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Senior Project Manager

PCL Construction

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Colony, TX
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Requirements

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Gold Seal Certification

Job overview

PCL Construction is seeking a Senior Project Manager for its Civil East office to support growth in the water and wastewater market. The role leads complex infrastructure projects, with responsibilities spanning safety, quality, design coordination, project execution, performance monitoring, and client relationships. The ideal candidate brings 8–12 years of progressive construction experience and strong project leadership capabilities; 15+ years of experience is preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Safety ManagementEnvironmental ComplianceConstruction ManagementQuality ManagementProject Delivery MethodsConstruction SequencingConstruction LawBuilding CodesCollective AgreementsInsurance and BondingVerbal CommunicationWritten CommunicationPresentation SkillsFlexibilityResource ForecastingStaffingLabor Relations

Qualifications

Postsecondary Education or Training in Engineering, Construction Management, or Related DisciplineGold Seal Certification15+ Years Construction Experience12 Months Estimating or Related Experience1 Year PCL Service1 Year in Current RoleWork Authorization in Job Jurisdiction

Full job description

Senior Project Manager

The future you want is within reach.

At PCL, your personal and professional growth is our passion. We're excited to help you discover what's next in your journey so you can build a legacy that you're proud of. With locations and projects across North America and beyond, exciting opportunities are waiting for you in dozens of cities.

As a(n) Senior Project Manager for our Civil East office, you will contribute to our team byyou will help support PCL's continued growth in the water and wastewater market. The ideal candidate will bring 8–12 years of progressive construction experience, strong project leadership capabilities, and experience delivering complex infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

  • Develops, implements, and maintains the project safety program for a safe work environment. Creates and influences safety culture as a mentor and model.

  • Conducts job site tours and safety inspections and leads by example to ensure that policies, procedures, environmental programs and safety standards are followed.

  • Conducts site and safety inspections, attends progress meetings, leads by example, reviews incidents, near misses, HSE reports, and statistics, and effects change to ensure that project safety standards, legislation, and environmental programs are followed.

  • Liaises with clients to ensure that projects are constructed as per quality and safety standards, and contract.

  • Leads to secure new work by participating in estimates, working with trade contractors, and/or participating in proposals and presentations.

  • Oversees the development and implementation of quality management plan and quality culture with stakeholder buy-in.

  • Understands client drivers and offers value engineering proposals for functionality, cost, and/or schedule benefit to the client while maintaining value-added outcomes as part of our solution provider service where warranted.

  • Develops or oversees the Project Execution Plan (PEP) with the superintendent.

  • Coordinates, monitors, and manages design deliverable schedule to facilitate and/or assist with permits, procurement, shop drawings, off-site production, construction and commissioning in conjunction with the review and signoff by the client.

  • Conducts review of design and seeks resolution from the design team with respect to compliance, scope creep, cost optimization, code requirements, procurement, safety in design, construction sequencing, and constructability.

  • Conducts review of design documentation, leveraging the necessary team members, and seeks resolution from the design team with respect to level of design completeness, accuracy, and quality as applicable to various design stages and construction.

  • Oversees and monitors project performance status reports for schedule, costs, equipment, manpower, materials, safety and environment, cost forecast, and quality control, and QUEST programs.

  • Monitors production and reviews work of assigned resources to ensure that project time, cost, and quality objectives are met.

  • Identifies scope gaps, technical risk, and areas requiring interdisciplinary coordination from the design documents.

Qualifications

  • Postsecondary education or training in engineering, construction management, or a related discipline.

  • Gold Seal certification (CDN).

  • 15+ years of progressive construction experience with multiple contract delivery types as a leader and mentor preferred.

  • 12 months of estimating or related experience preferred.

  • In-depth knowledge and application of safety and environment principles/ procedures/legislation.

  • In-depth knowledge of construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, methods and procedures, safety and quality management practices for large, complex, and more diverse projects.

  • Experience with diverse project types, delivery and construction methods, and sequencing and timelines.

  • Strong knowledge of and ability to apply project construction laws and building codes and to leverage such knowledge.

  • Understanding of and experience with collective agreements and jurisdiction assignment for multi-trade sites.

  • Thorough understanding of insurance, bonding, and legal requirements.

  • Effective verbal, written, presentation, and communication skills.

  • Demonstrated flexibility and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

  • Ability to monitor and forecast project resources and staffing for the project.

  • Ability to identify staffing and hourly labor issues.

If you are interested in this role, please speak with your direct supervisor for an endorsement prior to submitting your application for consideration. Along with supervisor approval, we ask that you have at minimum 1 year of service with PCL and 1 year within your current role. Cross border applications will not be considered at this time, unless you have the ability to work in the jurisdiction where this job is located.

In assessing your application, we will consider your qualifications, experience, performance and career goals, and succession plan. You can expect to be updated on the status of your application within four weeks of submitting your application. Consideration will be given to both internal and external candidates, and the priority will vary with the nature of the position to be filled.

Please ensure your mobility status is updated in Employee Central. If you’d like to learn more about mobility at PCL, speak to your supervisor, District Mobility Champion, or check out theMobility page (https://pclconnects.sharepoint.com/SitePages/Mobility-at-PCL.aspx) on Connects.

This is more than a job, this is your career and that matters. We look forward to reviewing your submission to determine if you're a good fit for this role.

Hiring Manager: Ridge Shortridge

Job: Senior Project Manager

Job Locations: Colony, Texas

Organization: US Civil

Recruiter: Stephanie Colomer

Company: PCL Civil Constructors, Inc.

Requisition: 14507

How this job compares

Set against the 15,370 open Project Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Texas median$108–175K/yr525 salary ranges
  • Texas median$30–36/hr34 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,178 open Project Management jobs in Texas and 15,370 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Project Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 12,259 postings).
Education
6,231 of the 15,370 open Project Management jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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