Readiness Manager

VINCI Construction Grands Projets Canada, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, part of the VINCI Group, construction worldwide leader, specialized in the design and construction of major civil engineering and building works in Canada is hiring a

Readiness Manager

What you will do:

You will play a key role in leading and coordinating the project readiness by ensuring strong internal alignment, coordination, and synchronization across all departments. You will ensure that all teams work in full coherence toward readiness milestones, reviews, liberations of areas, and client deliverables. You will serve as the central point for documentation and formal exchanges with the Client, ensuring clarity, compliance, and timely approvals. In addition, you will contributes to Lean initiatives aimed at improving processes, reducing waste, and increasing efficiency across engineering, construction, and support functions.

Concretely, your tasks will be:

Project preparation

• Lead the overall Readiness Program, ensuring that all project departments are aligned on upcoming milestones, prerequisites, and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain retro‑planning, readiness dashboards, and KPIs.
• Organize, lead, and document Readiness Meetings with internal teams, ensuring issues are identified, escalated, and solved early.
• Maintain the Readiness Register, ensuring full traceability, clear owners, deadlines, evidence, and closure.
• Identify interface gaps or misalignments early and drive collaborative resolution.
• Support departments in structuring their inputs/outputs, ensuring consistency and eliminating gaps,
• Maintain traceability of cross-functional exchanges (requests, decisions, impacts, constraints).
• Facilitate clear understanding of responsibilities, boundaries, and shared tasks across teams.

Coordination & Reporting

• Act as the focal point for Client interactions related to readiness and interfaces.
• Prepare and coordinate Client documentation such as MOUs, readiness review dossiers, comprehensive work packages, windows analysis files, and other required submissions.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant delivery to the Client.
• Support external stakeholders’ alignment with the project’s readiness roadmap.
• Work closely with Project Controls to ensure alignment of planning, risks, and readiness sequencing.
• Ensure readiness and interface topics are integrated into project governance.

Lean & Continuous Improvement

• Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and recurring coordination issues.
  Lead or contribute to Lean initiatives such as Process mapping & simplification, Waste reduction (planning waste, rework, information gaps, waiting time, etc.),
• Standardization of readiness workflows, templates, and reporting, Improvement of cross‑department communication flows

HSE & Compliance

• Comply with VINCI’s Quality Management System and project-specific procedures.

Yous skills:

• Degree in Civil engineering or equivalent
• 5–10 years of experience in large‑scale infrastructure projects (civil, marine, tunnelling, or similar).
• 7 years of experience in project control, scheduling, readiness, interface management, project engineering, or coordination roles involving multiple stakeholders and technical disciplines
• Strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills
• Excellent problem‑solving abilities and a proactive mindset for identifying and resolving interface issues early.
• Strong organizational and reporting skills, including experience maintaining registers, producing KPIs
• Near-native level of English; French is considered an advantage.
• Experience working in regulated environments nuclear is a strong asset
• Lean experience or interest in continuous improvement is highly valued.

What do we have to provide:

• Annual gross compensation ranging from CAD 120 000 - CAD 140 000 depending on experience and profile;
• 4 vacation weeks & 3 emergency/sickness days paid;
  Annual bonus;
• Group Health Insurance (premium participation including virtual health care system);
• Career development opportunities;
• A cosmopolite and inclusive work environment;
• Attractive and challenging project.
  

The Mindset We Value:

• A desire to contribute to meaningful change.
• Fresh, innovative thinking.
• A strong appetite for learning and continuous improvement.
• The ability to adapt and take on new challenges.

Entity

As part of a lineage of 100-year-old companies whose names are associated with impressive achievements worldwide, VINCI Construction Grands Projets possesses end-to-end expertise in the creation of complex infrastructure. Throughout the world, VINCI Construction Grands Projets designs and builds major civil engineering structures (tunnels, bridges, dams, liquefied natural gas storage tanks, road and rail infrastructure) and buildings (skyscrapers, shopping centres, hotels, major industrial facilities, nuclear power plants, etc.). As a complement to the company's high level of expertise, its consummate engineering skills, and expert project management abilities, VINCI Construction Grands Projets practises a policy of involvement at the local level wherever it operates, partnering with local firms and companies, enabling it to deploy wide-ranging yet modular solutions. These solutions, including technical assistance, turnkey projects, and maintenance programs, respond to the many different needs of a broad range of private- and public-sector clients.