Job Description The Senior Manager, Estimating & Resource Planning leads estimating and resource planning for new construction projects at Seaspan Shipyards. The role provides cost estimates, resource forecasts, planning analysis, and reporting to support bids, contract changes, program execution, and strategic decision-making. Working across planning, finance, operations, engineering, supply chain, and program teams, the role ensures plans and assumptions are aligned, data-driven, and actionable.
Note: Due to business needs, this position is required to be fully on-site based at 50 Pemberton Avenue, North Vancouver.
What you’ll do
Lead and continuously improve estimating and resource planning processes, tools, reporting, and governance.
Develop and validate labour, material, and overhead estimates for bids, proposals, and contract changes.
Establish labour rates and estimating assumptions across engineering, planning, and production activities.
Interpret project scope and apply estimating methodologies to determine production costs.
Develop material cost estimates using vendor quotes, historical data, and benchmark information.
Apply overhead and cost assumptions in partnership with Finance and key stakeholders.
Lead medium- and long-term resource forecasting to support capacity planning and business strategy.
Align resource plans with project schedules, facilities plans, capital investments, and operational capacity.
Support contract change work, growth opportunities, and emerging scope requirements.
Assess labour and material savings opportunities for capital and process improvement initiatives.
Maintain estimating databases, productivity metrics, and historical cost information.
Deliver management reporting, forecasts, dashboards,



and recommendations to support decision-making.
Mentor and develop team members while providing leadership across cross-functional teams.
What you’ll bring
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, project management, operations management or a related field;
master’s degree or equivalent professional qualification is desirable.
10–15 years of progressive experience in estimating, resource planning, project controls, production planning, facilities planning or project management within shipbuilding, marine, defense or large industrial manufacturing environments.
Minimum 5 years of management, supervisory or functional leadership experience, including leading teams, developing capability and influencing across a matrix organization.
Demonstrated experience supporting bids, proposals, contract change work, resource forecasts, Integrated Master Schedules and/or Earned Value Management in complex project environments.
Experience with Government contracts, major capital projects or regulated defense / marine programs is highly desirable.
Why you’ll love working here
This is a full-time, permanent position. With multiple operations and long-term projects, Seaspan employees enjoy job stability as we look ahead to build ships for decades to come.
In addition to an annual bonus and pension plan matching, this role provides you with a very market-competitive salary in line with the successful candidate’s experience.
We also provide the best-in-class health and wellness benefits package for this position, including things such as extended health care (i.E. paramedical services for massage therapy, speech therapy, mental health coverage, physiotherapy, and more), dental care, vision care, life insurance, medical leave coverage, parental leave coverage, $500 personal spending

📌 Senior Manager, Estimating & Resource Planning (North Vancouver)
🏢 Seaspan
📍 North Vancouver