Major Projects Director - Defence and Federal Infrastructure

Major Projects Director - Defence and Federal Infrastructure

Location: Canada (Flexible) 

Who are we looking for?

GHD is seeking a highly experienced Major Projects Director - Defence and Federal Infrastructureto support the pursuit, development, and delivery of some of Canada's most significant and complex infrastructure programs.

This role is suited to a senior leader with a demonstrated history of delivering large-scale capital programs in challenging environments. The successful candidate will bring exceptional leadership, commercial acumen, stakeholder management expertise, and the ability to guide multidisciplinary teams through all phases of project execution.

Projects may include defence infrastructure, remote developments, and other nationally significant infrastructure initiatives involving complex logistics, multiple delivery partners, and significant stakeholder engagement.

This individual will play a key role in shaping major opportunities from strategic pursuit through delivery while helping strengthen GHD's capability in large-scale program management and infrastructure delivery.

Working with an energetic and high-performing team, this role will involve:

Program Leadership

Lead major infrastructure programs from opportunity development and pursuit through execution and closeout.

Provide executive leadership across complex multidisciplinary project teams.

Establish program governance, delivery frameworks, execution strategies, and performance measures.

Develop and implement risk management, commercial management, and stakeholder engagement strategies.

Client and Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client representatives, government officials, delivery partners, and project stakeholders.

• Build and maintain strong working relationships across complex stakeholder environments.

• Support major pursuits, presentations, interviews, and strategic growth initiatives.

Project Delivery Excellence

• Oversee the successful delivery of large-scale infrastructure programs with accountability for schedule, budget, risk, quality, and resourcing.

• Lead integrated teams operating within collaborative delivery, contracting models

• Provide strategic oversight of project controls, commercial performance, change management, procurement strategies, and program reporting.

• Guide delivery teams through complex operational, logistical, regulatory, and stakeholder challenges.

Leadership & Team Development

• Mentor and develop future project and program leaders.

• Help build and strengthen GHD's project delivery capability across Canada.

• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

What you will bring to the team:

• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Architecture, or a related discipline.

• 15+ years of progressive experience leading major infrastructure, industrial, mining, transportation, energy, aviation, defence, or federal programs.

• Demonstrated success leading large multidisciplinary teams within highly complex project environments.

• Experience delivering major capital projects + 300 million

• Strong understanding of program governance, commercial management, project controls, risk management, and strategic delivery planning.

• Proven experience managing projects delivered through collaborative and alternative delivery models including Design-Build, Modified Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build.

• Experience delivering defence, federal, aviation, mining, industrial, energy, remote development, or other major infrastructure programs would be considered an asset.

• Experience delivering projects in remote, logistically challenging, operationally constrained, or geographically dispersed environments.