Construction Manager

• Provide constructability, cost and schedule input during design reviews.

Location: Toronto, Canada
Compensation: Competitive base salary + package + stock options
Environment: Greenfield Infrastructure | Rocket Propulsion | High-Pressure Systems
Build the infrastructure that gets rocket engines firing.
Most Construction Manager roles start with a building.
This one starts with a rocket.
A heavily backed Canadian space company is developing the country's first medium-lift launch vehicle and before that vehicle can ever reach orbit, the infrastructure needed to develop, test and qualify its propulsion systems has to be built.
That means test facilities. High-pressure systems. Cryogenic infrastructure. Process piping. Utilities. Roads. Heavy civil works. Buildings. And ultimately, the facilities where a 725 kN rocket engine will be put through its paces.
We are looking for the Construction Manager who will turn those plans into reality.
This isn't a role where you'll inherit a finished facility and manage contractors carrying out minor upgrades.
You will help build it from the ground up.

The company has assembled engineers and leaders from some of the world's most successful launch, aerospace and technology organisations, bringing experience from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Ariane Group, Pangea Propulsion, Tesla, MDA and others.
The engineering philosophy is deliberately pragmatic: use proven technology, move quickly, test early and often, and discover problems on the test stand rather than on the launch pad.
That philosophy extends to the infrastructure programme.
Engineering will define what needs to be built.
Your job is to make sure it actually gets built — safely, correctly and on schedule.
You’ll take engineered designs and turn them into operational facilities, owning construction execution from site mobilisation through to inspection, commissioning and final handover.
On a programme like this, construction isn't supporting the company schedule.
Construction is the company schedule.

You’ll be the person responsible for execution in the field.
You’ll select, onboard and manage general contractors and specialist trades across civil, structural, mechanical and electrical work streams.
You’ll own sequencing and daily site coordination, run contractor meetings, monitor progress and make sure commitments actually turn into completed work.
You’ll have the authority to challenge contractors on schedule, cost, quality and safety — and the judgement to know the difference between a genuine constructability problem and an unnecessary change order.

• Own construction execution from mobilisation through closeout.
• Establish and enforce the site safety programme.
• Manage general contractors and specialist trade contractors.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent civil, structural, mechanical and electrical work streams.
• Provide constructability, cost and schedule input during design reviews.
• Raise RFIs and field changes before problems become expensive.
• Coordinate inspections and interactions with authorities having jurisdiction.
• Maintain the QA/QC and inspection records required for system acceptance.
• Verify contractor progress and support payment certification.
• Track construction cost and schedule against the programme baseline.
• Drive punch lists and deficiency closeout.
• Manage the handover of as-builts, O&M manuals, warranties and training.
• Take completed infrastructure through commissioning and into Facilities.

You don't need to have built a rocket test stand before.
But you do need to be comfortable around serious industrial infrastructure.
The programme will involve environments where pressure systems, process piping, hazardous fluids and…