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

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.