Superintendent - Powerline Construction
On-siteEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Job Summary
Lead day-to-day field operations for powerline construction projects in Alberta, ensuring completion safely, on time, and within budget. Apply Project Specific Safety Program (PSSP) requirements to promote compliance with health, safety, environmental standards, and applicable regulations across all employees and subcontractors. Manage material quantities, equipment availability, and trade resources while supervising subcontractors to achieve project deliverables. Provide leadership and guidance to the direct workforce and field team, resolving conflict and facilitating mentoring. Interpret construction documents, contracts, and costs to anticipate constructability issues and create solutions within the project schedule. Travel to site on a rotational basis, working outdoors in various weather conditions.
Required Qualifications
- Journeyman Power Line Technician certification
- 10+ years of transmission power line construction experience
- 5+ years of experience working on industrial facilities projects
- Working knowledge of health, safety and environmental protection practices and procedures as they apply to common construction processes
- Solid understanding of current distribution power line construction practices
- Facilitation and mentoring skills; is able to move the team forward and resolve conflict situations as they arise
- A track record of building successful teams and promoting teamwork through motivating, coaching, and consensus-building
- Knowledge of various pieces of construction equipment and their operating capabilities (i.e. bucket trucks, digger derricks, stringing equipment, vac trucks, etc.)
- Proven ability to guide safe work practices in a high-pressure environment while maintaining project quality, schedule, and budget
- Strong knowledge of construction documents (including utility plans and maps), contracts, costs, and budgets
- Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate with multiple project stakeholders, interpreting their needs and identifying solutions
- Capable of anticipating constructability issues in complex situations and creating solutions in the construction plan and schedule
- Strong organizational and planning skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of programs; intermediate to advanced user of Microsoft Excel and Outlook
- Clean drivers abstract
- Successful completion of pre-employment drug & alcohol requirements
- Travel to site on a rotational basis
- Alberta-based is preferred but will consider qualified candidates from out of province willing to work on a rotational basis
Desired Qualifications
- Distribution experience is also an asset
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