Area Construction Manager

Company Description

Bantrel is proud to be a leading provider of Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) services in Canada.

Since our inception in 1983, we have delivered end-to-end solutions for some of Canada’s most challenging and complex energy, mining and infrastructure projects, with an unrelenting focus on safety, while delivering to the highest degree of quality. Bantrel performs design and procurement services from our Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto offices and delivers construction management and self perform construction services at various Client sites across Canada.

Our global reach and local touch is demonstrated by our affiliation with our parent company, Bechtel Corporation, one of the largest EPC companies in the world, and with McCaig Investments, a Canadian owned private company with longstanding ties to the local business community.

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Job Description

We are currently seeking a qualified Area Construction Manager to join our Mining team, based out of Northern Nevada. The Area Construction Manager will be responsible for managing subcontractors, and supervising superintendents on projects. Will provide oversight to the subcontractor and ensure that their staff are productive, comply with project policies, procedures, and job site work rules and procedures, and perform within specifications, schedules and budgets.for and have the opportunity to work on Thacker Pass, this innovative EPCM project with Lithium Americas once complete, will produce more lithium carbonate than any other facility in the country – enough to power 1 million electric vehicles annually! Join us in this full time permanent role and be a champion of diversity and inclusion.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Must be eligible for a TN VISA to work in the United States.

Position will be a 6 on, 2 off rotation within the state of Nevada.  The project is located in the high desert and wide-open spaces of north-central Nevada about 25 miles from the Oregon border, 1 hour northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada and 3 hours northeast of Reno.

As the EPCM contractor for Lithium Americas, Bechtel is responsible for managing and integrating the efforts of a team contractors engineering and building the facility.  They are also managing procurement of about $1 Billion in goods and services.

Earth work began in 2023 and design and procurement of long-lead equipment is underway.

Planned with sustainability and the environment in mind, the facility will use its excess process heat to generate electricity and will recycle process water up to seven times. Once the second phase of the project is complete, Thacker Pass will produce more than 16 times the current U.S. output of lithium.

Bantrel and Bechtel are proud to play a critical role in the U.S. transition to cleaner energy and offers the following opportunity on the Thacker Pass Project.

Major Responsibilities:

Leadership / Supervision (Management of Construction Contractor with 100+ multidiscipline craft) 

• Proactively engages with their team’s development through CPM, Competency development/assessment and feedback 
• Supervises and directs Contractor, subordinate superintendents, and others, as assigned. 

Planning / Productivity 

• Ensures Construction Contractor executes its contracted work in accordance with the project schedule.
• Manages interface planning with common site services. 
• Prepares reports and forecasts, including summary of construction progress, craft personnel forecasts, and expenditures forecast. 

Safety & Quality 

• Ensures assigned construction operations and subcontractors’ performance are in compliance with specifications Responsible for the implementation of corporate/project policies, procedures, and instructions within assigned operations. 
• Monitors work activities and ensures the quality of work performed. 

Technical 

• Works with Construction Field Engineers, Foremen, and Craft Professionals, in interpreting Engineering design documents, vendor documents, and other technical documents 
• Coordinates engineering solutions with Subcontractors and Engineering

Qualifications

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's or master's degree and 13-15 ye