Civil Foreman

About Us

Forbes Bros. Group of Companies is a leading utility infrastructure contractor helping power communities across Canada and the United States. Built on family roots, we value safety, hard work, and getting the job done right for our clients. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities to build your skills and grow your career.

Role Details

• Work arrangement: Field-based work on active construction sites, outdoors in varying weather conditions and around heavy equipment, excavations, and overhead and underground utilities.
• Union: This recruitment is for a union-represented position.
• Schedule: Extended hours, overtime, weekends, or shift work as required by project schedules.
• Travel: Travel to various project locations is required.
• Employment requirements: Successful completion of pre-employment and/or pre-access drug and alcohol testing where required for site access.

The Opportunity

The Distribution Civil Foreman leads a crew of construction workers, apprentices, laborers, and equipment operators on distribution construction projects. You will plan daily activities, coordinate resources, and adjust work sequences to deliver work safely, efficiently, on budget, and in accordance with project schedules, specifications, and customer requirements.

This is a hands-on leadership opportunity for an experienced civil construction professional who enjoys developing a crew and solving challenges in the field. You will oversee work ranging from excavation and concrete to underground infrastructure and site restoration while maintaining consistent safety and quality standards.

Key Elements of the Role

• Supervise civil construction activities, including excavation, trenching, backfilling, foundations, concrete work, pole installation, duct banks, underground infrastructure, and site restoration.
• Establish and adjust work sequences and coordinate daily crew, material, tool, and equipment requirements to meet project schedules and milestones.
• Interpret drawings, specifications, work orders, and contract documents, identify constructability concerns, and resolve field issues and deficiencies promptly.
• Lead safe work practices and conduct quality control inspections to ensure construction meets company requirements, applicable legislation and codes, customer expectations, and project standards.
• Coordinate with other crews, subcontractors, utilities, and trades. Monitor productivity and communicate progress, delays, material requirements, and project concerns to project management.
• Provide direction, instruction, coaching, and mentoring to crew members and developing construction personnel, and perform hands-on field work as required.
• Operate and oversee the safe use of tools and equipment, ensure proper care of company vehicles and assets, and maintain a clean, organized, and safe worksite.

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum four years of civil construction experience, preferably in utility, electrical distribution, telecommunications, or related infrastructure projects.
• Previous experience leading or supervising a construction crew, with the ability to instruct, train, and mentor workers.
• Experience in distribution civil construction, including excavation, trenching, foundations, concrete, pole bases, underground infrastructure, duct banks, and site restoration.
• Ability to interpret blueprints, construction drawings, specifications, work orders, and contract documents and use them to plan work sequences, resource requirements, and installation procedures.
• Experience operating or overseeing construction tools and equipment, with a strong understanding of safe construction methods, jobsite coordination, and practical solutions to constructability issues.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with a strong work ethic and the ability to work independently and contribute positively to a team.
• Ability to perform physically demanding field work and regularly lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
• A valid driver’s license and the ability to obtain and maintain required site or project-specific certifications.
• Experience around active utility infrastructure and familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams are assets.

Forbes Bros. Group of Companies and its affiliated entities are committed to providing a respectful and accessible recruitment process.

Employment is subject to the requirements of the applicable role, location, project, and employing entity. Depending on the position, this may include verification of work authorization, background screening, driver abstract, drug and alcohol screening, credential verification, client/site access requirements, and other pre-employment conditions permitted by applicable law.

Applicants who require accommodation during the recruitment process are encouraged to contact the recruitment team.