Construction Manager Canoga Park, CA

Construction Manager job at Alliance for Community Empowerment. Canoga Park, CA.

As the Construction Manager at Alliance for Community Empowerment (ACE), you’ll lead comprehensive training programs that teach essential commercial and residential construction skills, ensuring safety and technical proficiency. You’ll provide both classroom instruction and hands-on experience, guiding trainees toward valuable certifications. Additionally, you’ll oversee ACE’s construction programming and a dedicated team, helping to shape the future of aspiring construction professionals.

RUTH Youth Build is a transformative program for ages 16-24, offering a WASC-accredited diploma, paid vocational training, and post-secondary readiness. Grounded in the values of Resilience, Unity, Transformation, and Hope
, it empowers participants with a social justice-focused curriculum, life skills electives, and holistic support to drive positive change in their lives and communities.

• Demonstrates sensitivity to the community, culture, and personal dignity of program participants, effectively engaging, assessing, and planning services for the target population.
• Maintains appropriate boundaries with participants and their families, adhering to professional standards and practices.
• Understands standard procedures for accurate record-keeping, including timely charting, proper notation formats, and confidentiality practices.
• Knowledgeable about programs, regulations, and procedures related to human services, social services, justice, and workforce development.
• Collaborates with the leadership team to establish a unified vision and set goals for the program, leading regular, well-structured team meetings that address program needs.
• Trains and supervises program staff, interns, and partners to ensure high-quality services are delivered efficiently to participants and provides ongoing guidance and support.
• Prepares and conducts performance evaluations, develops individualized training and supervision plans for staff and volunteers, and completes all required training.
• Organizes and participates in family and service meetings, and team meetings, and coordinates wrap-around services with other providers, ensuring participants receive comprehensive support, including transportation when necessary to achieve program goals.
• Oversees, schedules, and monitors the quality and progress of all construction-related curriculum and activities, ensuring adherence to safety protocols and teaching safety procedures consistently.
• Utilizes the Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3) to prepare participants for certification and entry into Building Trades' registered apprenticeship programs, implementing strategies to meet pre-apprenticeship program objectives.
• Prepares participants for OSHA-10 certification in workplace safety and ensures successful transportation to job sites with appropriate supervision.
• Tracks participant progress, training hours, and certifications, and submits grades on time while maintaining accurate data in participant databases and assisting with periodic program reporting.
• Participates in recruitment, selection, and onboarding of program staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Has knowledge and experience of the position’s duties and department’s roles; meets expectations for schedule, attendance, time management, productivity, and work quality.
• Operates as a reliable, flexible team player with minimal supervision; demonstrates initiative, creativity, accountability, and adaptability; is open to learning and feedback.
• Proficient in necessary technical and software skills (Google Suite/Microsoft Office).
• Exhibits strong interpersonal skills, fostering a safe, inclusive work environment; communicates effectively both orally and in writing.
• Demonstrates cultural competence and humility in community relations and service delivery.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to the community, culture, and personal dignity of program participants, effectively engaging, assessing, and planning services for the target population.
• Maintains appropriate boundaries with participants and their families, adhering to professional…