Project Manager

Location: Calgary, Alberta Reports to: Team Lead – Calgary Design-Build Job Posting#: 130 Application Deadline: August 29, 2025

Reporting to the Team Lead – Calgary Design-Build, the Project Manager is responsible for the overall execution of turnkey design-build projects, including underground and overhead electrical distribution (4 kV to 25 kV), communications infrastructure, and street lighting systems.

Role Overview

- Deliver multiple concurrent turnkey projects on time and on budget, from client engagement through design and construction to energization, while maintaining high quality standards.

- Lead estimating, procurement coordination, construction oversight, and project closeout, with clear communication to clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Project Delivery

- Prepare takeoffs, estimates, and proposals, including engineering inputs, materials procurement, construction scope, and closeout activities.

- Manage materials inventory and coordinate logistics to meet schedule and quality targets.

- Attend off-site meetings, site visits, and field inspections.

Client & Stakeholder Management

- Coordinate with customers, municipal authorities, utilities, and other stakeholders to support seamless execution.

- Proactively consult with clients to develop solutions aligned to their business needs.

- Communicate clearly to mitigate risks, align expectations, and maintain stakeholder satisfaction.

- Support project acquisition, sales, and customer relationship development.

Operations & Reporting

- Manage and report on project schedules, costs, risks, and communications.

- Provide peer mentoring and training to team members.

Qualifications (Required)

- 5+ years of relevant experience at an intermediate or higher level in design-build or electrical utility design, planning, or quoting.

- Diploma in Civil or Electrical Engineering Technology, or a degree in Electrical or Civil Engineering.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel).

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

- Proven collaboration with multidisciplinary teams (drafting, construction, survey, civil).

- Strong organization and time management with high attention to detail.

- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision; passion for excellence.

Assets (Preferred)

- Eng., P.L.(Eng.), or equivalent.

- Project management education: PMP (PMI).

- Estimating experience, including estimating system development.

Requirements

- Strong commitment to safety and ethical work practices.

- Ability to prioritize and manage competing demands within schedule and budget constraints.

- Valid Class 5 driver’s licence and willingness to travel to project sites as needed.

ABOUT US

Primary Engineering and Construction Corporation (Primary) is a growth-oriented industry leader providing professional electrical engineering and construction services and specializing in emerging marketplaces in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

We offer design and design/build services for all types of electric utility distribution infrastructure to a wide variety of clients including electric utility companies, developers, builders, commercial and industrial businesses, oil companies, government, and private contractors. Our devotion to excellence has attracted some of the best young professional minds to our company.

Primary is the proud recipient of EHRC's Workplace Culture Innovator Award, recognizing our commitment to fostering a health, inclusive, and positive work environment.

Primary is recognized

by The Career Directory

for excellence in graduate recruitment.

GOOD PEOPLE committed to progress

Primary is committed to growing the careers of our people. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to determine their career path and fulfill their ambitions. Our people are genuine, honest, accountable and full of entrepreneurial spirit.

We work hard, see the big picture, are always ready and willing to adapt, and always strive to be better than we were yesterday. We take pride and ownership in everything we do, and most of all, we do it as a team.

HEALTH & SAFETY

The safety and well-being of our people, our clients, and our communities is our top priority in any work we do and is never comprised. Safety is one of the core values that every member of our team understands and lives by, and we ensure this through communication, education and participation. Our safety goal has always been zero incidents, and we work together through every project to achieve that goal.

Safety is ingrained in every project and each task our employees and contractors complete, whether in the office or onsite. Primary has developed effective workplace health and safety management programs designed to reduce and eliminate the number of work-related injuries, leading to a safety track record well above industry average. We are also diligent in selecting the companies we work with, choosing only those with a safety standard as high as our own.