Superintendent, Construction

As a Superintendent for PCL Constructors Canada Inc. in Atlantic Canada, you'll support a major project from concept to completion, collaborating closely with partners to deliver safe, efficient, and community‑focused outcomes.

Why Choose PCL?

• Employee ownership opportunities that build long-term value
• Annual discretionary performance bonuses
• RRSP, TFSA, 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 account options
• Mental health and wellness support, including Employee Assistance Programs
• Career growth pathways, leadership development and mentorship programs
• Access to world‑class training through PCL's College of Construction and professional development courses
• Ongoing opportunities to learn new skills, explore different roles and grow your career across sectors and regions

Responsibilities

• Works with the project manager to ensure implementation of PCL’s safety program, including integrating PCL’s safety program into all site plans and procedures and adhering to all safety and record-keeping requirements.
• Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team, including direct and indirect reports.
• Effectively communicates with own forces and trades and ensures that performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met.
• Consistently collaborates with construction/project manager and project team. Proactively manages potential problems, work interferences, and schedule conflicts/setbacks.
• Liaises between field engineers, estimators, and subcontractors to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications.
• Liaises with client, other site contractors, union and labor relations, and site and office representatives.
• Visualizes an entire project, plans, and creates the complete project schedule, identifies the critical path, and anticipates constructability issues.
• Develops and implements the Project Execution Plan (PEP) and resource‑loaded three‑week lookahead schedules.
• Creates, maintains, and executes the project plan and schedule, and ensures compliance with budget and quality.
• Reviews and understands the contract and subcontracts and develops a plan that identifies and mitigates risks and maximizes opportunities to ensure all financial targets, including budgets, forecasts, and profitability levels are met.
• Maintains project administration correspondence and complies with documentation requirements.
• Develops and maintains strong customer focused relationships with all stakeholders.

• Journeyman certificate or undergraduate/engineering degree in a related discipline.
• Enrollment in the Gold Seal program preferred. 5 years of progressive experience in field supervision preferred.
• Successfully supervised a construction workforce.
• In‑depth knowledge of and experience in construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, and methods and procedures.
• Understanding of project scope and ability to apply basic engineering principles and embed solutions in construction plans and schedules.
• Proficient understanding of and ability to apply logic to the schedule to build a plan using scheduling software.
• Ability to coordinate multiple scopes of a construction project, including scheduling, monitoring, and coordinating own forces work (OFW) and trade contractors with three‑week lookahead schedules.
• Thorough understanding of productivity rates or own forces work (OFW), Labor Cost Reports (LCRs), and ability to interpret cost reports.
• Ability to complete material, labor, and equipment takeoffs.
• Thorough understanding of contract language with…