Electrical Project Director

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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.

Here's how an Electrical Project Director for PCL Industrial Services, Inc. contributes to our team:

• Champion and role-model PCL's HSE culture on industrial sites with elevated hazard profiles (energized systems, arc-flash exposure, high-voltage terminations and testing, confined space, working at height, heavy lifts). Participate in the district safety committee and influence corporate safety policy, JHA/JSA quality, lockout/tagout discipline, and incident learnings.
• Provide field leadership for one very large or several concurrent industrial projects. Accountable for safety, budget, quality, schedule, productivity, and profitability performance across all self-perform and subcontracted electrical scopes, serving as the senior decision-maker for technical, operational, contractual, and commercial matters.
• Direct execution of high- and medium-voltage substations, distribution systems, switch gear, UPS and emergency power, generators, protective relaying, grounding, motor control centres, instrumentation and controls, PLC/SCADA systems, variable frequency drives, cable and raceway, terminations and testing, and electrical completion / walk-down / punch-list / turnover to commissioning.
• Attend design management meetings led by the prime consultant/EPC. Drive constructability reviews for equipment layout, one-line and load coordination, cable routing and pathways, gear access, tie-in windows, and outage / energization planning. Escalate design issues that impact cost, schedule, or safety.
• 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.
• Provide leadership to PCL's self-perform electrical workforce (electricians, terminators, cable installers, testing technicians) and oversee project quality programs and standards, installation and testing compliance, NETA acceptance testing, and QA/QC coordination with third-party inspection and commissioning agents.
• Contribute to core pursuit and preconstruction teams — supporting estimates, execution plans, logistics plans, manpower curves, and client presentations for mission critical, power, mining, semiconductor, utility, and renewables opportunities.
• Monitor design deliverables, long‑lead procurement (substation equipment, switch gear, transformers, generators, UPS, gear and cable), shop drawings, off‑site prefabrication and modular assemblies, and field installation to protect critical path.
• Understand, communicate, and proactively administer prime contracts, subcontracts, and purchase orders. Oversee and negotiate change orders, claims, and disputes with owners and trade contractors in partnership with the site team.
• Supervise, direct, train, and mentor superintendents, general foremen, electrical field engineers, and QA/QC personnel across single or multiple sites; build bench strength for the district's growing industrial pipeline.
• Manage project org structures including joint ventures, integrated project delivery, and EPC/EPCM partnerships with owners, engineers, and specialty subcontractors.
• Serve as a senior field‑facing representative to industrial owners, EPC firms, utilities, municipalities, and prime consultants; communicate PCL's needs, requirements, and risk positions clearly and professionally, and help secure repeat…