Civil Foreman

**Location**: Rocky View, AB
**Reports to**: Manager, Construction
**Job Posting#**: 47-2024
**Application Deadline**: Until filled

Reporting to the **Manager, Construction**, the **Civil Foreman**, a leader in the field who is responsible for keeping jobsites safe and making sure our work is top quality. You will manage your team to ensure quality, safety, and timeliness.

**Responsibilities**:

- Reinforce company policies, ensure safe and productive completion of the work.
- Plan site projects and resource requirements, including coordination of sub-contractors as required.
- Coordinate on-site material requirements and effectively manage site materials.
- Conduct safety meetings and assist with incident reporting and investigations as required.
- Provide leadership and coaching to field direct reports.
- Maintain detailed project field documentation, reports and job closing documents.
- Provide input into performance reviews of direct reports.
- Complete full cycle field documentation of projects and submit as-builts for job closing/billing.
- Read and interpret underground shallow utility and electrical drawings / prints.
- Maintain & update project schedules daily
- Review and understand project schedule/milestones

**Qualifications**:

- Understanding of applicable codes and regulations.
- Planning skills of project completion, resource requirements and project documentation.
- Strong knowledge of civil construction, blueprint reading and understanding of specification requirements.
- Ability to lead and work within a team environment.
- Promotion of safe work practices.
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written.

**A few qualifications that would help you succeed**:

- Experience in underground Shallow Utility Construction, including 4 party installations, Distribution Powerline, Communications, or other similar work.
- Knowledge in reading and interpreting electrical drawings.
- Highly organized and proven ability to lead team.
- Valid Driver’s License and Driver’s abstract in good standing.

Primary offers a highly competitive compensation package including, competitive salaries, bonuses, Health & Dental benefits, Health Care Spending Account, flexible work schedules, Company Matching RRSP, and several career and professional development opportunities.

Primary Engineering and Construction Corporation (Primary) is a growth-oriented industry leader providing professional electrical engineering and construction services and specializing in emerging marketplaces in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

We offer design and design/build services for all types of electric utility distribution infrastructure to a wide variety of clients including electric utility companies, developers, builders, commercial and industrial businesses, oil companies, government, and private contractors. Our devotion to excellence has attracted some of the best young professional minds to our company.

**GOOD PEOPLE committed to progress****:
Primary is committed to growing the careers of our people. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to determine their career path and fulfill their ambitions. Our people are genuine, honest, accountable and full of entrepreneurial spirit.

We work hard, see the big picture, are always ready and willing to adapt, and always strive to be better than we were yesterday. We take pride and ownership in everything we do, and most of all, we do it as a team.

**HEALTH & SAFETY****:
The safety and well-being of our people, our clients, and our communities is our top priority in any work we do and is never comprised. Safety is one of the core values that every member of our team understands and lives by, and we ensure this through communication, education and participation. Our safety goal has always been zero incidents, and we work together through every project to achieve that goal.

Safety is ingrained in every project and each task our employees and contractors complete, whether in the office or onsite. Primary has developed effective workplace health and safety management programs designed to reduce and eliminate the number of work-related injuries, leading to a safety track record well above industry average. We are also diligent in selecting the companies we work with, choosing only those with a safety standard as high as our own.