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Req ID: 205075
Location: Central Zone, Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII
Department: QERD Sr Dir QEII RedevelopmentPrjt ML
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100%) x 1
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 2-Jul-25

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About the Opportunity

Nova Scotia Health (NSH) provides sustainable, safe and high-quality health services that are accessible, people-centered, promote health and wellness and optimize the health of all Nova Scotians. The QEII New Generation Project is an initiative to realign care and services from the aging Victoria and Centennial buildings on the Victoria General Site of the QEII Health Sciences Centre. The initiative is the largest healthcare infrastructure project to take place in Nova Scotia. As part of this work, the QEII Health Sciences Centre's tertiary, quaternary care and research and academic mandates are addressed in the planning, design and construction phases.
Reporting to the Clinical Planning Manager for QEII New Generation, the Project Manager is responsible for the planning, coordination, and project management of assigned projects within the QEII New Generation project and is responsible for managing the gathering of requirements across the entire project and integrating these requirements into the overall project specifications and schedules. Included in this would be participating and supporting functional design planning, specification writing, drawing review, cost estimation, scheduling, evaluation, commissioning, and document coordination. This includes overseeing consultants and contractors and interfacing with stakeholders and clinicians to ensure projects are delivered within budget and to project milestone dates and, most importantly, meeting the objectives of the project.

Responsibilities

This role will have responsibilities including, but not limited to:

Following all processes, policies and approaches to support leadership engagement and consultation throughout the planning, design, construction stages of assigned capital projects.
Ensuring that project documentation is completed from initiation to close out. This includes (but is not limited to) functional planning, project charters, budgets, cash flows, meeting minutes, contracts, change orders, contemplated change orders, change directives, substantial completion documents, inspections, holdback release, final payment, legal release of liability, and liens.
Developing a risk matrix log along with mitigations for each project.
Engaging Infection control and all workstream practitioners prior to starting projects and liaise with them throughout the project duration.
Lead the reviewing process for drawings and specifications, as required (including contributing to development and review of specifications/PSOS)
Gather clinical/technical requirements with clinical teams; knowledge translation, product selection support, including participating in user group meetings (UGMs)
Provide regular information to be used in implementation and monitoring of project KPIs

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

Registered Engineer (in N.S.) in a relevant Engineering discipline having 3-5 years project management experience; OR
3-5 years of project management experience in a Building Infrastructure or HealthCare Environment.
Project Management Professional certification (asset)
Bachelor's degree in a health-related area, business, architecture, or engineering
3-5 years' experience in health care environment or equivalent, working with dynamic teams and managing complex, large-scale projects
Project management experience
Certified Health Executive (CHE) designation an asset
Experience in infrastructure projects, healthcare construction projects, or clinical background an asset

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

Hours

Long Assignment Full Time / 75 Hours Bi-weekly
Approx. dates July 2025 to July 2030

Compensation and Benefits

$40.95 - $51.19 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.

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