Site Operations Manager

Socket.dev; Calgary; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ATCO Frontec is seeking a Site Operations Manager for the North of 60 Projects Team to lead field execution on complex construction projects in remote environments. The role requires strong leadership, practical problem-solving, and disciplined planning and reporting.

Key responsibilities include directing trades and vendors, coordinating electrical, mechanical, civil, and other activities, and ensuring safety, quality, and client commitments.

Qualifications

• Progressive experience leading field execution on construction, industrial, infrastructure, technology, facilities, or equipment installation projects.
• Broad practical knowledge across electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, and general construction.
• Experience supervising employees, trades, subcontractors, and vendors in active project environments.
• Ability to interpret varied design drawings, specifications, schedules, and technical documents.
• Proven ability to plan work, coordinate interfaces, solve field problems, and make decisions with limited direction.
• Strong computer skills, including email, Word, Excel, Teams, document management, and digital reporting tools.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including professional site reporting and stakeholder updates.
• Ability to work from an office or home-based setting between assignments and travel for prolonged periods to Northern sites, other project locations, supplier facilities, and partner locations.
• Valid driver's licence and ability to meet site access requirements.
• Able to obtain Federal Government Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day site execution with limited oversight and maintain a safe, accountable, and productive site culture.
• Direct employees, trades, subcontractors, vendors, and equipment operators; set priorities and coordinate daily and weekly work fronts.
• Monitor progress, workmanship, manpower, equipment, constraints, and schedule performance; address or elevate issues early.
• Make sound field decisions under pressure while protecting safety, quality, cost, schedule, and client commitments.
• Coordinate electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, and general construction activities.
• Read and interpret drawings, specifications, single-line diagrams, schematics, P&IDs, control narratives, schedules, manuals, and vendor documents.
• Identify constructability issues, design conflicts, interface gaps, and missing information; work with engineering, project management, vendors, and trades on practical solutions.
• Provide hands-on technical support and troubleshooting within applicable trade and regulatory limits.
• Support execution planning during office or home-based periods, including sequencing, look-aheads, constructability reviews, material readiness, workforce planning, and mobilization.
• Coordinate with project management, engineering, procurement, logistics, clients, subcontractors, suppliers, and local stakeholders.
• Confirm that tools, materials, equipment, permits, information, and qualified resources are available before work begins.
• Manage changing priorities, weather, transportation constraints, and limited resources common to remote project delivery.
• Prepare concise daily reports covering completed work, manpower, equipment, progress, safety, quality, weather, delays, constraints, and upcoming activities.
• Maintain photographs, timesheets, delivery and inspection records, redlines, deficiencies, field instructions, and material tracking.
• Use Microsoft 365, project management systems, and digital field tools; document field conditions and impacts supporting change management.

Job description

Who We Are

ATCO Frontec's business is organized into three operating units: Major Projects, Operations, and ATCO Frontec International. This position is part of Major Projects, which pursues and delivers large-scale construction, infrastructure, and capital projects from development through commissioning.

Position Overview

The North of 60 Projects Team, part of ATCO Frontec's Major Projects Business Unit, is seeking a versatile, hands-on Site Operations Manager to lead field execution on complex projects in remote and challenging environments. The successful candidate will combine broad technical knowledge, practical problem-solving, strong leadership, and disciplined planning and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Field Leadership & Execution

• Lead day-to-day site execution with limited oversight and maintain a safe, accountable, and productive site culture.

• Direct employees, trades, subcontractors, vendors, and equipment operators; set priorities and coordinate daily and weekly work fronts.

• Monitor progress, workmanship, manpower, equipment, constraints, and schedule performance; address or elevate issues early.

• Make sound field decisions under pressure while protecting safety, quality, cost, schedule, and client commitments.

Multi-Discipline Coordination

• Coordinate electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, and general construction activities.

• Read and interpret drawings, specifications, single-line diagrams, schematics, P&IDs, control narratives, schedules, manuals, and vendor documents.

• Identify constructability issues, design conflicts, interface gaps, and missing information; work with engineering, project management, vendors, and trades on practical solutions.

• Provide hands-on technical support and troubleshooting within applicable trade and regulatory limits.

Planning, Logistics & Project Support

• Support execution planning during office or home-based periods, including sequencing, look-aheads, constructability reviews, material readiness, workforce planning, and mobilization.

• Coordinate with project management, engineering, procurement, logistics, clients, subcontractors, suppliers, and local stakeholders.

• Confirm that tools, materials, equipment, permits, information, and qualified resources are available before work begins.

• Manage changing priorities, weather, transportation constraints, and limited resources common to remote project delivery.

Safety, Quality & Closeout

• Lead work in accordance with company, client, regulatory, and project-specific safety and quality requirements.

• Support safety meetings, hazard assessments, inspections, permits, testing, commissioning, deficiencies, non-conformances, and turnover.

• Stop or correct unsafe, non-compliant, or poor-quality work and ensure follow-up is completed.

Reporting & Documentation

• Prepare concise daily reports covering completed work, manpower, equipment, progress, safety, quality, weather, delays, constraints, and upcoming activities.

• Maintain photographs, timesheets, delivery and inspection records, redlines, deficiencies, field instructions, and material tracking.

• Use Microsoft 365, project management systems, and digital field tools; document field conditions and impacts supporting change management.

Qualifications

Required

• Progressive experience leading field execution on construction, industrial, infrastructure, technology, facilities, or equipment installation projects.

• Broad practical knowledge across electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, and general construction.

• Experience supervising employees, trades, subcontractors, and vendors in active project environments.

• Ability to interpret varied design drawings, specifications, schedules, and technical documents.

• Proven ability to plan work, coordinate interfaces, solve field problems, and make decisions with limited direction.

• Strong computer skills, including email, Word, Excel, Teams, document management, and digital reporting tools.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including professional site reporting and stakeholder updates.

• Ability to work from an office or home-based setting between assignments and travel for prolonged periods to Northern sites, other project locations, supplier facilities, and partner locations.

• Valid driver's licence and ability to meet site access requirements.

• Able to obtain Federal Government Security Clearance.

Preferred Assets

• Journeyperson certification, construction management credential, engineering technology diploma, or equivalent technical training and field experience.

• Remote Northern, Arctic, fly-in/fly-out, camp-based, or other travel-intensive project experience.

• Experience with power generation, water or wastewater treatment, building systems, controls, communications, fuel systems, utilities, or industrial equipment.

• Experience with remote logistics, testing, commissioning, start-up, deficiency resolution, and turnover.

• Experience operating or directing common site equipment such as skid steers, telehandlers, and aerial work platforms.

Leadership Profile

• Hands-on and adaptable, with the willingness to work outside a narrow job description.

• Calm and decisive under pressure, with strong ownership and follow-through.

• Practical problem-solver who communicates issues early and balances technical requirements with workable field solutions.

• Respectful leader who earns trust, coaches others, and maintains standards without unnecessary conflict.

Safety Certifications (Preferred)

CSTS 2020 or equivalent; WHMIS; Standard First Aid with CPR; Fall Protection; Elevated Work Platform / MEWP; Ground Disturbance; Confined Space; Lockout/Tagout; and other client or site-specific training as required.

Work Environment

• Combination of office or home-based project planning and field assignments.

• Frequent travel, including prolonged stints at Northern sites, other project locations, supplier facilities, and partner locations.

• Site assignments may involve camp accommodation, isolated locations, variable weather, physically demanding conditions, and extended workdays during critical periods.

Additional Information

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Personal information will be collected and used in accordance with ATCO Group privacy policies.