site superintendent

lead installer

journeyperson plumber

carpenter foreman

remodeler

DAVACO

Total Responsibility to complete a new store set-up, re-model, or relocation through teamwork with local store staff, company staff, transportation company, local authorities, and my team.  There was a starting point or blank slate that progressed daily to completion.  Store ready to do business.

Learned a lot.  Especially that the "Buck" stops with you and your team.  Make things happen through proper communication, training, and teamwork.  Managed by taking the best of everyone and blending our skills to produce exceptional results.

Serious, but relaxed work culture, focused without being obsessed.

The hardest part came when you failed at communication.

Every two weeks you got immediate feedback.  You could look at your work and see that the finished product met your expectations and that of your team.

I would still be working for Davaco if they had consistent projects, but they often go 3 months to a year without jobs. 
Working for Davaco entails working on the road, travelling a lot and only being home for 4 days a month a lot of the time. I would only recommend this job to someone who is looking for away from home work, that compensates well. If you have a family with kids this job may be difficult.
Also the work is often during night time, and extremely stressful as jobs have extremely strict deadlines and often pose many challenges. If you are fast and effective at solving problems, motivating people and doing clean, efficient work then you will thrive in this job.

Mostly construction and carpentry projects Canada wide.

The lessons learned are Construction operations, Safety, requirements, laws, carpentry and masonry applications.

Passive Management

In the past were involved electrical and electronic based projects were my competency was highly required but now not anymore.

The team/teams is competent and great as long as they are committed to work as a team.

The hardest part of the job is dealing with traveling, long hours and various risks along the way.

The most enjoyable part of job is the completion of all projects after all the hard work and sacrifice.

Management makes a lot of promises when hiring, but fails miserably right after. When your around the “higher” supervisory positions, you will find out they talk about everyone behind their backs and don’t have the proper experience to talk to individuals and keep opinions to themselves. As far as work goes, the work is ok and guys are good. However the work is go hard when it’s there but if it slows down you sit and they won’t communicate when they have work. You have to always be on top of them to keep getting the work.
Management makes more mistakes then the guys learning the jobs. People hired are there because they need bodies

Guys come to work drunk, smoke weed and drink on break. Field Managers are at the hotel sleep so no support, always an issue with your check, the staff at the office very unprofessional, sleeping in crackhead hotel, employes take your tools when they steal the vehicle to go on a crystal meth run and don't come back. I really feel for the few good ppl that work there, the rest, MONKEY'S in a CIRCUS

Load truck for delivery.I learned alot of new city streets,acoss Ontario.Management was great ,always helpful,always looked for your input about your job to make it easier. Co-workers also great and willing to go the extra distance to help. Some people would say the length of time on the road is the hardest,but I quite enjoyed it. The best part was staying overnite in a city you have yet to discover.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Travel was nice but gets old and they push your times back without notification 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everything but mostly upper management 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very cutthroat and toxic a few good ones 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Wake up really early for work and work really late

davaco was a great job, paid really well to travel all over canada doing different types of renovations. management wasn't the best but not bad enough to hate the job. work is not always steady though, could be woking steady for a year then  laid off for half a year. if the work was steady i would work there for the rest of my life.

Fast paced work with tight deadlines servicing the food and beverage industry at that time I was there. Some work was simply trade oversight. Other trades hired did poor quality work, management at the company was disorganized and treated employees poorly. Pay was great but the headaches suffered from management were not worth it. Good gig I suppose if you are single as I was then.

Not to happy long hours with little travel pay . No job security and lots of changes to management. And dealing with out of country staff as well makes for confusion on jobs and little help for time and travel expenses .little learning . All night work .co workers change and lots of negative people. That quit

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Site superintendent 4 salaries reported	$31.00 per hour
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Carpenter foreman 2 salaries reported	$28.25 per hour
Remodeler 1 salary reported	$26.50 per hour

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