Project Engineer - Construction

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Your mission should you accept it:

The Project Engineer ensures the comprehensive supervision and coordination of all the steps of a construction project, namely collaboration with Health and Safety, planning, quality, cost, relation with client and collaboration with subcontractors.

Do you have what it takes? Positive energy and...

• Member of a Canadian Professional Engineer Association an asset (depending on provinces)
• 2-5 years of experience in a similar role, experience in renewable energy projects an asset
• Knowledge in Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project
• High geographical mobility
• Ability to work in teams
• Excellent management, negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Ability to exercise initiative, autonomy and leadership
• Excellent team management and conflict resolution assets
• High administrative rigor
• Being able to adapt to high-stress environment and weather fluctuations (construction site)

What you will do to complete this mission successfully:

Management

• In collaboration with the Project Manager, manage all work activities on site
• Provide support to the Project Manager for insurance claims
• Prepare work cycles and developing detailed work schedules
• Supervise project facilities and site development
• Supervise suppliers, including turbine manufacturers, with respect to specifications, execution procedures and quality
• Follow up on technical relations with professionals and subcontractors, in collaboration with the Work Coordinators
• Prepare internal meetings on worker productivity, analyzing the rate of production specific to the various types of work and trades and issuing the progress report to management
• Ensure design follow-up with the consulting engineers, in collaboration with the Works Coordinator of the field of expertise concerned

Documentation

• Prepare estimates with the Coordinators of the relevant trades, contract documents and payment claims
• Update registers of technical documentation, general and technical data related to the projects and ensuring the control and conformity of the documents
• Verify the validity and obtain the necessary permits at the beginning of the work.
• Forward drawings issued for construction and oversee changes to final drawings related to the project
• Finalize the Monthly Report (MMM) with the help of the Coordinators and the Superintendent
• Ensure the completion of deliverables at the end of the project according to the progress of the work
• Finalize and transfer the contractual quality documents to the customer

Health & Safety

• Conduct site inspections prior to commencement of work
• Develop, in collaboration with the Site Health and Safety Advisor, the site safety program and participate in safety meetings and training sessions
• Provide information relevant to the follow-up of OHS incidents to the Project Manager's representative
• Participate, in collaboration with the Site Health and Safety Advisor, to the preparation of initial occupational risk analyses
• Collaborate with the Prevention Officer to ensure that all rules are respected on the site

Quality control

• Participate in the realization, the implementation and the application of the quality plan
• Conduct regular internal quality audits
• Support and approve the preparation of execution procedures, ensure their implementation and review with Coordinators and subcontractors
• List the good practice manuals needed for the project and ensure their implementation
• Ensure that building materials are inspected upon delivery and that reports are duly completed when required
• Ensure verification of the work by site engineers and subcontractors and carrying out the necessary inspections in accordance with the approved execution procedures
• Resolve non-conformities and problems on site and monitor corrective actions to be taken