Project Management Director

Socomec Group (Socomec) is a global leader in electrical equipment engineering and manufacturing, specialized in low voltage energy performance.
Socomec North America (NAM) is Socomec’s organization overseeing all operations in North America.

About This Role

This role requires a strong understanding of the power/electrical industry and the realities of complex engineering projects, including project timelines, technical dependencies, resource constraints, and cross-functional coordination. The PMD must also bring strong people leadership and project management experience to create structure around engineering teams, remove obstacles, and allow technical leaders to stay focused on engineering and delivery.

The Project Management Director (PMD) ensures consistent, transparent, and disciplined execution of all projects across Socomec PCO North America. This includes both product development and operational initiatives, ensuring that schedules, budgets, risks, and deliverables remain aligned with business priorities and approved baselines.

The PMD ensures that multi-functional and multi-location teams operate under a unified governance framework, with clearly defined interfaces, expectations, and accountability.

At the strategic level, the role ensures schedule predictability, cost control, and risk visibility across the portfolio - providing management with the insight required to make informed and timely business decisions.

Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities

Governance & Accountability
• Ensures that every project operates under clearly defined governance boundaries for scope, schedule, and budget.
• Ensures that limits of delegated authority are defined, communicated, and understood by all participants.

Project Planning and Execution
• Develop comprehensive project plans outlining scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Execute project plans, monitor progress, and ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget. Ensures that all proposed changes are assessed for cost, schedule, and risk impact before submission for approval.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, manufacturing, quality control, and external vendors. Ensures that resource assignments, time estimates, and major milestone activities are agreed upon.

Team Leadership
• Lead, mentor, and motivate a multidisciplinary project team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Effectively communicate project objectives, expectations, and updates to team members and stakeholders.

Risk Management
• Ensures that projects maintain an active risk and issue register, that mitigation and containment plans are documented, and that escalation occurs promptly whenever delivery or budget objectives are at risk.

Stakeholder Communication
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior management, clients, suppliers, and regulatory bodies.
• Provide regular project updates and reports to senior management and stakeholders.
• Ensures accurate, live visibility of project and portfolio status, enabling stakeholders to access progress, risks, and resource utilization through the business intelligence environment without the need for manual reporting.

Budget Management
• Develop and manage project budgets
• Control expenditures, and take appropriate measures to ensure that the overall business plan is achieved

Quality Assurance
• Ensures that all project management activities align with the Quality Management System and that documentation supports internal and external audits.
• Conduct regular reviews and audits to ensure compliance with quality standards.
Safety
• Develop and promote a culture of prevention across the project team
• Assess risks at the earliest stage and implement the appropriate means of prevention
• Update, inform and apply safety guidelines

Essential Qualifications, Experience, And Skills

• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in project management, with a focus on high-power UPS systems or related technologies.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated success in leading and delivering complex engineering projects on time and within budget.
• Proven experience in project management, particularly in the field of high-power UPS systems.
• Strong technical background in electrical engineering with an emphasis on power systems.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with relevant industry standards and regulations.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize effectively.
• Successfully cultivated and managed strong relationships with key market stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), interpersonal skills and networking/collaboration abilities.
• Focused on the achievement of strategic goals; consistently meets or exceeds targets.
• Manages risks; anticipates and communicates in advance any potential issues and their impact.

Compensation range: $170,000 - $200,000 CAD

Upon request, we will provide reasonable accommodation for disabilities to support participation of candidates in all aspects of the recruitment process. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

All applications are reviewed directly by the Socomec North America Talent Acquisition team and other human reviewers. No automated or AI‑based systems are used to make decisions in the application review process.

We thank all those who apply. However, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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