Project Management - Environmental

This Seneca program has been validated by the Credential Validation Service as an Ontario College Credential as required by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.

As a graduate, you will be prepared to reliably demonstrate the ability to:

• Link projects with organization’s strategic plans, documenting the business needs and justifications for the project.
• Define and manage the overall scope of the project, documenting project goals, deliverables, constraints, performance criteria and resource requirements in consultation with project stakeholders.
• Develop a comprehensive project plan while applying principles of management for sustainability:
  • Prepare effective plans for the approval of specialized profession specific practitioners.

• Integrate project functions, making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives in order to meet or exceed project objectives.
• Implement planning and control procedures, resource management, and risk management plans specifically related to the fields of environmental science and engineering.
• Employ a range of methodologies, techniques, and tools available to project managers including the use of foundational engineering and scientific principles applicable to analysis and solutions approach:
  • Use mathematical and scientific analyses to identify and solve technical problems.
  • Apply decision tree principles of logic to determine conclusions.
  • Use principles of source-pathway-receptor model to identify potential areas of adverse impact, to define study sites and to select appropriate mitigative options.
  • Select appropriate scientific and technical reference material.
  • Relate physical and mathematical sciences to remediation and redevelopment work.

• Develop, implement, and analyze key financial information, translating financial information into project terms and establishing financial benchmarks.
• Identify, analyze, and refine project costs to produce a budget and control project costs.
• Determine quality requirements and implement quality assessment activities.
• Identify and allocate human resources required to manage project tasks, both within the core project team and the broader organization.
• Manage communications to ensure the timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage and disposition of project information to aid in the achievement of project activities:
  • Communicate information effectively and accurately by analysing, translating and producing relevant documents and reports, by written, oral and visual means.
  • Interpret reports of technical specialists and make informed recommendations based on these reports.
  • Communicate effectively with a range of audiences appropriate to their context and needs.

• Identify potential risk events, monitor and control risk events, and assess risk management outcomes:
  • Monitor adherence to occupational health and safety regulations.

• Identify procurement requirements, establish procurement processes, and implement and evaluate contracts.
• Monitor project progress, identify variances and take timely action to deal with problems and opportunities:
  • Monitor the quality and quantity of work.

• Anticipate and respond to challenges inherent in complex projects.
• Develop creative and flexible solutions that bring projects in on time and within budget.
• Practice of professional ethics and responsibilities:
  • Interact with team and stakeholders in a professional manner, respecting differences, to ensure a collaborative project management environment.
  • Perform job related tasks in a manner consistent with those of professional associations and other relevant bodies related to the environmental field.
  • Exhibit a strong sense of integrity and ethical awareness.
  • Be cognizant of the expectations and limitations of technology in problem solving and the limitations of specific professional practices.
  • Recognize personal limits and seek assistance in a timely manner to resolve problems beyond own knowledge and skill.
  • Apply knowledge of existing confidentiality, privacy and reporting regulations to daily work.
  • Advocate adherence to ethical principles and standards.
  • Keep abreast of relevant technological change.

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