Senior Superintendent

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, and maintains PCL safety program, including creating and influencing jobsite safety culture through mentorship and modeling.
• Consistently collaborates with construction/project manager and project team. Proactively identifies, manages, and resolves potential problems, work conflicts, or schedule challenges. Develops and implements recovery plan.
• Works with project team to anticipate and resolve project issues.
• Effectively communicates with own forces and trades and ensures performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met. Oversees subcontractor coordination and progress.
• Liaises with client, other site contractors, and office representatives.
• Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team and superintendents on the same site or multiple sites.
• Visualizes and conveys vision of an entire project, identifies, and drives the project schedule’s critical path, anticipates constructability issues, and troubleshoots, and embeds solutions in the construction plans and schedules.
• Works with the project management team to develop and implement the Project Execution Plan (PEP).
• Ensures compliance with district policies, safety procedures, equipment, and quality control.
• Ensures prompt scheduling, coordination and effective cost control pertaining to project labor, equipment, and materials.
• Influences equipment selection and construction methodology for formwork systems, cranes, etc.
• Reviews and understands the contract and subcontracts and develops a plan that identifies and mitigates risks (e.g., scope gaps) and maximizes opportunities to ensure that all financial targets, including budgets, forecasts, and profitability levels are achieved.
• Sets up subcontract review for area superintendents.
• Stays current with industry practices and seeks new and innovative construction methods and initiatives.

Qualifications

• Journeyman certificate or postsecondary diploma / engineering degree in a related discipline.
• NCSO designation (IND) and Gold Seal certification required (CDN), certificate in negotiation or equivalent experience.
• 15 years of progressive experience in field supervision preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of and experience in the construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, and methods and procedures.
• Understanding of project scope and able to apply complex engineering principles to construction challenges and embed solutions in construction plans and schedules.
• Experience with scheduling, monitoring, and mentoring others on forecasting resources.
• Ability to lead and manage others, including coordinating multiple scopes.
• Thorough understanding of contract language and ability to identify and mitigate risks and identify and leverage opportunities.
• Understanding of collective agreements and jurisdiction assignment for multi-trade sites (IND).
• In-depth knowledge of and application of safety and environmental principles/ procedures/legislation and demonstrated experience in implementing a strong safety culture.
• Ability to lead effective site meetings with the client, consultants, trades, own forces work (OFW), and internal employees; ability to present at client meetings or for project pursuit work.
• Experience mitigating grievance and employee relations issues.
• Demonstrated conflict-resolution skills, problem-solving abilities, and professional judgment.
• Expert understanding of productivity rates or own forces work (OFW), Labor Cost Reports (LCRs), and ability to interpret cost reports.