Pre-construction Project Manager

VINCI Construction Grands Projets Canada

a subsidiary of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, part of the VINCI Group, construction worldwide leader, specialized in the design and construction of major civil engineering and building works in Canada.

The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station refurbishment program involves designing and building a new deep-water intake in Lake Ontario to improve the plant's cooling system.

• A 5 km-long tunnel, built by a pressurized TBM (10.15 m diameter slurry TBM);
• Two vertical shafts (onshore and offshore);
• An offshore modular intake structure, resting on the lake bed.

The project is distinguished by its proximity to an active nuclear site, requiring rigorous standards of safety, planning and coordination.

You will play a key role in leading and coordinating the project readiness by ensuring strong internal alignment, coordination, and synchronization across all departments. You will ensure that all teams work in full coherence toward readiness milestones, reviews, liberations of areas, and client deliverables. You will serve as the central point for documentation and formal exchanges with the Client, ensuring clarity, compliance, and timely approvals.

In addition, you will contribute to Lean initiatives aimed at improving processes, reducing waste, and increasing efficiency across engineering, construction, and support functions.

• Lead the overall Readiness Program, ensuring that all project departments are aligned on upcoming milestones, prerequisites, and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain retro‑planning, readiness dashboards, and KPIs.
• Organize, lead, and document Readiness Meetings with internal teams, ensuring issues are identified, escalated, and solved early.
• Maintain the Readiness Register, ensuring full traceability, clear owners, deadlines, evidence, and closure.
• Identify interface gaps or misalignments early and drive collaborative resolution.
• Support departments in structuring their inputs/outputs, ensuring consistency and eliminating gaps.
• Maintain traceability of cross-functional exchanges (requests, decisions, impacts, constraints).
• Facilitate clear understanding of responsibilities, boundaries, and shared tasks across teams.

• Act as the focal point for Client interactions related to readiness and interfaces.
• Prepare and coordinate Client documentation such as MOUs, readiness review dossiers, comprehensive work packages, windows analysis files, and other required submissions.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant delivery to the Client.
• Support external stakeholders’ alignment with the project’s readiness roadmap.
• Work closely with Project Controls to ensure alignment of planning, risks, and readiness sequencing.
• Ensure readiness and interface topics are integrated into project governance.
• Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and recurring coordination issues.
• Lead or contribute to Lean initiatives such as Process mapping & simplification, Waste reduction (planning waste, rework, information gaps, waiting time, etc.), Standardization of readiness workflows, templates, and reporting, Improvement of cross‑department communication flows.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

• Comply with VINCI’s Quality Management System and project‑specific procedures.
• Promote the 4R concept (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover).
• Support environmental protection measures related to offshore and lakebed operations.
• Ensure that interface management integrates safety constraints, regulatory requirements, and nuclear‑regulated obligations.
• Degree in Civil engineering or equivalent.
• 5–10 years of experience in large‑scale infrastructure projects (civil, marine, tunnelling, or similar).
• 7 years of experience in project control, scheduling, readiness, interface management, project engineering, or coordination roles involving multiple stakeholders and technical disciplines.
• Strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Excellent problem‑solving abilities and a proactive mindset for identifying and resolving…