programs of significant scale and complexity, ideally exceeding $1B.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects across a range of collaborative and contractor‑led delivery models, including Alliance, Progressive Design‑Build, Design‑Build, Construction Management, CMGC, or similar frameworks involving integrated governance and shared decision‑making.
• Proven success leading projects through the full lifecycle from pursuit, development, and early design through construction, systems integration, testing and commissioning, and handover to operations.
• Extensive client‑facing leadership experience, including serving as the senior interface with owners, transit agencies, municipal authorities, regulatory bodies, utilities, Indigenous communities, and other key stakeholders in complex, high‑profile environments.
• Strong commercial and contractual acumen, including direct experience with target cost models, gainshare/painshare mechanisms, change management, commercial negotiations, risk allocation, dispute avoidance/resolution, and close‑out of major infrastructure contracts.
• Proven ability to establish, lead, and align large, multi‑discipline project organizations, including teams of 200+ personnel across engineering, construction, systems, quality, project controls, commercial, and stakeholder functions.
• Direct experience managing joint venture, consortium, or partner relationships, including governance, integrated resourcing, risk sharing, issue resolution, and maintaining commercial alignment across partner organizations.
• Strong understanding of how design, construction, civil works, utilities, track, structures, systems, and commissioning interact on major transit and rail programs, including key interface risks, sequencing dependencies, and integrated planning requirements.
• Experience with a variety of project conditions and scopes, including underground, elevated, and at‑grade construction in dense, operational, and urban environments.
• Recognized for building high‑performing, inclusive project cultures grounded in collaboration, accountability, transparency, and trust, with references that speak to both leadership character and delivery performance.
• Post‑secondary education in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. P.Eng, PMP, or similar designation considered a strong asset.
• Strong executive communication, judgment, and stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to lead through ambiguity, make timely decisions, and represent the project credibly at the most senior levels.
• Committed to advancing inclusion, diversity, and belonging, and to creating project environments where different perspectives are welcomed and teams can perform at their best.

Reason for vacancy: Proactive/Evergreen

Aecon fosters diversity, inclusion and belonging within and across our organization. We welcome all to apply including, women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.

We are committed to adhering to the objectives and requirements outlined in the Accessible Canada Act (ACA), and to meeting the accessibility needs of persons with disabilities in a timely manner. Through the implementation of the requirements of the ACA and its applicable regulations, appropriate accommodations will be provided upon request throughout the interview and hiring process.

As part of our commitment to fair and transparent hiring practices, Aecon may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in screening and reviewing candidates. These tools are applied responsibly and in accordance with applicable privacy laws and Aecon’s AI Usage Policy. All final decisions are made by qualified Aecon team members.