Construction Superintendent

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

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Managing the day-to-day field
activities to ensure that the project milestone dates and overall schedule
completion date is met

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Creating short-interval
look-ahead project schedules that make sure that upcoming events are
communicated, tracked and are being proactively attended to

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Creating and maintaining a
culture that values safety, health and cleanliness

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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

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Establishing and maintaining
all dimensional controls for the project to include the use of third party
survey and layout personnel when appropriate

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Verifying that all work is
installed in a workmanlike manner (i.e.: plumb, level, straight, etc...)

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Manage and look-ahead no less
than two weeks to proactively identifying issues that could lead to problems
and facilitate solutions

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Obtaining all inspections and
ensuring that the quality aspects of the physical work are fully documented

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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

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Administering client specific
programs, such as QAQC, Safety, Environmental Stewardship, etc.

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Conducting and/or attending
pre-construction, progress and other project and staff meetings

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Conducting and/or participating
in regularly held meetings involving internal staff and external stake holders
such as owners, subcontractors, etc.

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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

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Managing self-performed
activities to ensure that work is being performed within the established
project budget

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Managing changes in project
scope to ensure that the most contemporary contract documents are being used at
all times to prevent avoidable rework

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Administering contracts,
subcontracts, purchase orders and other agreement to ensure that the scope,
terms and conditions are consistently and proactively being met

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Managing the punch list and
project closeout process to assure timely completion

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Maintaining daily paperwork
such as timecards, field reports, schedule updates and E-mail correspondence

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Providing timely and cordial
interaction with supporting work groups, such as accounting, HR, SAFETY etc.

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Directing and managing the work
loads of supporting staff to include training, mentoring and follow up; and

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Participating in and
encouraging staff to seek out life-long learning opportunities and professional
development.

Construction Skills

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Has a passion for construction,
a desire and a natural instinct to build

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Understands means and methods
of construction associated with the renovation of commercial and institutional
buildings and sitework related thereto

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Can create a 3d visualization
of the end product and knows how to get there

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Understands the sequencing of
work and the strategy of creating effective project schedules

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Understands project control and
change order management

Critical Thinking Skills

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Has strong math and analytical
skills

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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

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Has a natural curiosity of
technical, physical and spatial matters

Action Oriented

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Is goal oriented and can react
quickly to challenging circumstances to achieve the desired end results

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Is proactive, plans well and
addresses problems promptly

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Is committed to doing quality
work the first time with little or no need for re-work

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Works to meet or beat schedules
and is driven to bring closure to avoid long punch lists

Results Oriented

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Works to meet deadlines and is
driven to closure

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Has a bias toward action and an
impatience towards those that lack focus and/or the ability to get results

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Is proactive, looks for
problems that could impede progress and relentlessly takes responsibility for
solving them

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Is deadline driven, punctual
and respects other peoples' time

Leadership and Interpersonal Skills

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Has the ability to build
effective teams, to inspire others to their best, and to coach and mentor

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Is aggressive, however fair and
reasonable in all business dealings involving clients, subcontractors and
co-workers (understands win-win contracting)

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Is an effective communicator,
active-listener, recognizes diverse perspectives and is capable of facilitating
synergy and collaboration

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Has the ability to confront
difficult situations and manages them to a successful conclusion

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Is polite, conversational,
self-confident, comfortable to be with and non-assuming

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Is organized and produces a
paper trail that can be easily understood by a third party and

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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
• Vision Care
• Life insurance
• Company Vehicle
• Company phone and Laptop

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