Superintendent

Provide visible leadership and ensure company, client, regulatory, safety, environmental, and quality requirements are consistently met.

Set clear expectations and hold employees and subcontractors accountable for safety, quality, productivity, and performance.

Ensure crews are trained, equipped, prepared, and ready to execute the work safely.

Lead and participate in toolbox meetings, hazard assessments, inspections, and other field safety activities.

Coach and support field teams while building a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Plan labour, equipment, materials, and subcontractor requirements based on scope, schedule, production targets, and field conditions.

Anticipate upcoming resource requirements and coordinate with Project Management and Operations.

Maximize crew and equipment utilization while minimizing downtime and controlling project costs.

Monitor progress against schedule, budget, productivity, and production targets.

Maintain accurate field records and communicate scope changes, site conditions, delays, and emerging risks.

Provide practical field input into construction methods, sequencing, production rates, schedules, logistics, and resource requirements.

Support the development of realistic execution plans, preliminary schedules, and labour and equipment estimates.

Participate in site visits, constructability reviews, pre-bid discussions, and project handovers.

Help transition successful bids into field execution by validating schedules, sequencing, resources, and site requirements.

Ensure proposed project commitments are practical and achievable from a field execution perspective.

Serve as a key field contact for clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and project stakeholders.

Build trusted relationships through clear communication, reliable execution, responsiveness, and follow-through.

Keep clients informed of progress, upcoming activities, site requirements, risks, and changing conditions.

Participate in site and coordination meetings and work collaboratively to resolve field issues.

Represent Backwoods professionally and build client confidence through accountability and successful project delivery.

Minimum 15 years of progressive construction experience, ideally progressing through equipment operation, labour, foreperson, or similar field roles into senior field leadership.

Minimum 5 years of experience leading crews and coordinating construction activities as a Superintendent, General Foreperson, Senior Foreperson, or comparable leader.

Significant civil construction and pipeline integrity experience, ideally within pipeline, industrial, or energy environments.

Strong practical knowledge of earthworks, excavation, grading, backfill, restoration, site logistics, and safe work around existing infrastructure.

Proven ability to plan labour, equipment, materials, subcontractors, sequencing, and production requirements.

Ability and willingness to safely operate equipment such as excavators, dozers, loaders, skid steers, and related support equipment when required.

Strong client-facing experience with the ability to build trusted working relationships and professionally resolve field issues.

Experience contributing to estimating, constructability reviews, execution planning, schedules, production assumptions, and resource plans.

Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with the ability to adapt quickly as field conditions and project priorities change.

A hands-on leadership style with a strong commitment to safety, quality, productivity, accountability, and successful project delivery.

Post-secondary education or technical training in construction management, civil construction, project management, or a related field is considered an asset; however, extensive progressive field experience is strongly valued.

At Backwoods, we value safety, integrity, accountability, cultural respect, and strong partnerships. This role provides an opportunity to bring your field experience and leadership to complex civil and pipeline projects while working closely with clients, project teams, and field crews to deliver successful results.