Requisition ID: 167755
Job Level: Mid Level
Home District/Group: Kiewit Energy Canada District
Department: Field Supervision
Market: OGC
Employment Type: Full Time
As a Superintendent you will play a significant part in the success for Kiewit. Priority for our superintendents is leading your crews to build work safely, with quality and meeting schedule. Your key responsibilities include, ensuring the safety of crew members, ensuring the productivity of crew members, following OH&S and Company policies, procedures and guidelines. You will function as a field supervisor and will have responsibility for multiple Foreman and craft workers. You will be responsible for safe and efficient work execution including planning, scheduling, cost and workmanship. You will also work to maintain positive working relationships with clients, architect/engineer, suppliers, subcontractors, and jobsite staff.
Our mission is to make a difference and we offer opportunities for you to make one too through our construction operations. Whether we’re boring tunnels through mountains, turning rivers into energy or building facilities that support community’s needs, we depend on our passionate, skilled, and safety-obsessed construction professionals to get it done right. You bring your big ideas, commitment to top quality, and an unwavering work ethic. In return, we offer huge career and travel opportunities and the satisfaction of building the “next big thing” from the ground up. There’s a reason Kiewit attracts the best: we offer fast-paced excitement and fulfillment you won’t find anywhere else.
Kiewit Energy Canada is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. We are a major industrial contractor that constructs oil & gas facilities such as oilsands processing, including steam–assisted gravity drainage facilities, upgrading & refining, midstream facilities, power & co-generation, terminal projects (ex. LNG, LPG, etc.), and major mine developments. We also have a Modular Yard facility in Edmonton, Alberta with an integrated pipe fabrication shop. Our engineering branch is a leading-edge division that offers innovative engineering services for our current projects and new pursuits in Canada. Our design services group are based in Calgary and Houston offering expertise in process, piping, mechanical, electrical, and civil/structural disciplines.
One of the many things that makes Kiewit’s culture unique is that we go where the work is, which exposes your career to abundant opportunities. We relocate our teams based on the work that is available, combined with the development plans, skill sets and career goals of each team member. This means your Kiewit adventure is custom-designed to meet our shared needs.
- Promote, lead and execute a nobody gets hurt safety culture for all employees, in compliance with Kiewit’s Health Safety and Environmental Program and provincial occupational health and safety legislation
- Promote safety in all activities and engage in safe work plan development, hazard assessments, and mentorship with crew
- Provide mentorship to team members by leading safety meetings and engaging the craft with the work execution methods
- Drive quality, efficiency and productivity of work with the crews
- Understand the scope and sequencing of the work and prioritize the work, coordinate scopes and prioritize access for multiple trades
- Ensure work completed meets project specific IFC drawings, quality standards and specifications and codes
- Ensure the timely preparation and submittal of required documentation (ITP’s, as-built drawings, etc)
- Understand overall project schedule and ensure work is planned to meet the project schedule
- Understand budgets, monitor cost performance and forecast cost projections for your scope
- Setting daily production goals for the crew
- Working with the Foreman and crews to overcome challenges
- Work with the Department Manager to identify equipment and labour resource requirements
- Ensure that all performance evaluations and completed in a timely fashion for direct reports
- 8+ years' construction experience with 3+ years being in a Superintendent/Leadership capacity (Industrial experience in Oil, Gas and Chemical Preferred)
- Safety minded individual, committed to building work without hurting anyone
- Must be a self-starter, highly motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision
- Ability to quickly learn and understand various processes regarding Kiewit’s policies, procedures, and software programs
- Knowledge of OH&S regulations and legislation
- Ability to work to the project schedule which may include weekends and nightshift
- Excellent organizational, administrative, communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong experience in leadership, safety, negotiations, planning, and contract administration
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Other Requirements:
- Regular, reliable attendance
- Work productively and meet deadlines timely
- Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment
- Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
- Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
- May work at various different locations and conditions may vary
We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.
We believe in equal opportunity in employment practices without discrimination and comply with all laws regarding human rights in the provinces where we operate. 