Superintendent – Construction

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Base Salary Range $110,00 to $150,000

Our Client is a leading construction organization committed to delivering high-quality projects while creating opportunities, careers, and stronger communities. You'll have the opportunity to support a major project from concept to completion, collaborating closely with project partners and stakeholders to deliver safe, efficient, and successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

- Work with the Project Manager to ensure implementation of the company's safety program, including integrating safety requirements into all site plans and procedures and adhering to all safety and record-keeping requirements.
- Supervise, direct, coach, train, and mentor the project team, including direct and indirect reports.
- Effectively communicate with internal teams and trades while ensuring performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met.
- Collaborate consistently with the Construction/Project Manager and project team to proactively manage potential problems, work interferences, and schedule conflicts or setbacks.
- Liaise between field engineers, estimators, and subcontractors to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications.
- Liaise with clients, other site contractors, union and labour relations representatives, and site and office personnel.
- Visualize the entire project, develop the overall project schedule, identify the critical path, and anticipate constructability issues.
- Develop and implement the Project Execution Plan (PEP) and resource-loaded three-week lookahead schedules.
- Create, maintain,



and execute the project plan and schedule while ensuring compliance with budget and quality requirements.
- Review and understand contracts and subcontracts and develop plans to identify and mitigate risks while maximizing opportunities to ensure financial targets, including budgets, forecasts, and profitability, are achieved.
- Maintain project administration correspondence and comply with documentation requirements.
- Develop and maintain robust, customer-focused relationships with all project stakeholders.

Qualifications

- Journeyman certificate or undergraduate/engineering degree in a related discipline.
- Enrollment in the Gold Seal program is preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in field supervision preferred.
- Proven experience successfully supervising a construction workforce.
- In-depth knowledge of the construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, methods, and procedures.
- Understanding of project scope and ability to apply basic engineering principles and develop solutions within construction plans and schedules.




- Proficient understanding of scheduling principles and the ability to apply logic to develop project plans using scheduling software.
- Ability to coordinate multiple scopes of a construction project, including scheduling, monitoring, and coordinating workforce and trade contractors using three-week lookahead schedules.
- Thorough understanding of productivity rates, labour cost reporting, and the ability to interpret cost reports.
- Ability to complete material, labour, and equipment takeoffs.
- Thorough understanding of contract language with the ability to identify and mitigate risks while identifying and leveraging opportunities.
- In-depth knowledge and application of safety and environmental principles, procedures, and legislation.
- Ability to lead and run effective site meetings with clients, consultants, trades, workforce, and internal employees.
- Ability to present at client meetings and support project pursuit activities.
- Demonstrated conflict-resolution skills, problem‑solving abilities, and professional judgment.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and construction/project management systems.

What’s on offer:

Base Salary Range $110,00 to $150,000

- Employee ownership opportunities that build long-term value
- Annual discretionary performance bonuses
- RRSP, TFSA, and pension contribution options
- Flexible medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Prescription drug coverage and virtual care services
- Life, AD&D;, and disability insurance
- Paid parental leave and family care support
- Health and lifestyle spending

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