Project Manager - PL#60248

Peter Lucas Project Management invests in people and community to provide gold standard project delivery. We are currently looking for an experienced Project Manager to join our team.

At Peter Lucas, we offer a variety of work, professional development, and learning opportunities that come from working on diverse projects in the mining, energy, and heavy industrial sectors. Our dynamic environment, filled with high-achieving professionals, enables our staff to take on incredible opportunities, gain mentorship from a diverse group of colleagues, and succeed in their careers.

The successful candidate will provide project management services supporting the planning, development, and delivery of a major transportation infrastructure project. This role will involve coordinating multidisciplinary studies, evaluating infrastructure rehabilitation and replacement options, supporting long-term capital planning, and facilitating collaboration among consultants, stakeholders, and governing committees.

The Project Manager will play a key role in ensuring project activities, schedules, budgets, risks, and deliverables remain aligned while supporting informed decision-making on future transportation infrastructure investments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate project management activities supporting the development and delivery of a comprehensive transportation infrastructure business case.
• Support the evaluation of infrastructure rehabilitation and replacement options, including costs, benefits, risks, lifecycle considerations, and long-term impacts.
• Coordinate multiple project workstreams, ensuring alignment of project scope, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and stakeholder communications.
• Organize and facilitate planning committee meetings, including scheduling, agenda preparation, presentations, meeting minutes, action items, and progress tracking.
• Act as the primary liaison between the project owner and external consultants conducting engineering, infrastructure, utility, and feasibility studies.
• Monitor consultant deliverables, schedules, budgets, and performance, identifying risks and recommending corrective actions when required.
• Lead stakeholder engagement activities involving internal departments, external agencies, consultants, and transportation planning partners.
• Coordinate discussions and activities related to transportation corridor preservation, strategic land acquisition, and long-term infrastructure planning.
• Prepare briefing materials, meeting documentation, progress reports, and presentations to support management and committee decision-making.
• Research comparable infrastructure projects, identify planning requirements, and coordinate input from technical specialists and subject matter experts.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, action registers, risk registers, budgets, and project documentation.
• Support project initiation, scope development, resource planning, financial management, and quality assurance activities.
• Track project expenditures, consultant invoices, and financial commitments to support budget management and reporting.
• Identify project risks, constraints, and dependencies while developing mitigation strategies to maintain project objectives.
• Maintain organized project records, correspondence, reports, and supporting documentation using established document management systems.
• Provide project management advisory support, including recommendations on best practices, tools, methodologies, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Ensure project activities align with applicable organizational policies, governance requirements, and regional transportation planning priorities.
• Communicate project progress, key decisions, emerging issues, and recommendations to project leadership and stakeholders.

Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Work Arrangement: Halifax-based, with local travel as required

Requirements

• Current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in good standing.
• Minimum 8 years of experience managing and delivering complex projects, programs, or major organizational initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale infrastructure, transportation, capital planning, or business case development projects.
• Strong understanding of project management principles, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and stakeholder management.
• Proven experience coordinating multidisciplinary consultants, contractors, technical specialists, and external stakeholders.
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, budgets, financial reports, and project documentation.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare executive-level reports, presentations, briefing materials, and committee documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and project scheduling software such as Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting project governance, decision-making processes, and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and provide effective leadership in a collaborative project environment.
• Based in the Halifax Regional Municipality, with the ability to attend meetings and travel locally as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing bridge, highway, transit, or other major transportation infrastructure projects.
• Previous involvement in bridge rehabilitation, replacement planning, major crossings, or transportation corridor studies.
• Experience developing business cases, feasibility studies, or options analyses for public-sector infrastructure investments.
• Experience managing consultants on behalf of an infrastructure owner, including engineering, environmental, utilities, and technical studies.
• Previous experience working with Crown corporations, municipalities, provincial governments, or other public-sector organizations.
• Familiarity with board and committee governance, executive presentations, and formal decision-making processes.
• Experience supporting strategic land acquisition, corridor preservation, right-of-way planning, or long-term transportation infrastructure development.
• Strong experience preparing committee agendas, meeting minutes, action registers, and executive briefing materials.

Benefits

• Extended health and dental benefits
• Pension matching program
• Company events and incentives

We appreciate all applicants' interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Compensation is negotiable based on experience and qualifications. Global reference checks may be conducted following the interview process.

Peter Lucas Project Management is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We acknowledge that the Peter Lucas head office is located on Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, and the homeland of the Métis.

We also acknowledge that our Kamloops office is located on Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc territory, situated within the unceded ancestral lands of the Secwépemc Nation. We honour and respect the people, the territory, and the land that houses the Kamloops community. We recognize that our work, our lives, and our communities extend beyond these borders, taking place on the traditional and unceded territories of Indigenous Peoples across what is now known as Canada. As we live, work, and play in these diverse lands, we honor the deep histories, cultures, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples. In the spirit of Reconciliation and guided by our mission to elevate people and communities while driving innovation and sustainability, we are committed to building respectful relationships and shared success across this land we call home.