VINCI Construction Grands Projets Canada, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, part of the VINCI Group, construction worldwide leader, specialized in the design and construction of major civil engineering and building works in Canada is hiring a


                        Interface/Readiness Manager

 

What you will do:


You will lead and coordinate the project readiness by ensuring strong internal alignment, coordination, and synchronization across all departments. The role’s primary mission is to ensure that all teams work in full coherence toward readiness milestones, reviews, liberations of areas, and client deliverables. The manager also acts as the central point for documentation and formal exchanges with the Client, ensuring clarity, compliance, and timely approvals. In addition, the role contributes to Lean initiatives aimed at improving processes, reducing waste, and increasing efficiency across engineering, construction, and support functions.


Concretely, your tasks will be:

Readiness

• Lead the overall Readiness Program, ensuring that all project departments are aligned on upcoming milestones, prerequisites, and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain retro‑planning, readiness dashboards, and KPIs.
• Organize, lead, and document Readiness Meetings with internal teams, ensuring issues are identified, escalated, and solved early.
• Maintain the Readiness Register, ensuring full traceability, clear owners, deadlines, evidence, and closure.
• Identify interface gaps or misalignments early and drive collaborative resolution.
• Support departments in structuring their inputs/outputs, ensuring consistency and eliminating gaps,
• Maintain traceability of cross-functional exchanges (requests, decisions, impacts, constraints).
• Facilitate clear understanding of responsibilities, boundaries, and shared tasks across teams.

Coordination & Reporting

• Act as the focal point for Client interactions related to readiness and interfaces.
• Prepare and coordinate Client documentation such as MOUs, readiness review dossiers, comprehensive work packages, windows analysis files, and other required submissions.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant delivery to the Client.
• Support external stakeholders’ alignment with the project’s readiness roadmap.
• Work closely with Project Controls to ensure alignment of planning, risks, and readiness sequencing.
• Ensure readiness and interface topics are integrated into project governance.

Lean & Continuous Improvement

• Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and recurring coordination issues.
• Lead or contribute to Lean initiatives such as Process mapping & simplification, Waste reduction (planning waste, rework, information gaps, waiting time, etc.),
• Standardization of readiness workflows, templates, and reporting, Improvement of cross‑department communication flows
  
  

HSE & Compliance

• Comply with VINCI’s Quality Management System and project-specific procedures.
  
  

Yous skills:

• Degree in Civil engineering or equivalent
• 5–10 years of experience in large‑scale infrastructure projects (civil, marine, tunnelling, energy, rail or similar).
• 7 years of experience in project control, scheduling, readiness, interface management, project engineering, or coordination roles involving multiple stakeholders and technical disciplines
• Strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills
• Excellent problem‑solving abilities and a proactive mindset for identifying and resolving interface issues early.
• Strong organizational and reporting skills, including experience maintaining registers, producing KPIs
• Fluent in English; French is considered an advantage.
• Experience working in regulated environments nuclear is a strong asset
• Lean experience or interest in continuous improvement is highly valued.