Assistant Contractor Jobs in Markham, ON (NOW HIRING)

Over the last 30 years in Ontario, Ledcor has continued to grow and evolve and is now a leading provider of construction services across the province. From our early days building infrastructure and developing communities, to our more recent work in the heavy civil and mining, residential, and aviation sectors, we have always been driven by our commitment to safety, quality, integrity, sustainability, and success.
Ready to make your mark on a landmark transit project?
Ledcor is seeking an Assistant Project Manager, Stations to join our team on a major transit project in Markham, Ontario. This site-based role is ideal for a construction professional with experience delivering transit stations, transportation infrastructure, and heavy civil projects. Reporting to the Project Manager, you will support all aspects of project execution, including civil, structural, architectural, and building systems scopes, while contributing to project controls, commercial management, stakeholder coordination, and successful project delivery.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Support the planning, execution, and delivery of a station infrastructure project, including civil, structural, architectural, and building systems scopes.
• Assist in managing project budgets, cost forecasts, cash flow projections, invoicing, progress claims, and monthly reporting requirements.
• Maintain project schedules and work closely with project controls teams to track progress, identify risks, develop recovery plans, and achieve key milestones.
• Coordinate procurement activities, including tender preparation, bid evaluations, scope reviews, subcontract awards, and material/equipment tracking.
• Support contract administration activities, including change management, claims documentation, subcontract management, and commercial correspondence.
• Monitor project performance by tracking cost, schedule, productivity, risk, and quality metrics, and provide recommendations for corrective actions when required.
• Collaborate with owners, consultants, designers, municipalities, utility providers, regulatory agencies, and other project stakeholders to facilitate project execution.
• Coordinate interdisciplinary construction activities and manage interfaces between civil, structural, architectural, track, rail systems, and MEP scopes.
• Review drawings, specifications, design packages, and construction plans to identify opportunities for optimization, constructability improvements, and risk mitigation.
• Assist with the management of RFIs, submittals, shop drawings, permits, and project documentation.
• Participate in project meetings, stakeholder meetings, and coordination sessions while preparing action plans and follow-up items.
• Identify project risks and opportunities and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impacts on schedule, budget, and project performance.
• Support commissioning, turnover, and closeout activities to ensure successful project completion.
• Demonstrate leadership in health, safety, and environmental protection by promoting compliance with Ledcor HS&E standards, project safety requirements, and applicable legislation.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in construction as an Assistant Project Manager, Project Coordinator, Project Engineer, or similar project management role.
• Post-secondary education in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Engineering Technology, or a related discipline.
• Experience delivering transit, rail, transportation, station, heavy civil, bridge, roadway, structural, or major infrastructure projects.
• Experience working for a General Contractor on large-scale infrastructure projects in Canada.
• Strong understanding of project management principles including scheduling, project controls, forecasting, budgeting, cost management, and contract administration.
• Experience coordinating multiple construction disciplines, including civil, structural, architectural, and building systems scopes.
• Knowledge of construction contracts, procurement processes, change management, and commercial management practices.
• Experience working in active rail corridors or transportation environments is considered a strong asset.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation or eligibility for registration in Ontario is an asset.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, AutoCAD, and related construction management software.
• Valid provincial driver's license.

Working Conditions:

• Site based position in Markham, Ontario

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Compensation

$97,200.00 - $129,600.00

This is the expected base pay range for this role. Individual base pay will be determined based on a variety of factors including experience, knowledge, skills, education and location.

Our competitive total rewards package provides compensation and benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing. We offer exciting, challenging work with opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge.

Additional Information

Ledcor builds and maintains infrastructure in various industries including oil and gas, transportation, and mining. We're experts in all infrastructure construction and maintenance related projects. Our vast projects include: full-scale contract mining, earthworks, foundations, highways, bridges, roads, waterways and resources, airports, rapid transit, underground utilities, pipelines, independent power projects and site reclamation.

Our workplace culture has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers, Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, and a Top 100 Inspiring Workplace in North America.

Employment Equity

At Ledcor we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion should be part of everything we do. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other identifying characteristic are encouraged to apply.

Our True Blue team consists of individuals from all backgrounds who contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to Ledcor. We are committed to continuing to build on our culture of empowerment, inclusion and belonging.

Adjustments will be provided in all parts of our hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance by submitting a request via email. For more information about Ledcor's Inclusion and Diversity initiatives, please visit our I&D page.