Site Supervisor

Cresco; Halifax; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-owned construction company in Halifax is seeking a Site Supervisor to manage daily site operations, ensuring quality workmanship and maintaining safety standards. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of site supervision experience and low-rise building expertise. This role provides an opportunity to lead teams and projects from start to finish, contributing to award-winning home developments.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in site supervision.
• Low-Rise experience with multiple full cycle builds completed in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day site operations and ensure quality workmanship.
• Lead and direct all on-site activities and establish work methods.
• Promote a culture of safety performance.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Planning

Job description

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The Opportunity

Since 1989 Cresco has built award-winning homes and communities across Halifax. The magic of this successful family-owned company is in its collaboration with customers, partners and a loyal network of builders and trades. Cresco is known for its relentless focus on quality and artistry in building homes and developing communities such as The Parks of West Bedford and The Parks of Lake Charles.

Our Site Supervisor is responsible for managing day-to-day site operations, ensuring quality workmanship, maintaining project schedules and enforcing health and safety standards. This role requires strong leadership, problem solving skills and the ability to coordinate trades, suppliers to deliver homes on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of the construction site on assigned projects ensuring the work is completed safely and consistent with Cresco standards and project specifications.
• Leading and directing all on-site activities including site security, manpower and logistics as well as establishing on-site work methods, managing material and supplies and maintaining accurate and detailed project documents.
• Providing safety leadership through implementation of Cresco Safety Program and promoting a culture of safety performance.
• Developing and driving the construction schedule in conjunction with the project team ensuring that site activities, completion dates and milestones are met.
• Leading OH&S and Environmental initiatives, promoting HS&E standards, policies, procedures, acts and regulations and ensuring they are being followed by everyone on site.
• Maintaining daily paperwork including field reports, safety inspections, schedule updates, etc.
• Ensuring sufficient manpower is provided to achieve safety, schedule and quality objectives.
• Providing people leadership through establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with site staff and subcontractors to promote positive morale.
• Forecasting any material requirements and collaborating with appropriate stakeholders to ensure that materials are supplied in a timely fashion and meet quality standards, as well as receiving and organizing materials with appropriate teams on site.
• Identifying and advising of design deficiencies, schedule interruptions or difficulties and other project issues while working collaboratively with Project Manager to resolve issues.
• Ensuring that orientations, toolbox talks, safety meetings and training are conducted as necessary.
• Such other roles and duties as the Employer may from time to time require.

Qualifications

• Low-Rise experience with multiple full cycle builds completed in a production environment
• 3-5 years experience

Core Skills

• Communication
• Leadership
• Planning

About Cresco

Cresco

Since 1989 Cresco has built award-winning homes and communities across Halifax. The magic of this successful family-owned company is in its collaboration with customers, partners and a loyal network of builders and trades. Cresco is known for its relentless focus on quality and artistry in building homes and developing communities such as The Parks of West Bedford and The Parks of Lake Charles.

Whether building single-family homes, multi-unit residential or commercial properties, or working through master-planned developments, Cresco has a long-term perspective on land acquisition, partnerships, community building and the innovative use of design and building principles.

With over fifty industry and community awards and progressive long-term thinking, Cresco is deeply committed to giving back evidenced by its active participation and support of organizations such as the Cobequid Health Centre Foundation, Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation, Dartmouth General Hospital Foundation, Halifax YMCA, Nova Scotia Home Builders Association, Urban Development Institute, Halifax Chamber of Commerce and Family Business Atlantic. Cresco has also built lottery homes for multiple charities over the past two decades.