Commercial Steel Foreman
- Grande Prairie, AB, Canada
$45 to $55 CAD / hour · Full-time
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Job details
- Pay
- $45 to $55 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- Experience: 6+ years of commercial structural steel erection, ironwork, and welding experience.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
About The Role
This is an active, working foreman role. You will balance crew management and job-site coordination with hands-on ironworking, fitting, and welding. As our in-house field team grows, you will play a key role in mentoring apprentices and developing future site leaders.
Key Responsibilities
This is an active, working foreman role. You will balance crew management and job-site coordination with hands-on ironworking, fitting, and welding. As our in-house field team grows, you will play a key role in mentoring apprentices and developing future site leaders.
Key Responsibilities
- Crew Leadership: Direct, supervise, and mentor an on-site crew of 5-10 ironworkers and welders, maintaining high standards of quality and productivity.
- Hands-On Trade Work: Actively assist with steel layout, fitting, tacking, bolting, rigging, and welding in accordance with project specifications and your certifications.
- Blueprint Reading & Planning: Interpret structural engineering and erection drawings to map out daily task assignments, site workflow, and material stages.
- Site Coordination: Oversee crane signals, critical lifts, heavy equipment staging, and material deliveries with general contractors and site superintendents.
- Safety Leadership: Conduct daily toolbox talks, enforce company and OHS safety standards, identify hazards, and maintain a proactive zero-incident site culture.
- Quality Assurance & Reporting: Inspect completed work against drawings, flag discrepancies early, and complete daily progress logs, safety sign-offs, and equipment checklists.
- Experience: 6+ years of commercial structural steel erection, ironwork, and welding experience.
- Leadership Background: Minimum 2 years as a Journeyperson Ironworker, or 1-2 years in a Foreman/Lead Hand capacity overseeing field crews.
- Trade Certification: Recognized Journeyperson Ironworker certification (Red Seal / provincial trade ticket) or equivalent authorized trade standing.
- Safety & Supervisory Credentials: Valid site supervisor training / leadership safety certification (e.g., Leadership for Safety Excellence or equivalent).
- Technical Skills: Confident in structural layout, crane signalling, rigging practices, high-strength bolting, and on-site fitting.
- Blueprint Literacy: Solid ability to read structural layouts, weld symbols, and erection drawings without constant supervision.
- Current CWB welding tickets applicable to structural field work.
- Valid driver's licence with a clean commercial driving record.
- Dual-trade capability across both structural ironwork and field welding.
- Work Location: Active commercial project sites throughout Alberta.
- Travel Requirement: Up to 75% regional travel depending on project phase. Travel schedules, rotations, and lodging arrangements will be detailed during the initial interview.
- Competitive, experience-aligned hourly rates with regular performance reviews.
- Comprehensive benefits package (Extended Health, Dental, and Vision) following the standard 3-month probationary period.
- Company vehicle and tooling supplied upon completion of probation.
- Long-term career stability and clear advancement pathways into general site superintendency.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a crew of ironworkers and welders while performing hands-on steel layout, fitting, rigging, bolting, and welding. Coordinate site workflow, lifts, equipment, and deliveries; enforce safety standards; inspect work; and maintain progress and safety records.
Requirements
Requires at least six years of commercial structural steel erection, ironwork, and welding experience, along with journeyperson ironworker certification or equivalent standing. Candidates must also have relevant leadership experience, supervisor safety training, and the ability to read structural and erection drawings and perform key field trade tasks.
Skills
- Crew Leadership
- Ironworking
- Structural Steel Erection
- Welding
- Steel Layout
- Fitting
- Rigging
- High-Strength Bolting
- Blueprint Reading
- Crane Signalling
- Site Coordination
- Safety Leadership
- Quality Assurance
- Apprentice Mentoring
Benefits
- Extended Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Company Vehicle
- Company-Provided Tools
- Career Advancement Opportunities
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Construction
- Trades
- Management & Leadership
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Commercial Structural Steel
- Ironworking
- Steel Erection
- Field Welding
- Journeyperson Ironworker
- Red Seal
- Provincial Trade Ticket
- CWB Welding Tickets
- Structural Layout
- Erection Drawings
- Structural Engineering Drawings
- Weld Symbols
- Crane Signalling
- Critical Lifts
- Rigging
- High-Strength Bolting
- Steel Fitting
- Tacking
- Material Staging
- Heavy Equipment
- Toolbox Talks
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Hazard Identification
- Quality Assurance
- Daily Progress Logs
- Safety Sign-Offs
- Equipment Checklists
- Leadership for Safety Excellence
- General Contractor Coordination
- Apprentice Mentoring