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Scope of Position
The General Foreman / CSO is an integral role within the site team who is involved in the safety management and day-to-day operations of the construction site. This position acts as a link between site management and the workforce, ensuring decisions and directives from management are effectively communicated and implemented. This role is pivotal in maintaining a safe, compliant, and productive construction site with a focus on meeting project milestones.
As the Safety Lead, this role extends its influence across a broader group, encompassing own forces, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers, visitors, and third-party inspectors. The Safety Lead is responsible for identifying potential hazards and communicating these to site management, assisting in the strategic planning and mitigation of safety and operational risks. This role is responsible for implementing safety decisions made by the site management, ensuring adherence to the safety standards and practices in all aspects of construction.
As a General Foreman, this role excels in prioritizing tasks and facilitating effective execution of work by guiding the General Contractor’s workforce to align with management’s schedule and plans, thereby ensuring orderly and efficient operations on site.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Safety Supervision:
- Assist with setting up the construction site in compliance with safety requirements, ensuring a safe and secure working environment from the outset.
- Conduct regular safety inspections to ensure compliance with safety standards and practices.
- Proactively identify potential hazards across the construction site, involving own forces, subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers.
- Assist in planning and executing strategies for risk and hazard mitigation.
- Participate in conducting safety orientations for new workers as required, ensuring awareness of and familiarity with site-specific safety procedures and standards.
- Implement and enforce safety protocols as directed by site management.
- Communicate safety concerns and collaborate with site management for risk mitigation strategies.
- Lead investigations into safety incidents or concerns, ensuring thorough examination and resolution.
- Manage document control for safety, ensuring accurate and timely documentation of safety-related activities and incidents.
2. Operational Supervision:
- Maintain constant communication with site management to fully understand operational needs and objectives, ensuring alignment in expectations and responsibilities of this role.
- Assist with monitoring subcontractor work progress, reporting any potential obstacles, challenges, slowdowns, or stoppages, such as insufficient labor force on site.
- Manage the General Contractor’s workforce by delegating task effectively and ensuring efficiency and alignment with project objectives and management directives.
- Conduct and document -in line with proper record-keeping practices- weekly toolbox talks and daily safety and task-planning huddles, ensuring team awareness, and understanding.
- Inspect tools, equipment, machinery, and personal protective equipment (PPE) used on site daily, documenting these inspections. Report any defects to site management and arrange for prompt repairs or replacements to minimize downtime and keep the project on track.
- Support the identification of hazards and the implementation of control measures for the crew under your supervision, ensuring a consistently safe work environment.
- Monitor and maintain, or arrange for maintenance where necessary, site systems and services on a daily basis, including temporary power, lighting, water, heat and ventilation, sanitary facilities, water treatment plant, sump pumps.
- Prioritize and implement provisions for site safety and access requirements such as snow removal, potable water (especially during hot weather), safety signage, and the upkeep of site access paths, walkways, ramps, barriers, handrails, and guardrails, including public pathways and walks at the site’s perimeter.
- Oversee environmental compliance, including monitoring site activities, maintaining environmental safeguards, and reporting any issues to site management. This encompasses tree, stream, and wildlife protection monitoring and maintenance, as well as pest control measure as required.
- Manage Erosion and Sediment Control (ESC) measures, ensuring adherence to environmental protection standards and regulations.
- Ensure the quality of work, undertaken directly or by the GC’s workforce on site, is consistent with project specifications and meets site management’s expectations.
- Maintain rigorous housekeeping standards throughout the construction site to ensure a clean and orderly work environment.
- Facilitate effective management of site security by overseeing timely and secure opening and closing procedures. Regularly maintain fences and monitor the functionality of security cameras for uninterrupted surveillance.
- Coordinate inventory management by identifying needs and obtaining authorization prior to ordering. Handle deliveries and ensure efficient processing, storage, protection, and utilization of materials and supplies.
Critical Expectations
Safety:
1. Incident Reduction Efforts:
Proactive measures to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents.
Year-over-year reduction in incident rates.
Compare incident reports and severity ratings against previous years' data.
2. Compliance with Safety Protocols:
Adherence to established safety standards and protocols.
Achieving a high compliance rate in internal and external safety audits, and WorkSafeBC inspections.
Track outcomes of regular safety audits and compliance checks.
3. Effective Response to Incidents:
Timely and comprehensive response to incidents.
Swift investigation of incidents followed up by recommendation and implementation of corrective and preventative measures.
Monitor turn-around times for incident investigations, successful identification of root-causes, and effective implementation of corrective and preventative action.
Operational Supervision:
1. Task Completion Efficiency:
Efficient and timely completion of assigned tasks and contributions to project milestones.
Consistent completion of assigned tasks within set deadlines.
Track the completion dates of tasks assigned and compare against deadlines. Monitor the role's direct contributions to overall project milestones.
2. Quality of Workmanship:
Standard of work conducted by the role and their crew.
Minimal rework or corrections required.
Assess the frequency of rework or quality issues noted during and post-completion of tasks.
3. Inventory and Resource Management:
Effective management of materials and resources.
Optimal utilization of inventory with minimal emergency orders or wastage.
Review inventory records for accuracy, track emergency orders, and evaluate material usage efficiency.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00-$80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Flexible language requirement:
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Ability to commute/relocate:
- North Vancouver, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
