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About the Role
Oversees sheet metal installation, ensuring safety compliance, and managing workforce efficiency on construction or industrial sites.
Responsibilities
- Directs and coordinates sheet metal crews, foremen, and subcontractors.
- Develops work schedules, assigns tasks, and ensures project timelines are met.
- Reviews sheet metal work for compliance with engineering drawings, specifications, and industry standards.
- Ensures all safety regulations are followed, conducts site inspections, and facilitates safety meetings.
- Oversees procurement, inventory, and proper use of sheet metal materials and tools.
- Works closely with project managers, engineers, and other trades to resolve technical issues and maintain workflow.
- Identifies and addresses any operational or technical challenges related to sheet metal installations.
- Guides and develops junior employees, ensuring proper work practices and skill development.
- Maintains accurate records of labour productivity, work progress, safety reports, and project scope changes.
Requirements
- Trade Qualification
- High School Diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Excellent verbal and written communication, time management and multi-tasking skills.
- Excellent organizational and decision making/problem solving skills.
- Ability to analyze and understand construction drawings, associated documentation, contracts, cost coding systems and work breakdown structures.
- Customer focused & resourceful
- Knowledge of supervisory practices and principles.
- Ability to effectively plan, assign and inspect the work of subordinates.
- Ability to maintain time and material records and to prepare reports and cost estimates.
- Skill in the use of the tools and equipment of the trade.
- Experience in commercial and institutional projects is an asset.
Skills
- Sheet metal installation
- Safety compliance
- Workforce management
- Leadership
- Planning
- Scheduling
- Quality control
- Safety enforcement
- Material management
- Equipment management
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Training
- Mentorship
- Documentation
- Reporting
- Communication
- Time management
- Multi-tasking
- Organization
- Decision making
- Analysis of construction drawings
- Understanding of documentation, contracts, cost coding systems and work breakdown structures
- Customer focus
- Resourcefulness
- Supervisory practices
- Record keeping
- Cost estimation
- Use of trade tools and equipment
Location
- Vancouver
- Calgary
- Edmonton
- Toronto
- Southwestern Ontario
- Ottawa
Work Type
- Full-time
- Unionized
Experience Level
- Foreperson
- Supervisory
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
- Trade Qualification
Salary/Compensations
- $58.24 per hour
Benefits
- Unionized position
About the Company
- Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings.
- Committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure and communities.
- Values passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork.
- Award-winning safety culture consistently performs well above industry standards.
- Committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization.
Equal Opportunity
- Actively work to remove barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (including women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and newcomers to Canada) in the construction industry.
- Encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and lived experiences.
- Committed to a barrier-free hiring process.
- If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at careers@modernniagara.com so we can make appropriate arrangements.