Project Manager

Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.

We believe the world needs industrial projects and that intelligent engineering data can increase the likelihood of innovative solutions getting to market. Over the years, our multi-discipline teams have conceptualized and designed some of the most challenging and successful industrial processing projects in the North American energy sector. Vista has established itself as a trusted industrial engineering partner for all types of projects, from conceptual studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.

The benefits of our approach apply to new asset developments and brownfield optimization projects across several industrial markets. This includes biofuels and produced water treatment to natural gas and petrochemical processing. While we are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.

The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for managing the overall execution for an assigned project, including budgeting and scheduling. Project management activities include estimation, planning/scheduling, change management, identification and mitigation of risks, progress reporting, oversight of procurement activities, and coordination with various disciplines. The PM must understand the overall direction, priority and schedules to execute the project and work with various discipline leads to deliver successful solutions to the client. Project Managers at Vista are required to be informed about the details of the scope being executed, in order to utilize their experience to provide specific guidance to team members.

• Holding the overall accountability for project outcomes
• Leading client meetings, status updates, and executive reporting
• Managing project budgets and project staffing for project delivery within cost
• Managing project schedules for project delivery within timelines 
• Working with Engineering Discipline Managers and Responsible Engineers to ensuring the quality of drawings, models and work products
• Overseeing planning and development of engineering work packages (EWPs), including scope of work, BOMs, isometrics, layouts, various discipline specific lists, etc.
• Coordinating aspects of change management and ensuring its effective implementation: trends, scope changes, design change notices (DCN), etc.
• Managing action items to ensure they are completed on schedule
• Creation of and stewarding to project risk management plans; including formal risk reviews and ongoing risk mitigation
• Contributing to and monitoring project KPIs, earned value and project reporting
• Developing and managing vendor/contractor relationships
• Understanding the interfaces between procurement and non-procurement disciplines and ensuring appropriate processes and procedures are followed
• Reviewing and evaluating standard procurement documents including bid lists, requests for quotation / proposal and commercial bid evaluations
• Contributing to initiatives to improve project delivery methodologies across multiple disciplines
• Performing other duties as requested

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Ten years of progressive experience in engineering and design and additional five years of project engineering focused experience
• Knowledge of engineering terms, design requirements, processes and document types
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team including process, piping, mechanical, civil-structural, electrical, instrumentation and CAD support
• Understanding of project controls, reporting and KPIs
• Strategic managerial skills and experience
• Ability to meet safety requirements to attend site visits

• Ten years of progressive project engineering experience managing full cycle project execution
• Experience managing several mid to major or large-capital projects throughout the full lifecycle
• P.Eng. registration with APEGA
• Engineering or applied science degree

Working with Vista is a chance to contribute to the type of challenging municipal and industrial projects that the world requires. If that doesn’t excite you, this role likely won’t be a fit.

Challenging projects require focus and we enable our people to do their best work with modernized project systems that are based on our leading use of intelligent data-centric execution architecture. Our staff and clients like that it gives them real-time access to validated data shared across all project departments. This fosters project design and business decisions based on a single, authoritative source of truth and provides increased transparency and collaboration with team members and clients, leading to improved engineering quality and a product we can all take pride in.

An opportunity with Vista is not just a job; it is a chance to tackle challenging projects with colleagues who are among the most recognized and accomplished in their disciplines.

Vista offers all employees

• A stimulating, fast-paced and challenging work environment where you will contribute to the interesting municipal and industrial engineering projects
• A robust and consistent recruitment process that ensures your colleagues are likeminded and comparably capable
• An opportunity to be a part of an entrepreneurial, technically skilled team which has established leadership in innovative engineering solutions
• A strong value-based philosophy that provides an informal, close-knit team environment, where you and your family feel like a part of our organization, and not just an employee number
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including a performance-linked variable pay program
• Company-sponsored social events and team sports
• Flexible work schedules, half-day Fridays and free parking
• An organization that values and encourages diversity

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