Deputy Project Director

About the Role The Deputy Project Director provides senior leadership, oversight, and integration for the assigned scope on the Darlington New Nuclear Project. Working with the Project Director, this role ensures work is planned, controlled, and executed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with project objectives, contract requirements, quality standards, and construction needs. This position leads across construction readiness, project controls, engineering, procurement, quality, safety, and field execution, ensuring the team has direction, resources, governance, and decision support to meet schedule, cost, quality, and safety commitments. What You'll Do

• Provide senior leadership and direction to support collaboration across internal teams, partners, subcontractors, and stakeholders.
• Support the Project Director in setting and reinforcing the vision for project success, including contract obligations, execution priorities, and performance expectations.
• Ensure a minimum Level 3 schedule is established, maintained, and aligned with construction, reflecting planned work, sequencing, constraints, and quality requirements.
• Ensure a minimum Class 3 cost estimate is maintained, with accurate forecasting, trend identification, and cost-saving or productivity opportunities.
• Work with Project Controls, Engineering, and Construction to monitor quantity changes, coordinate takeoffs, limit growth, and keep forecasts and schedules current.
• Lead adherence to the DNNP Readiness Procedure, including prerequisite and execution readiness activities.
• Coordinate schedule and risk reviews with construction, engineering, safety, quality, procurement, and subcontractors to confirm logistics, execution strategy, controls, and schedule compliance.
• Manage assigned risks and opportunities under the DNNP Functional Plan – Project Controls. What We're Looking For
• Demonstrated senior leadership, oversight, and integration across cross-functional teams to advance work while managing constraints, resolving issues, and delivering schedule, cost, quality, and safety commitments.
• Ability to align the Project Director and functional teams to ensure decisions are consistent, deliberate, transparent, and supportive of construction execution.
• Experience coordinating with internal teams, partners, subcontractors, and stakeholders to deliver complex construction programs. Compensation & Benefits
• Safety Always is a core value; safety of our people, projects, partners, and stakeholders is a priority today and always.
• Development opportunities through Aecon University, tuition reimbursement, and Leadership Programs.
• Inclusive culture with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), partnerships with Veteran groups, Aecon Women in Trades, and diversity programs.
• Services and benefits to support mental, emotional, and physical well-being.