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Vice President, Construction

Fibre-to-the-Home Build Program | Greater Toronto Area, Ontario

About Our Client:

Internet Service Provider

The Position & How You Will Contribute:

Our client is looking for a Vice President, Construction to take command of its fibre-to-the-home build. Based in the GTA and reporting to the CEO, you’ll own delivery of a roughly $150 million-a-year owner-side construction program, built by third-party contractors across several GTA markets at once.

Responsibilities:

Build Delivery & Predictability

Contractor Management & Quality

• Set and run contractor strategy: selection, unit pricing, capacity against the build plan, performance scorecards, change orders and close-out.
• Actively manage the contracts and enforce the guardrails already in place; act quickly when contractors miss on schedule, workmanship or restoration.
• Raise quality standards across the program and make sure no area is released without complete and accurate as-builts.

Team Leadership

• Lead the construction organization – a Manager of Construction and a team of supervisors, coordinators and inspectors.
• Build a culture where supervisors hold contractors accountable, with clear expectations, coaching and a sensible on-call model.

Permits, Safety & Construction Finance

• Manage the path to permission to build: municipal consents, road occupancy and pole attachment applications, utility coordination and Ontario One Call locates; build relationships with municipal staff in each new market.
• Own construction safety and damage prevention, including contractor pre-qualification, OHSA compliance, site audits and incident follow-through.
• Run construction finances with discipline: forecast versus budget, holdbacks and payment obligations under Ontario’s Construction Act, and clean inputs to Finance.
• Manage the handoffs – upstream with engineering and design, downstream with network, installation and field teams – so built areas become sellable areas without delay.

About You:

• You’ve led construction programs of $100 million or more a year, with multiple contractors across multiple municipalities.
• You know how the work actually gets done in the field – whether you came up through construction, civil or utility work, or network engineering.
• You manage contractors firmly and fairly, and you’re commercially sharp on unit-price contracts, change orders and claims.
• You plan ahead and deliver predictably; you don’t confuse firefighting with progress.
• You’re visible on site and comfortable spending most of your week with crews and vendors.
• You’re comfortable with numbers and systems (GIS, project tracking, reporting) and can build a reporting rhythm leadership and investors trust.
• Ontario permitting, One Call, OHSA and Construction Act knowledge is an asset – it’s learnable for the right person.
• Telecom or fibre construction experience is an asset; P.Eng., C.E.T. or PMP a plus.
• You thrive in a smaller, fast-moving company with no ego and no hiding, and you have the breadth to grow into a broader operations role over time.

Must Have Experience:

• Construction and project management leadership
• $100M+ annual construction program delivered through third-party contractors
• Multiple contractors across multiple municipalities
• Hands-on, field-based leader who holds contractors accountable
• Strong planner – predictability and quality
• Ontario permitting, One Call, OHSA and Construction Act knowledge – asset