AddressAt PCL, we build the places where life happens and find camaraderie in the process. We're a community of builders committed to building better communities. That's why we're always looking ahead, and not just to the next project or what's next in our industry.
We're also looking at what's next for you and how we can help you build a career you're proud of. When you join PCL, you become an important part of the team behind some of the most prominent structures and infrastructure that shape our communities.
Here's how a Superintendent for our Ottawa office contributes to our team:
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team, including direct and indirect reports.
- Effectively communicates with own forces and trades and ensures that performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met.
- Consistently collaborates with construction/project manager and project team. Proactively manages potential problems, work interferences, and schedule conflicts/setbacks.
- Liaises between field engineers, estimators, and subcontractors to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications.
- Liaises with client, other site contractors, union and labor relations, and site and office representatives.
- Visualizes an entire project, plans, and creates the complete project schedule, identifies the critical path, and anticipates constructability issues.
- Develops and implements the Project Execution Plan (PEP) and resource-loaded three-week lookahead schedules.
- Creates, maintains, and executes the project plan and schedule, and ensures compliance with budget and quality.
- 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.
- Maintains project administration correspondence and complies with documentation requirements.
- Develops and maintains strong customer focused relationships with all stakeholders.
- Journeyman certificate or undergraduate degree in engineering or a related discipline.
- 5 years of progressive experience in field supervision preferred.
- Successfully supervised a construction workforce.
- In-depth knowledge of and experience in construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, methods and procedures, safety and environmental principles/procedures/legislation.
- Understanding of project scope and ability to apply basic engineering principles and embed solutions in construction plans and schedules.
- Proficient understanding of and ability to apply logic to the schedule to build a plan using scheduling software.
- 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.
- Thorough understanding of productivity rates, Labor Cost Reports (LCRs), and ability to interpret cost reports.
- Demonstrated conflict-resolution skills, problem-solving abilities, and professional judgment.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and internal operational systems.
The PCL Companies celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating equitable opportunities and an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We make employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or veteran status.
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Together, we can build success and a better future. Let’s get started!
Target Start Date: 12/12/2022
Employee Status: Regular Full-Time
Company: PCL Constructors Canada Inc.
Primary Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Job: Superintendent
Requisition: 1022
