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ACCES Employment
ACCES Employment
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thomas Chong
Thomas Chong
Project Manager
3
Timeline
  • September 27, 2018
    Experience start
  • September 21, 2018
    Product Description and Communication Plan
  • October 6, 2018
    Midway Check In
  • October 18, 2018
    Status Report
  • October 30, 2018
    Presentation and feedback with Sponsor (or least with the Instructor)
  • November 3, 2018
    Experience end
Experience
1/5 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any
Agriculture, Manufacturing, Science, Telecommunications, Government, Technology, Environment, Banking & finance, Hospital, health, wellness & medical, Transport, trucking & railroad, It & computing, Airlines, aviation & aerospace, Business & management, Construction, engineering & trades, Mining, forestry & fishery
Categories
Skills
crictical thinking strategic planning technical presentations team leadership
Learner goals and capabilities

Experienced engineering project managers with international experience will work in teams of 4-5 on a project assignment, supported by a Ryerson University instructor and submit a project management plan. These program participants are from different engineering disciplines with expertise in different fields and all of them have at least 3 years of leading and directing projects in their home country before coming to Canada.

Learners
Any level
18 learners
Project
30 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 4
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Phase 1 – Accept Project Scope and Communication Plan: Team members (4-5 program participants) will meet with organization representative(s) to discuss the project goals and devise the project scope. The scope of the project should have enough complexity and variety to allow the group to demonstrate the application of all the ten Project Management Knowledge Areas. A product description of the planned results and communication plan will be submitted for approval.

Phase 2 – Status Reports: The Project Team will prepare a project charter and then will periodically provide project status updates and communicate with your organization as needed.

Phase 3 – Project Management Plan and Presentation: The Project Team will submit a final detailed report of 30 to 40 pages. The final Project Management Plan will reference the Project Charter and the Product Description, Scope Statement, WBS, project schedule and milestone chart, baseline for schedule and cost (S-curve), staffing, risk response plan, and other information that will be relevant to each specific project or industry. The Project Teams will also present this in the last day of class, and organization representatives are invited to attend.

Project timeline
  • September 27, 2018
    Experience start
  • September 21, 2018
    Product Description and Communication Plan
  • October 6, 2018
    Midway Check In
  • October 18, 2018
    Status Report
  • October 30, 2018
    Presentation and feedback with Sponsor (or least with the Instructor)
  • November 3, 2018
    Experience end
Project Examples

Starting this September, a cohort of experienced engineers will spend 120+ collective hours per team of 4-5 to assist your organization with a project of your choice.

Based on the project specifications that you present, the participants will conduct research and collaboratively create a project management plan and at the end of six weeks, submit a final plan of about 30-40 pages. The Project Management Plan will define how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled, and it may include the following:

  • Baselines for scope, schedule, and cost
  • Management plans for scope, schedule, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement
  • Requirement management plan
  • Change management plan
  • Configuration management plan
  • Process improvement plan

Example projects include, but are not limited to:

  1. Plan for a sustainable architecture and ecological design that protect and enhance the environment for Oshawa South.
  2. Plan to construct a pipeline from Toronto to Sarnia for transporting oil from Toronto Harbour.
  3. Plan for design and construction of a daycare centre in North York near the subway.
  4. Plan for retrofitting a water treatment plant that has been under-performing.
  5. Plan for providing renewable solar energy to a hamlet in Nunavut.

Project Participants

The participants working on your project are internationally-trained engineering project managers with experience in a wide variety of fields, engineering disciplines and geographical regions. All participants have at least 3 years of professional experience in project management roles. Around 50% have already completed a master’s degree or higher education.

By attending our Project management program, participants enhance their knowledge of the Canadian project management environment and work place culture. They also satisfy the PMP certificate requirement of 35 hours of Project Management education and plan to sit for their PMP exam in the next 6 months. Recent graduates have been hired by Crosslinx, EllisDon, Stantec, Infrastructure Ontario, Schneider Electric, Johnson Control, OLGC in positions such as Utilities Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Project Manager, Project Engineer and Contract Administrator.

The Program

ACCES Employment is a non-profit organization that through its Engineering Connections program helps internationally-trained engineering professionals with project management experience launch their careers in Canada. The Project Management component of the program is delivered in partnership with Ryerson University and consists of Fundamentals of Project Management and PMP exam preparation courses that satisfy the PMP certificate requirement of 35 hours of Project Management education. For more information, please check out: http://www.accesemployment.ca/engineering-connections

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Be willing to work with 4-5 student groups; you can communicate through team communication leads or the project coordinator.

Be available for a quick phone call with the organizer to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the experience.

Present your project to the program participants either in person or in a detailed written briefing.

Provide feedback on up to 5 deliverables.

Provide a Riipen skill rating on student performance upon completion of the project.

Minimum of 2-4 interactions with the Project Team (or through the team communication leads) in-person or remotely (approximately 2-6 hours over the duration of the project).