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About the Role
The company is looking for a Delivery Director for the Project Management Office (PMO) of a major program. The scope includes management of the design, engineering, procurement, construction, and post-construction phases of the project. A new Delivery Director position has been created within the Project Management Office (PMO), reporting directly to the Senior Program Director. The Delivery Director is responsible for leading and integrating the PMO’s Project Management, Construction Management, and Engineering and Design functions to support the safe, timely, and high-quality delivery of the program.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead, direct, supervise, and coordinate the PMO’s Project Management, Construction Management, and Engineering and Design functions.
- Establish an integrated delivery approach across all workstreams, ensuring clear accountability, effective interfaces, and alignment with program objectives.
- Ensure program requirements are defined, communicated, and achieved, and review draft and final deliverables for compliance with approved criteria.
- Oversee the development and implementation of delivery strategies, execution plans, budgets, schedules, resource plans, and performance controls.
- Monitor progress against key milestones and promptly address risks, constraints, cost pressures, schedule delays, quality issues, and changes in scope.
- Lead recovery planning and corrective actions where performance deviates from approved plans.
- Provide clear, timely reporting and recommendations to the Senior Program Director on delivery performance, key decisions, risks, and emerging issues.
- Coordinate with the client, PMCM consultants and Design Consultants, contractors, regulatory authorities, government agencies, and other stakeholders to resolve delivery matters and maintain alignment.
- Participate in negotiations, executive reviews, and public or regulatory meetings in support of the client and program.
- Ensure instructions, commitments, decisions, and action items are documented, communicated, tracked, and closed.
- Mobilize and manage the resources required to deliver effective, high-quality work across the PMO.
- Promote technical and commercial excellence through quality assurance, governance, design management, construction oversight, and disciplined project controls.
- Maintain oversight of change management and ensure change orders are current, justified, and processed in a timely manner.
- Chair regular delivery and coordination meetings to review status, resolve interfaces, and assign actions.
- Support performance reviews, development plans, succession planning, and capability development for direct and indirect reports.
- Act as the company’s senior delivery representative with the client and selected consultants and contractors during program execution.
- Perform other responsibilities in support of the Senior Program Director.
What Desired Skills You’ll Bring
- Executive leadership and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams in a complex PMO environment.
- Strong knowledge of project management, construction management, engineering and design management, project controls, commercial management, and governance.
- Ability to integrate multiple delivery functions and manage complex stakeholder and organizational interfaces.
- Excellent written, verbal, negotiation, presentation, and client relationship skills.
- Thorough knowledge of relevant industry practices, regulations, quality requirements, and health and safety standards.
- Sound judgment, decisive problem-solving, and the ability to operate effectively under pressure.
- Ability to meet the company’s project management certification requirements.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 20 years of relevant experience, including senior leadership assignments on major, complex, multidisciplinary programs.
- Substantial experience leading project management, construction management, and engineering or design functions.
- Demonstrated experience in PMO governance, program delivery, stakeholder management, planning, cost, risk, change, quality, and performance reporting.
- Experience delivering major infrastructure, public-realm, mixed-use, or comparable large-scale developments is preferred.
- Professional registration or chartered status may be required.
- Recognized project or program management certification is preferred.
The company equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
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