Reporting to the CEO, the Capital Projects Manager is responsible for leading the planning, execution, oversight, and successful handover of Kalesnikoff’s internal capital projects, including industrial building projects, site infrastructure upgrades, and major manufacturing upgrades and equipment installations.
This role provides clear ownership and accountability from project planning through construction, commissioning, and operational handover. The Capital Projects Manager ensures projects are properly scoped, scheduled, budgeted, documented, and executed safely while coordinating contractors, consultants, suppliers, regulators, and internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Capital Project Management
- Lead assigned capital projects from planning and construction through commissioning, closeout, and handover to Operations, including coordinating and directing internal labour required to complete project work.
- Develop project scopes, schedules, milestones, budgets, and execution plans.
- Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, delays, cost pressures, and resource constraints.
- Provide leadership with clear reporting on project progress, budget performance, risks, delays, and key decisions.
- Ensure project decisions are documented and aligned with approved scope, budget, and business objectives.
- Support strong project governance by ensuring change management, scope changes, budget approvals, and delegation of authority requirements are clearly defined, followed, and documented as projects evolve.
- Support effective capital planning by helping define project assumptions, cost estimates, payback inputs, and implementation requirements.
- Ensure capital projects are delivered with appropriate financial oversight and accountability to minimize cost overruns, scope creep, schedule delays, and operational disruption.
Budget, Schedule & Cost Control
- Maintain integrated project schedules covering construction, installation, commissioning, and turnover milestones.
- Manage project budgets, commitments, change orders, projected final costs, and contingency usage throughout the project lifecycle.
- Review contractor invoices, change orders, commitments, and project costs for accuracy and alignment with approved scope.
- Maintain clear financial visibility for each project, including projected final costs and contingency usage.
Contractor, Consultant & Vendor Management
- Manage all contractors, consultants, vendors, and service providers involved in assigned projects.
- Coordinate contractor work plans, schedules, site access, safety requirements, and deliverables.
- Work with internal Kalesnikoff teams to clearly define internal labour and tasks versus external contractor scope.
- Support tendering, equipment sourcing, vendor evaluation, contract coordination, and negotiations where required.
- Ensure contractors and suppliers deliver work in accordance with scope, quality, timeline, safety requirements, and regulatory expectations.
- Maintain contractor governance requirements, including verification of insurance, WorkSafeBC clearance, competency, compliance documentation, and other prequalification requirements to support safe, effective, and accountable project execution.
Equipment Installation & Asset Delivery
- Lead or support the execution of major manufacturing equipment installations, including coordination between suppliers, contractors, internal teams, and Operations.
- Ensure equipment installation requirements are identified early, including civil, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, controls, utilities, and space planning considerations.
- Coordinate equipment delivery, installation, commissioning readiness, training requirements, documentation, and operational handover.
- Ensure equipment projects include appropriate documentation, drawings, warranties, manuals, training requirements, spare parts information, and maintenance considerations.
- Support smooth integration of new equipment into existing operations while minimizing disruption to production and site activities.
Regulatory Compliance, Permitting & Site Records
- Ensure projects meet applicable regulatory, environmental, permitting, building code, inspection, and jurisdictional requirements.
- Coordinate with internal teams, consultants, contractors, and authorities having jurisdiction to support permitting and inspection requirements.
- Develop and maintain accurate records for Kalesnikoff sites, including underground services, building permits, drawings, compliance upgrades, and related site infrastructure documentation.
- Maintain disciplined site and project records so future projects, inspections, and site decisions are supported by accurate documentation.
Safety Leadership
- Work closely with the Safety department to support incident-free project execution.
- Ensure contractors and internal stakeholders understand and follow Kalesnikoff safety expectations.
- Participate in project risk assessments, pre-job planning, safety meetings, contractor coordination, and issue escalation.
- Model a strong safety-first approach in all project decisions and site activities.
Team Development / Collaboration or Leadership
- Work collaboratively with Operations, Maintenance, Safety, Finance, Engineering, Procurement, Production, and external partners to align project execution with business needs.
- Act as the connecting point between project stakeholders to ensure decisions are coordinated and responsibilities are clear.
- Influence cross-functional teams without always having direct authority.
- Support internal teams in understanding project impacts, timelines, resource needs, and operational readiness requirements.
- Build strong working relationships with contractors, consultants, vendors, regulators, and internal leaders.
- Help create a culture of project ownership, accountability, documentation, and disciplined execution.
Continuous Improvement
- Establish and improve repeatable project management practices for capital projects.
- Identify lessons learned from completed projects and apply them to future work.
- Improve repeatable project controls, reporting, budgeting, contractor management, documentation, and handover processes.
- Help reduce cost overruns, unclear ownership, unmanaged budgets, and informal project coordination by implementing stronger systems and processes.
Requirements:
- Diploma or degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical field.
- Equivalent combinations of education and relevant industrial project experience may be considered.
- PMP designation, engineering designation, or technical certification would be considered an asset.
- 7+ years of experience managing industrial, manufacturing, construction, infrastructure, or capital projects.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-million-dollar projects, including budgets, schedules, contractors, and project execution.
- Experience managing industrial building projects, facility upgrades, and/or major manufacturing equipment installations.
- Experience working with contractors, consultants, suppliers, internal trades, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience working in a manufacturing, forestry, wood products, mass timber, modular construction, or industrial environment would be considered an asset.
- Strong project management skills, including scope development, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, change control, and reporting.
- Strong financial discipline with the ability to monitor project budgets, identify cost risks, and manage budget performance.
- Knowledge of civil, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems.
- Strong contractor and vendor management skills.
- Ability to read and interpret drawings, layouts, specifications, project schedules, and technical documentation.
- Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and lead projects in a fast-paced operating environment.
- Ability to work in CAD to produce layouts and general arrangements would be considered an asset.
- Wood products manufacturing knowledge, PLC knowledge, construction experience, or structural engineering knowledge would be considered an asset.
Work Conditions:
- Location: Castlegar
- Regular travel between sites.
- Use of Personal Protective Equipment will be required when entering industrial facilities (e.g. hard-hat, safety boots, etc.).
- Occasional exposure to dust, noise, and fumes when visiting various sites.
- Overtime as required.
At Kalesnikoff, working safely is an expectation. In your role you will have the time and resources needed to meet that expectation.
Compensation Package:
- Salary: $129,760.00 – $162,200.00 (dependent on experience)
- Extended health benefits including health, dental, vision, travel, Health Spending Account and RRSP program
- Team building and social events
- Training, development, and mentorship opportunities
- Opportunity to advance in your career
- Work-life balance
- A great culture where we truly value our employees
How to apply:
To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter to [email protected].
Our recruitment team reviews all applications carefully. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Due to the high volume of applications, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
About our Kootenay home:
Are the mountains calling you? From beautiful parks and forests, pristine lakes, breathtaking valleys and stunning mountain ranges, the West Kootenay region is a highly desired and special place to call home. With an abundance of recreation including ski areas, golf courses, hot springs, and endless hiking, biking and other outdoor activities, the Kootenays isn’t just a region, it’s a lifestyle. Our vibrant mountain towns are full of arts, culture, food, history and caring communities. What are you doing after work today?
Equal opportunity commitment:
Kalesnikoff is a committed equal opportunity employer. Our recruitment strategy is designed to attract the best person for each position, to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants, and to promote our corporate vision and culture. When considering applicants, only job-related criteria such as ability, merit and responsibility are used to evaluate applicants. Kalesnikoff prohibits discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law.
Kalesnikoff is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. Kalesnikoff believes in integration and equal opportunity. Kalesnikoff is committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner and will do so by identifying barriers to accessibility and meeting accessibility standards in accordance with applicable law.
