Employment Status: Regular Time Type: Full time

BUILDING A WORLD CLASS TEAM STARTS WITH YOU At the heart of CSA Group is a vision: making the world a better, safer, more sustainable place. It's been part of our mission for nearly one hundred years: from the first engineering standard for railway bridges developed in 1919, to more than 3,500 standards, codes & related products today. Headquartered in Canada, with a global footprint of more than 30 labs and offices across Europe, Asia and North America, CSA Group tests, inspects and certifies a wide range of products - from every day househould items to leading edge technology-to meet exacting requirements for safety, performance and environmental impact. Our employees take pride in making a difference in people's lives through the work that we do. We're looking for people like you to help make it happen.

Job Summary

CSA Group has an immediate opportunity for a Project Manager, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) reporting to the Program Manager, Data and Agri-Food. In this challenging and rewarding role, you will interact with industry experts, academia, researchers, and government officials, facilitating technical discussions and promoting consensus to develop leading-edge standards solutions. Working with stakeholders and applying industry knowledge, you will identify and assess new business opportunities. CSA’s ICT standards team manages a portfolio of standards and guidelines that cover various areas in the information and communications technologies such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, IoT, data, advanced manufacturing, intelligent cities, and more. Facilitative and customer-driven,



you develop practical standards-based solutions that address stakeholder needs while supporting innovation, trust, safety, sustainability and economic efficiency. You have proven, well-developed decision-making, stakeholder engagement and communication skills, along with exceptional organizational abilities. You show initiative and are motivated, resilient and flexible. Detail and process orientation is important, as is the ability to work well with people at all levels and with divergent interests.

Responsibilities

- Developing and supporting new standards solutions within functional application domains (such as intelligent buildings, advanced manufacturing, etc.) by leveraging existing ICT standards and best practices.
- Conduct road mapping exercises to highlight standards gaps and opportunities
- Facilitating the development of standards by CSA Group volunteer committee members, including convening in-person and virtual meetings.
- Developing and maintaining key stakeholder relationships.
- Establishing and actively managing project processes and schedules, resource requirements (e.g., funding, personnel), costs, quality and risk.
- Day-to-day management of committee activities, including maintaining records and draft standards.
- Collaborating with committee leadership (Chair, Vice-Chair) to manage committee operations and membership, including member recruitment.
- Liaising with internal and external partners including clients, management,



editorial and production, legal and finance to deliver projects and to develop new business opportunities.
- Participating on internal task teams as required (e.g., business or process improvement, research).

This agile role requires a sound understanding of the various processes and procedures of CSA Group, many of which are mandated under the accreditation by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). A key element of the Project Manager role is to ensure that these processes and procedures are adhered to, and that project timelines are achieved within the defined budget.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related area of study

Experience

Minimum 5-10 years of relevant experience, including 3-5 years of experience in a product/systems application environment

Experience in developing and articulating ICT-based system level solutions within functional application domains

Acquired knowledge of the standards’ industry, government policy, industry landscape and funding/business models would be an asset.

Experience working with volunteers and/or multi-stakeholder groups would be an asset.

Skills

- Strong technical understanding of one or more areas in the ICT sector such as data management, security, privacy, Quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, AI systems, system integration, web services, and others.
- Excellent people skills: managing relationships, facilitating and networking with people at all levels with divergent interests, backgrounds and goals.
- Highly developed oral and written communication skills, including experience and comfort with delive

📌 Project Manager (Toronto)
🏢 Canadian Standards Association Group
📍 Toronto