General Superintendent

**General Superintendent**

Construction - Langley, British Columbia

We're seeking a **General Superintendent **for a group of companies in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. For the past 20 years, they've built a reputation for excellence in pre-construction, construction management, and general contracting services for commercial, institutional, and civil projects across British Columbia. With new growth, they're seeking a proactive and experienced **General Superintendent **to join the team. Truly valuing safety, teamwork, trust, accountability, continuous learning, and high performance.

For the past two decades, our client has built a reputation for excellence in pre-construction, construction management, and general contracting services for commercial, institutional, and civil projects.

The **General Superintendent **is responsible for collaboratively and proactively managing all projects on time and on-budget.

**Job Responsibilities **include, but are not limited to:
**SAFETY**
- Overall responsibility for the site safety for all projects
- Provide oversight and direction to the Site Superintendents and safety consultants/employees to ensure compliance with occupational health and safety requirements and best practices on-site to meet or exceed all WorkSafe BC regulations and requirements
- Stop unsafe work or any work that does not meet our requirements and standards
- Ensure daily safety meetings, hazard assessments and site inspections take place through weekly checks
- Ensure site and safety orientations and requirements for everyone on site
- Actively contribute to the Joint Health and Safety Committee

**PROJECT OVERSIGHT**
- Works with the Site Superintendents and Project Managers to facilitate all projects
- Manage the oversight of all projects by guiding the successful planning, management, and completion of multiple projects on time, on budget through strong collaboration and communication
- Ensure collaboration with Project Managers, staff, consultants, sub-contractors and clients to establish and run the scope of work, project budgets, labour, and schedules to ensure that all milestone and completion dates are met
- Manage and coordinate all job schedules and allocates resources accordingly
- Oversight of construction and trade contracts
- Provide oversight to source, organize and manage construction supplies
- Oversight of the communications with municipal building inspectors
- Ensure Site Superintendents manage tools, rentals and secure the site by the end of each shift

**COMMUNICATION & DOCUMENTATION OVERSIGHT**
- Lead all communication and updates between the site and the office
- Ensure the completion of all Site Superintendent project documentation
- Ensure daily work logs are completed and employee work hours are approved for all projects
- Ensure all documentation required to meet the requirements of construction and trade contracts
- Ensure all necessary building, trade and occupancy permits are obtained
- Establish deficiency lists are fully remedied in an efficient & expedited manner
- Ensure all close-out documents and tasks are completed

**REPORTING**
- Meet weekly, and as needed, with the VP of Construction Operations to report on project progress, successes, and challenges

**LEAD AND MENTOR**
- Manage and mentor team members to excel both personally and professionally
- Provide regular and ongoing performance feedback and guidance

**Other duties, as required**
- Ongoing

**Required Experience & Skills**:

- Exceptional leadership skills and the ability to positively motivate others
- Exceptional **communication **, management, customer service, problem-solving, and **organizational skills**:

- Strong construction safety knowledge, leadership, and approach to all work
- 15+ years of site management experience in commercial, institutional, and civil construction
- Strong working knowledge with **MS Project **, Office, and construction management, accounting and estimating software
- General knowledge and familiarity with standard construction contracts and contractual terms and practices
- Proven experience successfully collaborating with and managing consultants, sub-trades & in-house **staff **to meet their objectives
- Technically strong with the ability to analyze project, architectural, structural, mechanical & electrical plans, specifications, and permits
- Access to a vehicle and a valid driver’s license to drive to project sites throughout the lower mainland