Senior Project Manager, Construction

About Toronto Community Housing Corporation

Toronto Community Housing Corporation ("TCHC") is the largest social housing provider in Canada and the second largest in North America. We are wholly owned by the City of Toronto and operate in a non-profit manner. TCHC provides homes to over 41,000 low and moderate-income households in 88 of Toronto's neighbourhoods, with 93,000 tenants from many different backgrounds with a diversity in age, education, language, mental and physical ability, religion, ethnicity and race.

We are an essential part of the City of Toronto's fabric and social system. Our over 2,000 employees work to achieve our vision of quality homes in vibrant communities where people are proud to live and work.

Full-time Permanent

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Monday - Friday, 36.25 hours per week

Yes

Non-Union:
Management/Exempt

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In addition to competitive compensation and a rewarding career where you can truly make a difference, we offer a comprehensive package that meets the various needs of our diverse employees, including:

• Ability to participate in inclusive employee-led networks to educate, inspire, amplify voices, build relationships and provide development opportunities;
• Minimum three (3) weeks of paid annual vacation days, increasing with years of service;
• Four (4) paid personal days;
• Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, includes 100-per-cent employer matching;
• Health and dental benefits, including a health spending account available upon your start date;
• Employee and family assistance program;
• Maternity and parental leave top up (93% of base salary);
• Training and development programs including tuition reimbursement of $1500 per calendar year.
• Fitness membership discount;

This job offers the opportunity to work from home as part of a hybrid work arrangement. This arrangement will allow you to work some days at a TCHC work location and the rest of the time from home. The amount of time required to work at a TCHC work location is flexible, while considering operational and service delivery requirements.

Reporting to the Senior Development Director, the Senior Project Manager, Construction will work in a fast paced environment and interact with stakeholders, government agencies, business partners, community partners, tenants and internal staff to plan, organize, and manage external contractors. Leading external construction teams and professional consultants, the Senior Project Manager, Construction is responsible for overseeing the design and construction of TCHC rental housing projects and acting as the main point of contact with the external contractors.

All work is done in coordination with internal teams and in a manner that aligns with TCHC's tenant focused culture.

• Manages the design of building schemes and specifications, ensuring alignment with corporate goals, objectives and design standards along with regulatory requirements
• Provide input and oversight into consultant’s design with respect to cost, constructability and operational effectiveness
• Participate in resident and community meetings and consultations informing the community about the status of design and/or construction and getting feedback on proposed designs
• Meet with, and negotiate with neighboring owners regarding various agreements, including pre-construction surveys, tiebacks and crane swing
• Manages the preparation of materials and timing for review at the TCHC Design Review Panel as it relates to the different projects
• Manages the procurement process for retaining design consultants
• Attends design consultant meetings, and reports back to the project team

• Act as the primary contact for TCHC when managing the third-party contactor
• Provides management and oversight to the construction schedule and budgets for each project including regular reporting to internal finance and other divisions
• Coordinates all administrative aspects of the construction process, including management of consultants, vendors, plan revisions, occupancy date changes, processing of monthly progress draws, etc.
• Preparation of RFQs and RFPs for contractors or consultants as required