Job Description & How to Apply Below
What is the Opportunity?
The Deputy Project Director provides senior leadership, oversight, and integration for the assigned scope on the Darlington New Nuclear Project. Working with the Project Director, this role helps ensure work is planned, controlled, and executed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with project objectives, contract requirements, quality standards, and construction needs. The Deputy Project Director provides visible leadership across construction readiness, project controls, engineering, procurement, quality, safety, and field execution.
The Deputy Project Director ensures the team has the direction, resources, governance, and decision support needed to advance work, manage constraints, resolve issues, and meet schedule, cost, quality, and safety commitments. The position maintains an integrated view of execution readiness, cost and schedule performance, quantity changes, risks and opportunities, equipment and material procurement, turnover planning, and lessons learned for the assigned scope.
As a senior project leader, the Deputy Project Director aligns the Project Director and functional teams so decisions are consistent, deliberate, transparent, and supportive of construction execution. The position reports to the Project Director.
What You'll Do Here
Provide senior leadership and direction to support collaboration across internal teams, partners, subcontractors, and stakeholders.
Support the Project Director in setting and reinforcing the vision for project success, including contract obligations, execution priorities, and performance expectations.
Ensure a minimum Level 3 schedule is established, maintained, and aligned with construction, reflecting planned work, sequencing, constraints, and quality requirements.
Ensure a minimum Class 3 cost estimate is maintained, with accurate forecasting, trend identification, and cost‑saving or productivity opportunities.
Work with Project Controls, Engineering, and Construction to monitor quantity changes, coordinate takeoffs, limit growth, and keep forecasts and schedules current.
Lead adherence to the DNNP Readiness Procedure, including prerequisite and execution readiness activities.
Coordinate schedule and risk reviews with construction, engineering, safety, quality, procurement, and subcontractors to confirm logistics, execution strategy, controls, and schedule compliance.
Manage assigned risks and opportunities under the DNNP Functional Plan – Project Controls, including identification, mitigation, escalation, and follow‑through.
Prepare and sequence construction work with Engineering and Construction, including constructability reviews, work‑package documentation, and related engineering work‑packages.
Provide technical direction to Construction during preparation and execution, including support for field changes and technical constraints.
Monitor field execution, maintain regular site presence, and address schedule, cost, quality, and productivity variances within delegated authority.
Support safe, efficient execution of assigned scope in compliance with quality requirements, procedures, and project commitments.
Manage engineered equipment and material procurement interfaces to support construction priorities and address constraints and risks.
Ensure turnover packages are planned and prepared progressively, aligned with quality, commissioning, handover, and completion requirements.
Resolve issues, implement recovery plans as needed, and escalate matters affecting safety, quality, cost, schedule, or contract commitments.
Report on progress, cost, schedule, risks, opportunities, procurement, field issues, and recovery actions to support decisions.
Ensure lessons learned are documented, reviewed, and translated into actions that improve planning, readiness, execution, and turnover.
Act for the Project Director when required, providing leadership coverage, decision support, and project representation within delegated authority.
What You Bring To The Team
15+ years of progressive experience in large construction, nuclear, energy, infrastructure, or EPC projects, with accountability for execution performance.
Post‑secondary education in…
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