Sr Project Manager, IT Airline Operations

Employment Type:Full-time Regular

City:Calgary, AB (YYC)

Posting Open Date:02/05/2026

Posting Close Date:02/18/2026 (Please note the posting will close at 11:59pm MST
)

This position requires in-person collaboration up to 5 days per week.
* Please note this arrangement is subject to change with business requirements.*

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Reporting to the, the Senior Manager, IT Airline Operations Strategy & Delivery, the Senior Project Manager is a full-time role responsible for the delivery of projects that roll up to key enterprise and IT programs.

• Delivery Planning
  – Establish delivery plans for IT Projects in a complex environment with work spanning multiple product teams. Work with Product and Delivery Managers to make sequencing decisions and to provide resourcing plans.
• Financial Tracking – Understanding all aspects of your project budget and appropriately managing constraints.
• Delivery Management
  – Lead key projects from inception to completion, orchestrating multiple teams and project-centric resources to align on project value delivery, along with management of scope, schedule and cost.
• Sequencing & Dependency Management –Manage dependencies of varying complexity and collaborate with Program Managers and Product Managers to decide upon appropriate up and downstream sequencing decisions.
• Communications & Stakeholder Management –Responsible for all proactive and reactive communications for project sponsors and stakeholders. This includes effective collaboration and working across teams.
• Escalations –Awareness of external impacts of on-project decisions, proactively communicating escalations up and out to broader sponsors and stakeholders. Provide propose mitigation strategies and correction action as applicable.
• Strategic Alignment
  – Liaise with both the Solution and Enterprise Architecture to ensure that key projects continue to adhere to technology strategies and enterprise priorities respectively.
• Other responsibilities as assigned and consistent with the role.

• Post-secondary education within an Information Technology or Engineering Field.
• Project Management certification of any framework (i.e. PMP, PRINCE2) is advantageous but not mandatory.
• Any Agile and Product Management related certification is advantageous but not mandatory.
• At least 8 years’ experience of delivering transformational technology projects
• Experience working within enterprise environments, working with cross-functional teams, and managing a range of stakeholders.
• Previous experience working in a technical capacity, in any role or discipline is advantageous.

• Technical Competency –A technical background or exposure to complex technical deliveries that yields critical thinking and the ability to challenge technical feasibility.
• Communications –The ability to communicate across organizational, technical, and political boundaries, distilling down complex technical information to a format consumable and understood by non-technical audiences and stakeholders.
• Agile Delivery –The ability to work within hybrid delivery environments; waterfall/agile, product/project, leveraging Dev Ops and SDLC tooling for organizational efficiency.
• Planning –The ability to lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment, whilst co-ordinating and coaching other delivery teams as a central point of expertise.
• Management –Strong commercial acumen including financial management, contract negotiation, and vendor selection.
• Self-Direction
  – The ability to work independently, establish relationships and working practices with colleagues from multiple specialisms.

West Jet provides allWestJetterswith a competitive total rewards package. On top of that, we offer:

• A fun and friendly culture with colleagues who work together to win
• Travel privileges…