Construction Manager

**Construction Manager - Microtunneling**
**Full-time, Permanent**
**Edmonton or Calgary**
**IER**:Eligible - Tier 1

**WHO WE ARE**
Celebrating 60 years of People | Projects | Values around the world
Michels is an established energy and infrastructure organization with 25 years in Canada. We support Canada’s prosperous future by constructing safe, reliable infrastructure solutions to serve the public’s energy, water and wastewater, and transportation needs.

We care about doing what is best for our people, our customers, the communities in which we work and our country. We strive to provide our employees with meaningful and challenging work, and an engaging and collaborative environment.
Michels Canada headquarters is based in Nisku, Alberta, Canada.

**DESCRIPTION**

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Maintain and promote a strong safety culture for all employees, vendors, and customers and follow all safety policies, procedures, and regulations. Identify and communicate workplace hazards and correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions.
- Manage all microtunneling and associated civil construction activities on-site to maintain targeted/scheduled production within budget.
- Supervise foreman and assigned crews and work with Project or Divisional Director to recruit, select, hire, and terminate field employees as required.
- Assist foreman with scheduling work, crews, tools, and equipment for efficiency and to minimize travel time. Responsible for regular maintenance on, and the appearance of all equipment. Work with PM to update schedule. Manage materials, tools, and supplies at the field level.
- Participate in planning field execution strategies with respect to job setup, traffic control plans, inversion direction, bypass design, setup, and operation, installation method, cure method, and cure time.
- Review production schedules along with work in progress and take corrective action to maintain profitability, and report work in progress promptly and accurately; approve pay sheets, vendor invoices and daily field reports.
- Schedule, coordinate, and oversee subcontractors.
- Track project expenditures and assist with monthly cost projections.
- Assist project managers with bid projects, including sharing innovative cost-saving ideas.
- Identify changes in project scope and/or conditions. Assist Project Manager in processing change orders.
- Develop and deploy mitigation tactics to eliminate claims from homeowners and businesses.
- Perform training needs analyses for field personnel and provide recommendations for skills improvement and cross training.
- Process submittals for assigned projects for owner’s approval.
- Other duties as assigned.

**REQUIREMENTS**
- 12 years of experience working as a Construction Manager for large general contractors focused on MicroTunneling for water/sewer infrastructure.
- Ability to understand and work with engineering and technical drawings as well as project schedules.
- Strong working experience in MicroTunneling projects.
- Flexibility to travel when required up to 50%.
- Must possess a valid driver license for the type(s) of vehicles which may be driven.

**DESIRED SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS**
- Valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL).
- Experience with: Primavera, HCSS (Heavy Job), and Microsoft Project.

**EDUCATION**
- Bachelor’s degree in civil or mechanical engineering or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience PMP certification.

**LANGUAGES**
- Must be able to communicate verbally and through written language (by hand and digitally) in English.

**BENEFITS**

***Fraud Alert**
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- **Formal offers of employment are only made once the recruitment and selection process are complete. Personal information and banking information is NOT collected until you have been personally onboarded by our HR Team.**:

- **We do not extend any formal offers of employment or execute employment agreements through text messaging, social media, job posting websites or social chat platforms.**

**COMPANY**: Michels Canada
** LOCATION**: Canada | Nisku, AB
** EMPLOYMENT DURATION**: Full Time
** JOB POSTED**: 02/17/25