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ATCO Frontec's business is organized into three operating units: Major Projects, Operations, and ATCO Frontec International. This position is part of Major Projects, which pursues and delivers large-scale construction, infrastructure, and capital projects from development through commissioning.

Position Overview The North of 60 Projects Team, part of ATCO Frontec's Major Projects Business Unit, is seeking a versatile, hands-on Site Operations Manager to lead field execution on complex projects in remote and challenging environments. The successful candidate will combine broad technical knowledge, practical problem-solving, strong leadership, and disciplined planning and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Field Leadership & Execution

- Lead day-to-day site execution with limited oversight and maintain a secure, accountable, and productive site culture.
- Direct employees, trades, subcontractors, vendors, and equipment operators; set priorities and coordinate daily and weekly work fronts.
- Monitor progress, workmanship, manpower, equipment, constraints, and schedule performance; address or escalate issues early.
- Make sound field decisions under pressure while protecting safety, quality, cost, schedule, and client commitments.

Multi-Discipline Coordination

- Coordinate electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, and general construction activities.
- Read and interpret drawings, specifications, single-line diagrams, schematics, P&IDs;, control narratives, schedules, manuals, and vendor documents.
- Identify constructability issues, design conflicts, interface gaps, and missing information; work with engineering, project management, vendors, and trades on practical solutions.
- Provide hands-on technical support and troubleshooting within applicable trade and regulatory limits.

Planning, Logistics & Project Support

- Support execution planning during office or home-based periods, including sequencing, look-aheads, constructability reviews, material readiness, workforce planning, and mobilization.
- Coordinate with project management, engineering, procurement, logistics, clients, subcontractors, suppliers, and local stakeholders.
- Confirm that tools, materials, equipment, permits, information,



and qualified resources are available before work begins.
- Manage changing priorities, weather, transportation constraints, and limited resources common to remote project delivery.

Safety, Quality & Closeout

- Lead work in accordance with company, client, regulatory, and project-specific safety and quality requirements.
- Support safety meetings, hazard assessments, inspections, permits, testing, commissioning, deficiencies, non-conformances, and turnover.
- Stop or correct unsafe, non-compliant, or poor-quality work and ensure follow-up is completed.

Reporting & Documentation

- Prepare concise daily reports covering completed work, manpower, equipment, progress, safety, quality, weather, delays, constraints, and upcoming activities.
- Maintain photographs, timesheets, delivery and inspection records, redlines, deficiencies, field instructions, and material tracking.
- Use Microsoft 365, project management systems, and digital field tools; document field conditions and impacts supporting change management.

Qualifications

Required

- Progressive experience leading field execution on construction, industrial, infrastructure, technology, facilities, or equipment installation projects.
- Broad practical knowledge across electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, and general construction.
- Experience supervising employees, trades, subcontractors, and vendors in active project environments.
- Ability to interpret varied design drawings, specifications, schedules, and technical documents.
- Proven ability to plan work, coordinate interfaces, solve field problems, and make decisions with limited direction.
- Strong computer skills, including email, Word, Excel, Teams, document management, and digital reporting tools.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including professional site reporting and stakeholder updates.




- Ability to work from an office or home-based setting between assignments and travel for prolonged periods to Northern sites, other project locations, supplier facilities, and partner locations.
- Valid driver's licence and ability to meet site access requirements.
- Able to obtain Federal Government Security Clearance.

Preferred Assets

- Journeyperson certification, construction management credential, engineering technology diploma, or equivalent technical training and field experience.
- Remote Northern, Arctic, fly-in/fly-out, camp-based, or other travel-intensive project experience.
- Experience with power generation, water or wastewater treatment, building systems, controls, communications, fuel systems, utilities, or industrial equipment.
- Experience with remote logistics, testing, commissioning, start-up, deficiency resolution, and turnover.
- Experience operating or directing common site equipment such as skid steers, telehandlers, and aerial work platforms.

Leadership Profile

- Hands-on and adaptable, with the willingness to work outside a narrow .
- Calm and decisive under pressure, with strong ownership and follow-through.
- Practical problem-solver who communicates issues early and balances technical requirements with workable field solutions.
- Respectful leader who earns trust, coaches others, and maintains standards without unnecessary conflict.

Safety Certifications (Preferred) CSTS 2020 or equivalent; WHMIS; Standard First Aid with CPR; Fall Protection; Elevated Work Platform / MEWP; Ground Disturbance; Confined Space; Lockout/Tagout; and other client or site-specific training as required.

Work Environment

- Combination of office or home-based project planning and field assignments.
- Frequent travel, including prolonged stints at Northern sites, other project locations, supplier facilities, and partner locations.
- Site assignments may involve camp accommodation, isolated locations, variable weather, physically demanding conditions, and extended workdays during critical periods.

Additional Information We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Personal information will be collected and used in accordance with ATCO Group privacy policies.

📌 Site Operations Manager (Calgary)
🏢 ATCO Group
📍 Calgary