E&i Services Manager

Primoris Canada is an infrastructure contractor serving major firms in the oil, gas, power, petrochemical, and heavy oil industries and include services covering tailings and hydro-transport pipeline construction and maintenance, EPC storage tank construction and maintenance, industrial facilities multi-discipline construction and maintenance, piping fabrication, piling design/fab/installation, pipeline integrity services, and turnarounds.

**SUMMARY**

The E&I Services Manager will be responsible for effectively and efficiently guiding the development and directions of the E&I Service line, increasing revenue, productivity, and promote high quality client satisfaction while building relationships and ensuring the integration of strategic plans with company operations.

**Start Date**: ASAP

**Work Location**: Acheson, AB

**JOB DUTIES**
- Continuous involvement in business development efforts, meeting with prospective clients, and assessing potential opportunities
- Work with prospective subcontractors to establish a relationship prior to bidding and execution
- Bid development and review meetings:

- Manage/develop estimating norms (Rates of Placement)
- Develop and review construction execution strategies and plans
- Develop and review clarifications and exclusions to minimize risk when executing
- Develop and review schedule WBS activities, durations/sequence
- Review key production and performance factors, project schedule, subcontracting strategies, and supply responsibilities
- Provide feedback to estimating on key indicators with bid to actual comparison
- Question plans for project parameters to get confidence that issues and concerns have been considered (staffing, labour market, accommodation, shift rotation travel, attrition, environmental issues, zoning, etc.)
- Provide direction in setting up projects inclusive of:

- Reviewing contract documents to make sure tender conditions are included (price, exclusions), ensure understanding in departmental requirements for quality, controls, and safety
- Assist and review with development of control budget from the final estimate, passing to accounting for set-up
- Review and assist with setting up progressing metrics (rules of credit, quantities)
- Hire/build execution team(s)
- Assist project managers as necessary with preliminary mobilization
- Ensure companywide involvement and awareness of upcoming project requirements (hold project and facility kick-off meetings)
- Generate benchmarks and targets for project managers
- Provide on-going support to active projects:

- Show corporate presence to both project team and clients by frequently travelling to project sites
- Liaise with the client to ensure satisfaction with the Company’s Management Team
- Meet with key project personnel to assess job status (safety, quality, productivity)
- Ensure project controls and reporting are satisfactory to assess performance on a corporate level
- Ensure company resources (labour, materials, equipment, facilities, etc.) are used in the most efficient/cost effective way
- Make recommendations for project operations
- Assess project staff performance and contribution, provide coaching to subordinate staff and goal development
- Identify training opportunities (3rd party or internal)
- Review and approve internal project performance reports
- Work with estimating to implement a consistent method of turning an estimate into a control budget
- Create and maintain initiatives to ensure new project managers spend time with all corporate departments to learn company procedures and functions
- Collaborate with business units, departments within the Management Team to develop improvement initiatives within the organization
- Other duties as required

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a similar supervisory role
- Minimum of 15 years’ experience in industrial construction, Electrical & Instrumentation
- Professional Engineering Designation or Trade Ticket is preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline
- Strong understanding of all aspects of industrial construction, including project management, safety, and quality
- Experience with:

- Microsoft Suite products (Excel, Word)
- Estimating software
- Proposal development
- Scheduling (Primavera P6)
- Planning development (work plans, model reviews, constructability)
- Green/brown field construction, turn-arounds
- Demolition/retirement
- Project reporting (internal & client)
- Change management
- Contract reviews

Please note: periodic travel may be required for site visits

**BENEFITS**
- Health Care
- Dental Care
- Life Insurance
- Weekly Pay Schedule
- RRSP Matching

Primoris embraces the belief that our employees are our greatest asset and most valuable resource. We realize that a successful company depends on skilled, happy workers. Because of this belief, we put forth every effort to make Primoris the employer of choice for our employees. Our comprehensive benefits pac