Construction Superintendent
Torch Remote Camps provides turnkey camp, open camp, and modular construction services to various clients and locations throughout Western Canada.
The Construction Superintendent is responsible for overseeing all on-site construction activities to ensure projects are completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with contract documents, quality standards, and regulatory requirements. This role manages daily field operations, coordinates subcontractors and self-performed work, develops and maintains short-term project schedules, monitors project progress, and proactively identifies and resolves issues that could impact timelines or costs. The Superintendent ensures compliance with safety, quality assurance, environmental, and client-specific programs
Superintendent Responsibilities
- Managing the day-to-day field activities to ensure that the project milestone dates and overall schedule completion date is met
- Creating short-interval look-ahead project schedules that make sure that upcoming events are communicated, tracked and are being proactively attended to
- Creating and maintaining a culture that values safety, health and cleanliness
- Managing and coordinating the work to ensure that it is constructed in an orderly and deliberate manner that is consistent with the standard-of-care set froth in the contract documents that is viewed by industry as an effort that is consistent with best-practices standards
- Establishing and maintaining all dimensional controls for the project to include the use of third party survey and layout personnel when appropriate
- Verifying that all work is installed in a workmanlike manner (i.e.: plumb, level, straight, etc...)
- Manage and look-ahead no less than two weeks to proactively identifying issues that could lead to problems and facilitate solutions
- Obtaining all inspections and ensuring that the quality aspects of the physical work are fully documented
- Ensuring all aspects of the project are compliant with all contract terms and legal requirements that govern the project and the community in which the project(s) takes place
- Administering client specific programs, such as QAQC, Safety, Environmental Stewardship, etc.
- Conducting and/or attending pre-construction, progress and other project and staff meetings
- Conducting and/or participating in regularly held meetings involving internal staff and external stake holders such as owners, subcontractors, etc.
- Meeting with client representatives on a regular basis to discuss the status of projects, to proactively identify and resolve problems and to assure that the client is kept knowledgeable about the status of the work
- Managing self-performed activities to ensure that work is being performed within the established project budget
- Managing changes in project scope to ensure that the most contemporary contract documents are being used at all times to prevent avoidable rework
- Administering contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders and other agreement to ensure that the scope, terms and conditions are consistently and proactively being met
- Managing the punch list and project closeout process to assure timely completion
- Maintaining daily paperwork such as timecards, field reports, schedule updates and E-mail correspondence
- Providing timely and cordial interaction with supporting work groups, such as accounting, HR, SAFETY etc.
- Directing and managing the work loads of supporting staff to include training, mentoring and follow up; and
- Participating in and encouraging staff to seek out life-long learning opportunities and professional development.
Construction Skills
- Has a passion for construction, a desire and a natural instinct to build
- Understands means and methods of construction associated with the renovation of commercial and institutional buildings and sitework related thereto
- Can create a 3d visualization of the end product and knows how to get there
- Understands the sequencing of work and the strategy of creating effective project schedules
- Understands project control and change order management
Critical Thinking Skills
- Has strong math and analytical skills
- Has strong problem solving skills that involve a bias to work within established systems and the agility to work outside of the system when necessary to get timely results
- Has a natural curiosity of technical, physical and spatial matters
Action Oriented
- Is goal oriented and can react quickly to challenging circumstances to achieve the desired end results
- Is proactive, plans well and addresses problems promptly
- Is committed to doing quality work the first time with little or no need for re-work
- Works to meet or beat schedules and is driven to bring closure to avoid long punch lists
Results Oriented
- Works to meet deadlines and is driven to closure
- Has a bias toward action and an impatience towards those that lack focus and/or the ability to get results
- Is proactive, looks for problems that could impede progress and relentlessly takes responsibility for solving them
- Is deadline driven, punctual and respects other peoples' time
Leadership and Interpersonal Skills
- Has the ability to build effective teams, to inspire others to their best, and to coach and mentor
- Is aggressive, however fair and reasonable in all business dealings involving clients, subcontractors and co-workers (understands win-win contracting)
- Is an effective communicator, active-listener, recognizes diverse perspectives and is capable of facilitating synergy and collaboration
- Has the ability to confront difficult situations and manages them to a successful conclusion
- Is polite, conversational, self-confident, comfortable to be with and non-assuming
- Is organized and produces a paper trail that can be easily understood by a third party and
- Embraces life-long learning, strives to stay current with new industry trends and practices and willingly participates in industry events and networking functions
Job Type: Remote, Full-time
Benefits
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
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Vision Care
- Life insurance
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Company Vehicle
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Company phone and Laptop
