Solar Superintendent

Responsibilities

• Works with the project manager to ensure implementation of PCL’s safety program, including integrating PCL’s safety program into all site plans and procedures and adhering to all safety and record-keeping requirements.
• Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team, including direct and indirect reports.
• Effectively communicates with own forces and trades and ensures that performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met.
• Consistently collaborates with construction/project manager and project team. Proactively manages potential problems, work interferences, and schedule conflicts/setbacks.
• Liaises between field engineers, estimators and subcontractors to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications.
• Liaises with client, other site contractors, union and labor relations, and site and office representatives.
• Visualizes an entire project, plans and creates the complete project schedule, identifies the critical path, and anticipates constructability issues.
• Develops and implements the Project Execution Plan (PEP) and resource-loaded three-week lookahead schedules.
• Creates, maintains, and executes the project plan and schedule, and ensures compliance with budget and quality.
• Reviews and understands the contract and subcontracts, and develops a plan that identifies and mitigates risks and maximizes opportunities to ensure all financial targets, including budgets, forecasts, and profitability levels are met.
• You will report directly to the onsite Project Manager. The Projects are typically Monday to Friday, 50 hours a week, with potential to work Saturday and Sunday pending the Project schedule.

Qualifications

• A postsecondary diploma/engineering degree in a related discipline or relevant industry/trade background, not required.
• 5 years of progressive experience in utility-scale, solar project construction.
• 2 years of experience successfully supervising a construction workforce.
• Knowledge of the construction industry (particularly in utility-scale, solar project construction) and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, and methods and procedures.
• Understanding of project scope and ability to apply basic engineering principles to resolve constructability challenges.
• Understanding of project schedules and the ability to identify the critical path.
• Knowledge and understanding of P6 scheduling software.
• Understanding of self-perform productivity rates, subcontract productivity rates and Labor Cost Reports, and ability to interpret cost reports.
• Ability to coordinate multiple scopes of a construction project, including scheduling, monitoring, and coordinating subcontractors with three-week lookahead schedules.
• Understanding of material, labor, and equipment takeoffs relevant to utility-scale, solar project construction and generally.
• Familiarity with and or ability to understand virtual construction software and tools.
• Willing and able to Travel 75% - 100% of the time
• OSHA 30, not required but a plus

The salary range for this position is between $125,000 and $160,000 per annum, based on experience and qualifications.