Project Manager, Heavy Industrial | Mechanical Contractor | Vancouver or Edmonton Office - MyGreat R

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.