Company

STRACOR INC.

Location

Mississauga Ontario, Canada

Duration

Dec 2016 -  Present

Position

Responsibilities:

Main Duties:

Associate Director

Main Functions:

Reporting to the Director – Project Management, the Associate Director is responsible and accountable for overseeing multiple, simultaneous projects of varying degrees of size, complexity and sensitivity. The Associate Director is responsible for managing and supervising assigned staff at the head office and each construction site, ensuring that all projects are completed on schedule, on budget, and that standards of quality and safety are met. Ensuring Client and Consultant satisfaction with ongoing and completed work while maximizing margin is critical.

Management:

• Manage staff as assigned including but not limited to Project Managers, Project Coordinators, Site Supervisors and Estimating/Procurement personnel.

• Manage portfolio of projects, clients, and/or contracts in all aspects of project delivery.
• Manage financial set-up, monitoring, assessment and analysis to ensure success of above. Review projects with staff to determine cost versus revenue issues and work to improve margin on a project-by-project and overall basis.
• Provide ideas and implementation of change for efficient, effective and successful tendering processes and project management delivery.
• Assist in the management and delivery of Procurement (pre-qualifications/tendering/trades and client management), Project Management, Project Administration, Contract Management, Close-Out Processes, Financial Management, and Business Development.
• Assist in the management of Clients, Consultants and Trades. Engage in a client retention program to ensure satisfaction and continued tender opportunities with existing clients. Develop new opportunities wherever possible to expand existing relationships and create new ones.
• Manage H&S Program as an Employee Representative including working on the COR submission, staff training and overall delivery of the H&S initiatives of Stracor.
• Work to increase revenue and profitability of projects by utilizing best practices to achieve cost, labour, time and other savings, and by working to achieve improvements in project costs.
• Attend meetings as required such as site visits, tender deliveries, construction meetings, deficiency/hand-over reviews, commissioning exercises, and other management meetings.

Project Management:

• Manage projects as assigned. Ensure that activities at various sites are sequenced correctly.
• Review the tender documents, specifications, drawings and plans, to gain a full understanding of how the bid was put together.  Meet with the estimator to review the bid, job costing, trades, client and contract requirements, allowances and other bid pricing, and special issues.
• Coordinate daily with the Site Supervisor(s) and the Project Coordinator. Manage their activities as they relate to project delivery.
• Use scheduling software (MS Project) at a competent level to create and update project schedules, and to identify obstacles to completion or ways to improve.
• Complete project documentation as required – schedules, minutes, reports, project summaries, contract changes, quotations, etc.
• Complete financial administration work as required for all projects – schedule of values, cost summaries and breakdowns, draw requests, invoices, and holdback calculations.
• Review/Approve trades invoicing for inclusion in monthly progress draws and for appropriate payment schedule and terms.
• Work with Clients, Designers and Trades re cash flow, budgets, delays and revisions to schedule, design and deliverables.
• Ensure each project adheres to quality control and required H&S standards. Ensure that safety is made a top priority.
• Carry out shop drawing/submittal reviews, review materials/equipment data sheets for compliance with contract requirements.
• Review drawings discrepancies in the field for discussion with project team and work with Project Coordinator to process request for extras or contemplated change orders.
• Complete costing for all contract changes including working with trades, suppliers and in-house staff. Understand costing for General Conditions, Site and Valuation of Changes of each contract.
• Resolve contract, trades and site disputes in a timely, professional manner with appropriate negotiation and management skill.
• Work with manager to set targets and goals, implement plan, and monitor progress.

Company

TORCON

Location

Mississauga Ontario, Canada

Duration

Sep 2013 -  Dec 2016

Position

Director Project Delivery

Responsibilities:

• Support, coach, develop and mentor a seasoned project team; project managers, project coordinators, site supervisors
• Take an active role in the selection of high level staff, including monitoring performance, providing feedback and taking corrective action when required
• Oversight of all projects under portfolio
• Monitors and reports on schedules and costs, margins and profitability
• Collaborate with the estimating department to ensure effective handoff of new projects
• Maintain, develop and nurture key relationships with subs, suppliers, owners & consultants
• Keeps track of lessons learned and shares those lessons with the team for continuous improvement
• Business Development: create, develop and implement Facility services. Prepare brochures/ CCDC-11 and technical bid packages for new client.
• Construction Management: Estimates project engineering/ construction/ allowances/ contingency costs, and forecast time frame. Prepared Tender documents (Front End), invitation to Tender, Conducted Mandatory Site visits, Prepared Tender evaluation recommendation,
• Project control: issued and controlled cost summary breakdown identifying Trades cost in all disciplines/divisions.
• Prepared pre-qualifications packages.
• Budgeting: Tendered bids including addendums, identified scope of work, resolved technical issues for subcontractors and reviewed estimates, and recorded details of extra work including identifying scope-labour-material-overhead, reviewing estimates and submissions for the execution of change orders.
• Project administration: Involved in contract administration: records of all drawings, Company database, Notice of project and Form-1000 Documents, preparation of subcontractors agreements and detailed packages for subcontractors, progress draws, invoicing and statements, obtain the appropriate permits and clearances.
• Scheduling: Prepared construction schedules, monitored & updated schedule on weekly basis, elaborated project schedules of values, minutes of meetings and site reports.
• Planning: Coordinated & scheduled respective trades for upcoming work.
• Supervision: Proficiently managed site operations by exercising leadership and authority under the directions of the Project Manager. Monitored project progress periodically to assess quality of work & progress.
• Quality Control and assurance, Testing Methods: Coordinate with testing companies for test results of various items like compaction-concrete-structural steel-roofing. Checking rebar’s installation on site & reviewing same with the inspectors. Evaluate and recommend materials.
• Liaison with architects, engineers, city officials and testing/inspection firms to ensure all requirements of the project were fulfilled and were in accordance with specifications.
• Reviewing shop drawings & sending for approval to architects & engineers.
• Implement safety procedures on site.
• Assisted with maintaining photographic record of project progress and monitors document control personnel to insure complete and accurate records.

Company

Stracor Ltd.

Location

Mississauga Ontario, Canada

Duration

July 2008 -  Sep 2013

Position

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Construction Management
• Prepared pre-qualifications packages
• Budgeting
• Project administration
• Scheduling
• Planning
• Supervision
• Quality Control and assurance, Testing Methods
• Liaison with architects, engineers, city officials and testing/inspection firms to ensure all requirements of the project were fulfilled and were in accordance with specifications.
• Reviewing shop drawings & sending for approval to architects & engineers.
• Implement safety procedures on site. Holding biweekly safety meetings with all respective sub-trades.
• Assisted with maintaining photographic record of project progress and monitors document control personnel to insure complete and accurate records.

Company

YORK Contracting Ltd.

Location

Vaughan Ontario, Canada

Duration

July 2002  – July 2008

Position

Project Manager/ Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Budgeting
• Project control
• Project administration
• Scheduling
• Planning
• Quality Control and assurance, Testing Methods
• Liaison with architects, engineers, city officials and testing/inspection firms to ensure all requirements of the project were fulfilled and were in accordance with specifications.
• Reviewing shop drawings & sending for approval to architects & engineers.
• Implement safety procedures on site. Holding biweekly safety meetings with all respective sub-trades.
• Preparation and updating of CCDC-11.
• Assisted with maintaining a photographic record of project progress and monitors document control personnel to ensure complete and accurate records.``

Company  

DeMan Construction Corporation

Duration

April 2002  – June 2002    (Two Month Co-op Program)

Location

Mississauga Ontario, Canada

Position

Architectural/Engineering Technician

Company

DISTRAL S.A. c/o BRITISH PETROLEUM EXPLORATION COMPANY

Duration

Nov. 1996 – June 2001

Location

Cusiana/Cupiagua, Caucasia, Miraflores, Porvenir – Colombia

Position

QA / QC Civil Engineer

Company

DISTRAL S.A. c/o BRITISH PETROLEUM EXPLORATION COMPANY

Duration

Nov. 1995 – Aug. 1996

Location

Bogota – Colombia

Position

Contract Negotiator

Chief Engineer

Mr. Carlos Matajira, P. Eng.