Submittals Lead - Transit / Rail

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**Your Impact**:
What we do is more than construction;
we play a part in moving a vision from concept to reality. We work every day to create the spaces people live in and the infrastructure to improve their lives. If you want to join a company where you can have tangible impact, join our team in Toronto as a Submittals Lead - Transit / Rail.
This position performs in a fast-paced high energy team environment, supporting and assisting the Project Team through all project delivery phases for a large regional commuter transit project. The main phases of the project include, Preliminary Design, Detail design, Procurement and Construction contract administration.
If you're up for the challenge, we've been looking for someone just like you. Join our team and help us deliver successful projects.
**Here’s What You’ll Need**:
- Reporting to the Senior Project Manager and/or Technical Director the position is responsible for the management of the project submittals process
- Supports Technical Director, Senior Project Manager and the project team as required
- Highly organized and ability to process and efficiently manage numerous submittals effectively and positively influence Client and Stakeholder team members.
- Reviews and responds to project and program correspondence with excellent written and presentation skills.
- Able to interact with senior clients and articulate complex concepts in a clear and concise manner.
- Coordinates with document control team across all submittal related activities.
- Able to lead and oversee junior members of the submittals management team.
- Attendance at multiple, different, technical and commercial project working groups.
- Verify information received from various sources in support of stakeholder requirements, design and construction submissions, studies, meeting minutes, action logs, dashboards, registers etc. are;
- collated,
- Track submittals to completion accordance with the timescale requirements,
- Maintain documentation of activities
- Reviewed for technical soundness/compliance with requirement, conflicting requirements and or comments,
- Organized and kept up to date,
- Coordinated between all Stakeholder and project team
- Process submittals from Client and Stakeholder teams including but not limited to the Technical Advisor (TA) and Project Co.
- Interfaces with TA and Stakeholder teams on submittals issues to drive positive outcomes.
- Resolves submittals and related issues providing recommendations to the project team where required.
- Coordinate project team responses for technical memos etc.
- Positive influencing skills and building excellent relationships.
- Analyze and mitigate risk of delayed submittals and the impact on the project schedule.
- Prepare summary reports for Executive Management.
- May be required to support on various project management activities.
You’ll also need:
- BS or MS graduate of an engineering discipline or similar applicable technical discipline.
- Preferably 8 to 10 years’ experience working within transit industry
- Professional Engineer, PMP or similar professional license is considered desirable but not essential.
- Project delivery experience using AFP, P3, or similar methodology is desirable. Sound understanding of project management principles is highly desirable.
- Understanding of design and construction ideally including transit infrastructure e.G., stations and their associated facilities, tunnels, and systems is an asset.
- Knowledge of field activities such as Geotechnical, Topographic Survey and SUE (Subsurface Utility Engineering) investigations is an asset.
- Sound understanding and practical experience of contract administration and document management software, CM14 and Aconex are desired
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in construction and major project environment
- Minimum 3 years’ working as a Project Coordinator, Submittals Coordinator or equivalent role
- Knowledge of transit engineering, operations, and maintenance is desirable
- Experience of engineering design management and review would be an asset
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Suite with a strong emphasis on Excel, and PowerPoint. Other CAD related software’s such as Bentley, Autodesk (MicroStation, AutoCAD, Revit) are considered an asset. Visu