Job ID: C10-079

Job Type: Full Time

Job Title: Senior Project Lead

Department: Gas Projects

Location: Calgary

Division: Oil & Gas North America

Reports to: Director Gas Projects

Telvent delivers Information Technology for a sustainable and secure world.  We specialize in solutions with high added value in four specific industrial sectors (Oil & Gas, Electricity, Traffic, and Environment) in the Americas, Europe and China.  With over 40 years experience in industrial control and business process management systems, Telvent executes projects and provides technical services in the field of mission-critical, real-time control and information management.  With a comprehensive portfolio of outsourcing and consulting services, Telvent manages IT and telecommunications infrastructure for an extensive international client base.  At the source of Telvent's success are its people.

This position is assigned to fully qualified professionals and is used to describe those whose work is exclusively focused on the technical definition and leadership of a project.This position will typically be assigned to lead projects that are considered to have an above average risk with respect to technical definition or a requirement for strong leadership. Pilot projects and multi-team projects are other typical assignments.

Detailed responsibilities include:

• Working directly with our Customer's Engineering and Operations staff to determine the requirements of a system
• Guiding other members of the department in the implementation of technical aspects of the project, once the scope of a project is defined
• Completing varied assignments requiring general familiarity with a broad field of technology and knowledge of reciprocal effects of the work upon other fields
• Solving problems using a combination of standard procedures and new approaches when required
• Leadership responsibilities include providing technical guidance to other members of the department
• Training for a person at this level is usually provided on an as needed basis, the individual participates in assessing his/her own abilities and planning for required training, training may be focused on technical or business skills
• Scheduling and are generally responsible for their own time commitments
• Responsibilities include mentoring of senior developers in the skills needed for the Project Leader position where the opportunity is present

General:

• Adaptability and flexibility to change
• Self motivation for learning
• Analytical ability
• Establishing priorities
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Results orientated
• Customer focused
• Team building
• Organization and planning

Technical:

• 8+ years related post-secondary experience in software/systems development, preferably in the SCADA industry
• Specification and technical requirements analysis
• Determine the viability of equipment and systems integrated to the project
• Identify the most appropriate solution based on defined criteria's (profitability, deadlines, risk etc)
• Define and execute FAT and SAT tests of projects

• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline such as Math, Physics or GeoScience, or a Technology Diploma (with 10+ related industry experience)
• An Engineer in this position will be a registered professional in the province and with APEGGA