Independent Contractor - Construction Manager

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Aecon Civil is a recognized leader in the market, backed by strong self‑perform capabilities and deep local expertise. We play a key role in building and enhancing infrastructure across Canada, the U.and an expanding international footprint improving everyday life through the roads, bridges, tunnels, and transit systems that connect communities. With more than a century of experience and a full suite of integrated services, Aecon is a trusted partner for delivering complex civil projects, including tunnels, transit expansions, airports, ports, highways, and large‑scale site development.

Reporting to the Deputy Project Director, the Construction Manager leads traffic management planning and coordination with stakeholders and authorities, including representation at municipal and provincial traffic operations centres. The role provides strategic input to construction planning, scheduling, budgeting, procurement, and workforce resourcing, while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, labour relations, and training requirements. The position works closely with clients, unions, and internal teams to support safe and successful project delivery.

Accountable for ensure project execution and outcomes including the development of a construction plan and strategy that achieves the project in a cost effective and timely.
Work in conjunction with the larger project team to deliver the project successfully. Maintain a positive relationship and culture with clients, subcontractor, internal staff, stakeholders, union representatives and regulatory bodies.
Drive an inclusive culture to promote equity, welcome different perspectives, and enable career progression by fostering a sense of belonging. Similarly, perform performance improvement plans for staff who are not performing.
Plans and implements a construction plan, activities, milestones, and manpower requirements. Ensuring proper staffing, materials and equipment are available to complete the plan. Identify and resolve potential risks to ensure timely and cost effective construction.
Strong understanding on prime contract and subcontracts. Identify and concisely convey changes in scope including construction acceleration and/or mitigations available to commercial, cost and scheduling teams.
Provides input, and ensure delivery of, procurement activities including validation of material specifications, preparation of purchase requisitions, material tracking and ensuring traceability of materials when installed in the field.
Review, comment and ensure implementation of project design for compliance with construction-based engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, contract requirements, industry specifications and other related specifications.
Advises, resolve and incorporate construction related issues and convey outcomes to design, technical, engineering, risk, cost and scheduling teams.
Accountable for designer performance and conveying such drawings (signed and sealed as appropriate) to permitting agencies for approval. Accountable for permitting performance. Overall accountable to ensure that construction means and methods have the appropriate design (by design partner) and permitting approved by relevant stakeholder. Ensure that subordinate coordinators are performing daily traffic configuration logs, lane closure logs and developing solutions to ensure the most timely and cost effective construction sequence. Represent the contractor at all design meeting with internal designer, stakeholder and client pertaining to traffic related matters.
Support in the resolution of labour disputes through collaboration with EPSCA and Aecon Labour Relations Manager.
Active involvement in quality assurance and quality control with regards to understating and implementing policies and procedures. Oversee field quality control and assist in the creation of risk mitigation strategies and implement where necessary.

Minimum 15 years of relevant construction experience including managing traffic, permitting and environmental and quality teams.
Requires proficient trades union relations management skills, and a solid understanding of union agreements applicable to the work
Demonstrated strong interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills, with the ability to resolve issues issues and effectively liaise with third‑party agencies, government bodies, municipalities, local transit authorities, and other stakeholders.
Knowledge of all aspects of construction such as; equipment, methods, trade agreements and jurisdiction, engineering, cost control, traffic, environmental, scheduling and safety requirements
Other considerations may include certifications, specialized training, and the complexity or scope of the role.

Aecon fosters diversity, inclusion and belonging within and across our organization. We welcome all to apply including, women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.

We are committed to adhering to the objectives and requirements outlined in the Accessible Canada Act (ACA), and to meeting the accessibility needs of persons with disabilities in a timely manner. Through the implementation of the requirements of the ACA and its applicable regulations, appropriate accommodations will be provided upon request throughout the interview and hiring process.

As part of our commitment to fair and transparent hiring practices, Aecon may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in screening and reviewing candidates. These tools are applied responsibly and in accordance with applicable privacy laws and Aecon’s AI Usage Policy.