Location: Oakbank, MB, and surrounding areas, with travel to various sites across Manitoba.
Timeline: Full time, permanent
Site work schedule: Typically four ten-hour days
We’re looking for the kinds of trades, engineers, and technologists who are looking for us.
We value our team. Pier’s work culture runs on collaboration and innovation. Are you looking for an exceptional work environment?
We empower our team. Pier avoids silos and enables team members with unique engineering and construction opportunities. Are you looking to reach your full potential?
We invest in our team. Pier provides regular training and educational opportunities for all team members. Are you looking to advance your professional practice?
We support our team. Pier cares about your personal and professional wellbeing. Are you looking for work-life balance?
We are generous with our team. Pier offers industry-leading compensation and benefits packages. Are you looking for stability?
Are you looking to join the most innovative short-span bridge team in Canada? We are looking for you!
Job Description
As a Pier Solutions general foreman, your core goal is to uphold the highest level of professionalism on all sites, demonstrating leadership, collaboration, integrity, service, quality, and a hard work ethic in all your interactions with coworkers, subcontractors, and clients. Reporting to the Superintendent, your project responsibilities will include the following:
- Assisting project managers in estimating, creating schedules, ordering materials, and preparing multiple sites for start of construction
- Providing leadership and expertise for internal project planning meetings, kickoff meetings, check-ins, and debriefs throughout the course of projects
- Identifying creative construction methods to complete work requirements efficiently
- Lead and enforce on-site safety practices, including toolbox talks, hazard assessments, site inspections, and compliance with provincial health and safety requirements
- Performing general labour to support the team
- Coordinating site activities and providing general direction to internal labour and subcontractors
- Working together with project managers to maintain on-site documentation, including site instructions, contract changes, safety records, and daily job-site logs
- Inspecting completed work and ensuring the end product meets design drawings, specifications, and Pier quality standards
- Maintaining an exceptional standard of professionalism, respect, and communication on site for everyone involved, and managing conflict as it arises
- Maturing the overall services and capacities of our operations team
- Supporting and providing relief to other crews when necessary
Other Requirements
- Ability to work on the road in Manitoba
- Class 5 license is required
- Class 3 or 1A is very beneficial
- Heavy equipment experience is an asset
- Carpentry experience preferred
- Bridge experience preferred
Our Mission
Bridges in rural Manitoba and Saskatchewan are being replaced instead of repaired or neglected instead of maintained, adding undue cost to taxpayers.
Our Solution: we collaborate with local leaders to provide fiscally responsible, proactive, and preventative maintenance options.
Our Advantage: we empower clients by uniquely combining engineering and construction expertise.
Our clients include municipal, provincial, and federal governments, First Nations peoples, short-line rail companies, and trail associations. Our body of work consists of vehicular, rail and pedestrian bridges.
Apply today to join Manitoba and Saskatchewan’s leading short-span bridge company!
Find out more about us at www.pier-solutions.ca
