Supervise the daily execution of work at construction sites to meet quality and timeliness requirements.
Our Waterloo & GTA offices are looking for an Intermediate Contract Administrator ready to join our growing Canadian Operations within our Construction Phase Services group.
The Water Group within GHD Canada works with regional and municipal clients, as well as servicing the private industry on a variety of projects across the whole spectrum of water facilities including Water & Wastewater Treatment Plants, Pumping Stations, Potable Water Towers, and Underground Water and Sewer Infrastructure. Our team provides integrated engineering services throughout the project lifecycle from asset management, planning, detailed design, and engineering services during construction.

• External Communications: Help others get the most out of external communications systems by offering support and advice.
• Construction Management: Provide operational support services and sometimes act as first-line supervisor of an area of a construction project. Involves using existing systems and protocols.
• Health, Safety, and Environment: Follow the organization’s health, safety, and environment (HSE) policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions to identify and mitigate environmental risks and risks to the well-being of self and others in the workplace; instruct the team in safe working methods; identify instances of risky behaviors within the team and take appropriate action, escalating serious issues as appropriate.
• Work Scheduling and Allocation: Assign short-term work schedules to a team of subordinates in order to achieve expectations while following established timelines.
• Leadership and Direction: Explain the local action plan, to support team members in their understanding of what needs to be done, and how this relates to the broader business plan and the organization’s strategy, mission, and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.
• Performance Management: Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance; or monitor the performance of the team, allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality, and contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal.
• Organizational Capability Building: Provide coaching to team members to develop their skills.
• Operational Compliance: Identify, within the team, instances of noncompliance with the organization’s policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these instances and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Quality Assurance: Plan and coordinate testing and inspection of products and processes. Implement corrective actions or continuous improvement initiatives and monitor them to make sure they are effective.