Role overview

Project Manager – Heavy Industrial

Location: Local to Either Port Coquitlam, BC or Edmonton, AB office
Salary: $90,000 - $140,000 (Negotiable depending on experience)

We are seeking a Project Manager to join an established mechanical contractor specializing in heavy industrial maintenance, shutdowns, and turnarounds. This individual will work alongside a long-tenured Senior Project Manager before ultimately taking ownership of an established portfolio of pulp and paper clients. This is a highly client-facing, hands-on project management role that combines planning, coordination, commercial management, and site execution. Extensive travel is a core part of the position, particularly throughout the spring and fall shutdown seasons, with assignments at industrial sites and mill towns across Western Canada.

Must Haves

Project management experience within heavy industrial construction, maintenance, or a comparable industrial environment.
Ability and willingness to travel extensively during spring and fall shutdown seasons, including being away from home for multiple weeks at a time.
Ability to work extended hours while supporting active shutdowns and turnarounds.
Experience coordinating people, materials, equipment, schedules, and subcontractors to keep projects on track.
Strong client-facing communication and relationship management skills.
Experience managing project budgets, costs, schedules, change orders, and reporting.
Comfortable working in active industrial sites and fast-paced field environments.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.

Nice to Haves

Pulp and paper industry experience.
Mechanical construction or industrial maintenance experience.
Shutdown, turnaround, or outage experience.
Estimating, bidding, or proposal experience.
Experience managing long-term maintenance or service contracts.
Trade certification, engineering, construction management, or other relevant technical education.
PMP or formal project management training.

Responsibilities

Work alongside a long-tenured Senior Project Manager to learn the existing client portfolio before assuming full ownership of the accounts.
Manage industrial maintenance, shutdown, turnaround, and project work from planning through completion.
Serve as a key point of contact for assigned pulp and paper clients and maintain strong relationships with client representatives.
Ensure the right people, materials, equipment, subcontractors, and resources are in place when required to successfully execute each project.
Coordinate closely with Superintendents, field leadership, engineering resources, project administration, finance, and other internal teams.
Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, forecasts, manpower plans, procurement requirements, and execution plans.
Monitor project costs, labour hours, productivity, change orders, committed costs, and forecasted financial performance.
Identify out-of-scope work and ensure changes are properly documented, priced, communicated, and approved.
Maintain regular communication with clients so both parties understand upcoming work, changing priorities, risks, and expectations.
Prepare project reports, cost updates, schedules, forecasts, meeting minutes, and other project documentation.
Travel to client sites throughout Western Canada to support project planning and execution.
Provide focused on-site leadership during shutdowns and turnarounds where schedules are fixed and delays directly impact client production.
Work extended site hours when required during critical shutdown and turnaround periods.
Coordinate project closeout, final costs, outstanding changes, client feedback, and lessons learned.
Support estimating, proposals, planning, and other project preparation activities between active shutdown periods.
Build a deep understanding of assigned client facilities, expectations, personnel, and upcoming maintenance requirements.
Identify opportunities to strengthen existing client relationships and support future maintenance, shutdown, and project work.