Superintendent Jobs

Responsibilities

• Liaises with client, other site contractors, union and labor relations, and site and office representatives.
• Maintains project administration correspondence and complies with documentation requirements.
• Effectively communicates with own forces and trades and ensures that performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met.
• Works with the project manager to ensure implementation of PCL’s safety program, including integrating PCL’s safety program into all site plans and procedures and adhering to all safety and record-keeping requirements.
• Visualizes an entire project, plans, and creates the complete project schedule, identifies the critical path, and anticipates constructability issues.
• Creates, maintains, and executes the project plan and schedule, and ensures compliance with budget and quality.
• Liaises between field engineers, estimators, and subcontractors to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications.
• Reviews and understands the contract and subcontracts and develops a plan that identifies and mitigates risks and maximizes opportunities to ensure all financial targets, including budgets, forecasts, and profitability levels are met.
• Consistently collaborates with construction/project manager and project team. Proactively manages potential problems, work interferences, and schedule conflicts/setbacks.
• Develops and implements the Project Execution Plan (PEP) and resource-loaded three-week lookahead schedules.
• Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team, including direct and indirect reports.
• Develops and maintains strong customer focused relationships with all stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Ability to lead and run effective site meetings with the client, consultants, trades, own forces work, and internal employees; ability to present at client meetings or for project pursuit work.
• NCSO designation required (IND); enrollment in the Gold Seal program (CDN)preferred. 5 years of progressive experience in field supervision preferred.
• Understanding of project scope and ability to apply basic engineering principles and embed solutions in construction plans and schedules.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and internal operational systems.
• Thorough understanding of contract language with the ability to identify and mitigate risks and identify and leverage opportunities.
• Proficient understanding of and ability to apply logic to the schedule to build a plan using scheduling software.
• In-depth knowledge of and application of safety and environmental principles/procedures/legislation.
• Ability to coordinate multiple scopes of a construction project, including scheduling, monitoring, and coordinating own forces work (OFW) and trade contractors with three-week lookahead schedules.
• Successfully supervised a construction workforce.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
• Journeyman certificate or undergraduate/engineering degree in a related discipline.
• Demonstrated conflict-resolution skills, problem-solving abilities, and professional judgment.
• Ability to complete material, labor, and equipment takeoffs.
• In-depth knowledge of and experience in construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, and methods and procedures.
• Thorough understanding of productivity rates or own forces work (OFW), Labor Cost Reports (LCRs), and ability to interpret cost reports.