Contractor Management Coordinator

Location: Redwater, AB

Schedule: 4 days per week on-site, with flexibility to support increased hours during turnarounds, outages, shutdowns, and other peak operational periods.

Contract Length: 1 year

Position Summary

Reporting to the Contractor Management Supervisor, the Contractor Management Coordinator is accountable for strengthening contractor relationships, improving communication, and enhancing field-level contract execution to ensure the safe, productive, and cost-effective utilization of contractor resources across Redwater Operations (RNO).

This position is responsible for supporting the contractor requisition process, verifying contractor worker certifications and ISNetworld compliance, coordinating contractor mobilization to site, and supporting competency assessment verification. The role serves as a key liaison between personnel, contractors, and site security to ensure contractor resources are appropriately qualified, compliant, and available to meet operational demands.

The successful candidate will operate with a high degree of independence and work collaboratively with Maintenance, Projects, Turnarounds, Outages, Operations, and contractor organizations to support safe and reliable work execution.

Key Responsibilities

- Coordinate and administer the contractor requisition process to support workforce requirements across site operations.
- Verify contractor certifications, training records, qualifications, and ISNetworld compliance before site mobilization.
- Coordinate contractor onboarding and site access requirements in partnership with site security and contractor representatives.




- Conduct field tours and support contractor competency assessment verification activities.
- Work closely with trade coordinators, job owners, supervisors, and contractor representatives to ensure resource requirements are understood and fulfilled.
- Support maintenance, project, turnaround, and outage teams with contractor workforce planning and mobilization efforts.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with contractors to promote effective communication and successful execution of work.
- Monitor contractor resource levels and proactively identify future workforce requirements.
- Maintain accurate records and documentation related to contractor compliance, qualifications, and resource deployment.
- Support safe, reliability, and efficient execution of site work by ensuring contractor personnel meet all required compliance standards.

Required Qualifications

- Minimum 5 years of trade supervisory experience within a large industrial environment.
- Experience working independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple priorities.
- Previous experience conducting field tours, inspections, workforce assessments, and contractor evaluations.
- Strong understanding of contractor management, workforce coordination, and compliance verification processes.




- Experience working on large Alberta industrial sites such as chemical plants, petrochemical facilities, fertilizer operations, oil sands sites, refineries, mining facilities, or heavy industrial plants.
- Strong knowledge of industrial safety requirements and contractor compliance expectations.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to build relationships with contractors, operations personnel, maintenance teams, and site leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with ISNetworld (ISN) contractor compliance systems.
- Experience supporting maintenance outages, turnarounds, shutdowns, and major capital projects.
- Knowledge of skilled trades qualifications, certifications, and contractor workforce requirements.
- Familiarity with contractor onboarding and site access processes.

Key Competencies

- Contractor Management
- Workforce Planning & Coordination
- Field Leadership
- Compliance Verification
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Communication & Collaboration
- Problem Solving
- Safety Leadership
- Resource Planning
- Attention to Detail

Ideal Candidate We are seeking candidates with proven experience supporting contractor workforces on large industrial sites in Alberta. The ideal individual will have a trades supervision background, be comfortable working independently in both office and field environments and possess the ability to perform field assessments while coordinating contractor resources across multiple stakeholder groups. Experience supporting maintenance, outage, turnaround, or project environments will be highly valued.

📌 Contractor Management Coordinator (Redwater)
🏢 NES Fircroft
📍 Redwater