Senior Architect/Project Manager (Major Aviation Infrastructure)

Job Description

WW+P is seeking a licensed Senior Architect / Project Manager to join our Toronto Studio and support the delivery of a major aviation infrastructure project.

The successful candidate will be an experienced leader with a proven track record managing complex projects through planning, design, documentation, and construction. This role requires strong project management skills, exceptional client relationship management, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary consultant and project teams in a fast-paced, highly regulated airport environment.

This individual will be responsible for project delivery, team leadership, budget and schedule management, quality assurance, stakeholder coordination, and client engagement while ensuring project objectives are achieved efficiently and to the highest design and technical standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as Project Manager and senior architectural lead on complex aviation, transportation, and institutional projects.
• Manage project scope, budgets, schedules, resources, risks, and deliverables throughout all project phases.
• Lead multidisciplinary consultant teams through planning, design, construction documentation, tendering, and construction administration.
• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, stakeholders, authorities having jurisdiction, and project partners.
• Oversee quality management processes and ensure technical excellence across all project deliverables.
• Coordinate closely with contractors, engineers, specialty consultants, and operations representatives.
• Facilitate project meetings, design reviews, stakeholder workshops, and decision-making processes.
• Mentor and support project staff while fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing across project teams.
• Identify project risks and develop practical solutions to maintain schedule, budget, and project objectives.
• Support business development activities, proposal development, and client relationship management as required.

Key Outcomes

• Successfully delivers complex aviation infrastructure projects while maintaining scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
• Builds trusted relationships with the Client, project partners, consultants, contractors, and key stakeholders.
• Leads multidisciplinary teams effectively, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance.
• Proactively identifies and manages project risks, constraints, and opportunities to support successful project outcomes.
• Provides clear leadership and timely decision-making in a fast-paced, evolving airport environment.
• Ensures the delivery of coordinated, high-quality design and construction documentation that balances technical excellence, operational continuity, and client expectations.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master of Architecture degree from an accredited program.
• Registered Architect (OAA)
• 15+ years of professional experience, including significant project management responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience delivering large, complex institutional, transportation, aviation, healthcare, or public infrastructure projects is considered an asset.
• Strong understanding of all project phases from concept design through IFC documentation and construction.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary consultant teams and coordinating technical deliverables.
• Thorough knowledge of the Ontario Building Code, National Building Code, accessibility requirements, and applicable industry standards.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and project management tools.
• Working knowledge of Revit is considered an asset.

Core Competencies

• Strategic leadership and decision-making.
• Strong client relationship and stakeholder management skills.
• Exceptional planning, organizational, and time-management abilities.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in complex project environments.
• Critical thinking and creative problem-solving.
• Sound judgment and risk management capabilities.
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Effective communicator who can build trust and consensus among diverse stakeholders.
• Collaborative team leader with mentoring and coaching abilities.
• Self-motivated, accountable, and results oriented.

Preferred Experience

• Aviation, transit, or other operationally complex infrastructure projects.
• Progressive Design-Build (PDB), Design-Build, P3 or other alternative delivery models.
• Phased construction and projects requiring operational continuity during construction.
• Experience working directly with owners, contractors, and joint venture teams on large capital programs.

Additional Information

WW+P offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

• Full Health and Dental benefits, including a $1000 Health and Wellness Spending Account.
• Parental Leave top-up of 75% for 13 weeks*
• A generous Professional Development Allowance of $1500, as well as covering licensing fees.
• A Group Retirement Savings Plan with a matching component.
• A generous amount of vacation, sick and personal time, as well as a studio-wide closure over the holidays in December.
• Flexible work hours; and
• Engaging and fun social events, with opportunities to participate throughout the year including ski days, holiday parties, weekly forums, design work shops and more!

*after 6 months of service

The salary range for this role is $100,000 to $130,000 commensurate based on experience and level.

How do I apply?

Candidates may apply through our HR platform.

As an employer committed to employment equity, WW+P encourages applications from members of equity-seeking communities, including women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions. We encourage members of equity-seeking groups to self-identify within the cover letter in their application.

If you require any form of accommodation during the application process, please let us know how we can assist.