Program / Project Management Roles

Company Description

Constrata is a nationwide construction consultancy based in Canada that helps clients navigate complex challenges. Constrata focuses on enhancing financial performance, schedule certainty, and legal defensibility for construction stakeholders across Canada. Constrata's mission is underpinned by values of integrity, technical rigor, client advocacy, proactive risk management, and regulatory compliance, making it a trusted advisor for high-performance project delivery.

About the Roles

Constrata is expanding to support multiple current and upcoming infrastructure programs across Canada. We are hiring program- and project-level professionals across commercial, project controls, delivery leadership, and specialist functions—spanning a range of expertise and seniority.

To keep applications efficient, we’ve listed typical experience bands for each role group; these help us align candidates to the right level (Coordinator through Director). That said, all experience levels are encouraged to apply —if your background aligns with any role category, we will assess your fit and connect based on immediate vacancies and our forward pipeline of upcoming needs.

• 1. Program/Project Directors (15–25+ yrs | P.Eng./PMP (asset)): Lead program delivery end-to-end (scope/cost/schedule/risk), governance, stakeholder exec reporting, and performance across multiple infrastructure workstreams.
• 2. Program/Project Managers (12–25+ yrs | P.Eng./PMP (asset)): Manage day-to-day delivery: plan, coordinate teams/consultants/contractors, drive milestones, resolve issues, manage change, and ensure quality/safety.
• 3. Program/Project Coordinators (5–10+ yrs | PMP (asset)): Support PMO/PMs with schedules, actions, minutes, logs (RAID/change), reporting, document control, and coordination across workstreams.
• 4. Commercial/Contracts/Claims Professionals (8–25+ yrs | PQS/MRICS; P.Eng./PMP/CICCM/MCIArb (asset)): Own commercial strategy: contracting, procurement support, change/claims management, risk allocation, cost control, and dispute avoidance/resolution.
• 5. QS/Estimators (8–20+ yrs | PQS/MRICS; P.Eng./PMP/CICCM/MCIArb (asset)): Prepare estimates/BoQs, cost plans, benchmarks, tender analysis, value engineering, and change pricing for capital infrastructure works.
• 6. Cost Controllers (8–15+ yrs | PMP/EVP (asset)): Track budgets/commitments/forecasting, cashflow, earned value (EVM), variance analysis, and monthly cost reporting with audit-ready backups.
• 7. Scheduler/Planners (8–15+ yrs | PMP/PSP/PMI-SP (asset)): Build/manage integrated CPM schedules (P6/MSP), baseline & progress updates, critical path analysis, recovery plans, and schedule reporting.
• 8. Risk Management Professionals (8–15+ yrs | RMP (asset)): Run risk governance: identify/quantify risks, maintain registers, lead workshops, track mitigations, and report exposures/trends to leadership.
• 9. Interface & Integration Professionals (8–15+ yrs | P.Eng.; PMP (asset)): Manage technical/functional interfaces across disciplines and stakeholders; maintain interface registers, resolve clashes, and support integration readiness.
• 10. Procurement & Logistics Professionals (8–15+ yrs | CISCP/CSCP (asset)): Lead sourcing and logistics: procurement plans, vendor management, long-lead strategy, expediting, delivery coordination, and supply risk mitigation.
• 11. Environmental Professionals (8–12+ yrs | PMP (asset)): Manage environmental scope: permits/approvals support, compliance monitoring, mitigation plans, stakeholder/agency coordination, and reporting.
• 12. PLAA Professionals (8–12+ yrs): Lead PLAA (property/land access/agreements/approvals): coordinate access needs, permissions, third-party requirements, and maintain approval trackers.

Key Responsibilities — Strategy, Governance & Alignment

• Represent the owner’s interests, communicating goals and constraints, and ensuring alignment with the project’s strategic outcomes.
• Develop and implement a commercial and contract management strategy consistent with public‑sector principles, industry standards, and internal policies.
• Establish and participate in multi‑party governance routines (steering, commercial, risk, change), ensuring transparency and auditability.

Key Responsibilities — Commercial Frameworks & Procurement

• Lead the development, negotiation, and administration of commercial frameworks (including collaborative/alliance‑style principles where applicable), with appropriate risk allocation and incentives.
• Oversee end‑to‑end procurement (RFx design, evaluation, negotiations, award) ensuring fairness, value for money, and compliance with applicable regulations and policies.
• Drive process improvement, guidance, templates, and tooling (CLM/CMIS) and maintain market intelligence/benchmarking to inform strategy.

Key Responsibilities — Contract Administration, Claims & Change

• Provide authoritative contractual interpretation on scope, obligations, notices, timing, and change provisions.
• Operate disciplined change control (claims, variations, extensions of time, compensation events) with contemporaneous records and approvals.
• Lead entitlement assessment and quantum analysis (rates, measures, productivity, disruption, prolongation, head office overheads) and coordinate forensic schedule analysis (e.g., time‑impact, windows).
• Implement dispute avoidance practices (issue triage, commercial escalation, facilitated negotiation, independent review boards) and, when required, manage formal disputes (mediation, adjudication, arbitration/litigation).
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, earned value/production metrics, contingency and risk draw‑down, and cash‑flow management.
• Set and monitor KPIs and benefit measures; implement corrective actions to protect outcomes and value.
• Provide regular, transparent reporting on progress, risk, cost/schedule performance, commercial exposure, and key decisions.
• Drive proactive risk identification, assessment, allocation, and mitigation, consistent with any collaborative risk‑sharing approach in use.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations; maintain robust audit trails and probity controls.

Key Responsibilities — Stakeholder & Partner Management

• Build trust and accountability across contractors, designers, operators, regulators, communities, and financiers.
• Maintain constructive collaboration in alliance/partnering contexts while preserving the owner’s commercial position.

Key Responsibilities — People, Process & Tools

• Lead and develop a high‑performing commercial/contract team; define roles, competencies, coaching, and succession.
• Champion continuous improvement, automation, analytics dashboards, and data quality across commercial systems.

Core Competencies

• Advanced negotiation, commercial acumen, quantitative analysis, and written advocacy (position papers, determinations).
• Governance, probity, and compliance mindset; excellent stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Leadership that fosters accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Compensation & Work Arrangement

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits commensurate with experience.
• Work environment depends on the client’s policy (mostly from the client’s office).