Construction Director

Position Title:

Construction Director

Location:

Toronto, ON, CA;
Montreal, Quebec, CA;
Toronto, ON, CA

Aecon is seeking a Construction Director to join the Urban Transportation Solutions group to support dynamic transit projects in Canada.

Reporting to the Project Director, the Construction Director will lead all construction activities, ensuring the project is delivered as a finished constructed product turned over to the client safely, predictably, and to the required quality standards.

• Lead all construction activities within a collaborative delivery model (Alliance / Progressive Design-Build), ensuring “best-for-project” outcomes across safety, cost, schedule, and quality.
• Develop, implement, and govern the Construction Management Plan (CMP) integrated with overall project strategy, target value delivery, and open-book performance frameworks.
• Own construction readiness, mobilization, and field organization across early works and main works, ensuring clear structure across geographic zones, disciplines, and trade supervision.
• Provide constructability leadership during design development, ensuring sequencing, logistics, access, and means & methods are fully embedded before IFC release.
• Build and actively manage the construction risk profile, identifying and mitigating risks related to methods, interfaces, utilities, third parties, and urban constraints.
• Lead subcontractor and trade partner execution, including coordination, performance management, lookahead planning, constraint removal, and production tracking aligned to project controls.
• Define and manage interfaces between civil/structural works and systems installation, ensuring coordinated handoffs, access windows, and area turnover to support integration.
• Drive Lean construction practices (e.g., Last Planner System, pull planning) to improve workflow reliability, productivity, and field execution certainty.
• Partner with commercial and project controls teams to align field execution with cost forecasts, target price, and gainshare/painshare outcomes.
• Lead staging, sequencing, and logistics planning for complex urban environments, including traffic, transit, rail corridor access, utilities, and stakeholder constraints.
• Coordinate closely with Systems and Testing & Commissioning teams to enable phased completion, integrated testing, and operational readiness.
• Maintain transparent communication with clients and partners, supporting governance forums, issue resolution, and a “no surprises” delivery approach.

• 15+ years of construction leadership experience on major infrastructure projects, including 5+ years in a senior role (Construction Director or equivalent) on projects exceeding $500M.
• Proven delivery of complex urban transit, rail, or heavy civil projects across full lifecycle (early works to commissioning and handover).
• Experience working in collaborative delivery models (Alliance, Progressive DB, CMGC, P3/DB), including familiarity with integrated teams, shared risk/reward, and joint governance structures.
• Deep expertise in construction means & methods including underground works (cut & cover, SEM, TBM), stations, guideway, utilities, and multi-discipline infrastructure.
• Strong ability to integrate construction with design development through constructability reviews, sequencing input, and design‑for‑delivery alignment.
• Demonstrated experience managing large field organizations (multi‑area, 300+ personnel) and coordinating subcontractors and trade packages.
• Strong understanding of construction cost drivers, production‑based forecasting, and the commercial impact of sequencing and productivity decisions.
• Experience managing complex third‑party interfaces including utilities, municipalities, transit authorities, rail operators, and community stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of Lean construction systems (pull planning, constraint management, workflow optimization) applied at scale.
• Strong understanding of testing & commissioning sequencing and how construction completion and handover supports integrated system delivery.
• Post‑secondary education in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline; P.Eng., PMP,…