Accenture Construct - Readiness Manager, COM

Construction Management | Engineering | Project Management | Technical Advisory | Full-time

Job No. 1653 | Toronto

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You'll work alongside people who think big and act bold: project managers, engineers, technologists and strategists who pair real-world delivery with AI. And you won't be handed a slice of it. We take on whole programs, from early strategy through construction and handover, and we stand behind how they land.

Because “positive enough” builds the past. You're here to build what's next.

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The Readiness Manager for the Metrolinx plays a central role in ensuring that client successfully prepares the extension for operational handover. The position leads operational readiness across design, construction, systems integration, commissioning, safety assurance, and handover

- (Internal Title: Project Management IV)
- Operational Readiness Leadership
- Lead Client’s operational readiness strategy and roadmap
- Coordinate readiness across engineering, construction, operations, and safety teams

- Testing, Commissioning & Trial Operations

- Support commissioning planning, integrated testing, and trial operations





- Development & maintenance of readiness documentation (System Safety Certification Strategy, System Definition Document, CPG Recommendation Reports, Risk Assessment Completion Declarations, Panel Presentations, Hazard Record, etc.)
- Planning, executing & attending all imminent and future readiness panels and submissions to key-in with project timelines, including SRP/ORP/ISA/MSCC.
- Coordinating documented 'low/high risk' appraisals with SSA/ISA for all project scope.
- Attending recurring Readiness Control Board & ISA touchpoints.
- Weekly touchpoints with Mx PDT to track scope-specific progress related to readiness submissions, adjust readiness strategy and forecasting & collect updated submittals.
- Continuous improvement and streamlining of readiness process and future planning to reduce friction in readiness coordination with ORP/SRP/SSA/ISA.
- Operations & Maintenance Readiness

- Oversee operational documentation, training materials, and asset information Asset Handover & Contractual Deliverables:

- Risk Management and Reporting

- Maintain readiness risk register and prepare executive reporting

- Working Conditions
- Office-based (5 Days in Office)

- Experience
- 7–10 years' experience in major transit or infrastructure projects
- Minimum of 12 years of experience in Project Management

- Education





- Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Transportation, or related field, or relevant demonstrable experience

- Licenses OR Certifications

- Holding a recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

- Skills and Competencies

- Strong knowledge of commissioning, systems integration, and operations
- Robust understanding of prevailing Project Management methods
- Extensive knowledge of tools and metrics needed to evaluate project performance
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
- Proficient in Project Management software
- Must maintain professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices
- Ability to arrange priorities and elevate competing risks to meet deadlines with minimum input from leadership
- Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities
- Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving information (written and verbal)
- Expert ability to work collaboratively and independently in a structured, disciplined, technology-driven environment
- Proven capacity to anticipate, identify, and minimize risks
- Expert ability to detect, capitalize, and be sensitive to others' strengths
- Demonstrated capability to supervise, delegate, and develop capacity
- Tact to perceive and ameliorate conflict and tension
- Effectively leads multi-resource Project Management teams
- Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment by ensuring effective teamwork, promotion of innovation, and overall excellence
- Demonstrated functional acumen to support ho

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