Nuvo Construction is hiring a Site Manager to lead our field team and own the quality, schedule, and client experience of every project we build. This is the leadership role on the ground — you'll run your crew, set the standard for trades on site, and own the customer relationship from kickoff through closeout.
This isn't a lead carpenter or foreman role with a bigger title. This is a leadership position where you'll manage a field team and trades across multiple residential projects (some commercial), hold the line on schedule and quality, facilitate difficult conversations with clients, and own the closeout discipline that decides whether a project finishes clean or drags.
If you're a seasoned Site Manager looking for a company that'll back your calls, work with trades who deliver, and let you finish projects clean — this is it.
What You'll Deliver
- Hit budget and schedule. Field budgets land within 3% of target. Project milestones land on schedule. When something slips, you own the diagnosis and lead the recovery.
- Drive closeout discipline. Deficiency lists clear within 30 days of substantial completion. No projects sitting open because the easy part is done and the closeout got pushed.
- Own the client relationship. You're running every client conversation from kickoff to closeout — without escalation. You handle the hard ones directly — setting expectations, guiding scope, framing change requests proactively — and you keep the relationship strong while you do it.
- Build a team that performs. Your crew knows the standard, hits the standard, and keeps each other to it. Multiple team members have stepped into more responsibility, taking on harder work with real autonomy.
- Zero compromises on safety and quality. Health and safety is the baseline, not a checkbox. No incidents that should have been preventable. No quality issues that come back as warranty calls.
What This Role Looks Like Day-to-Day
You'll split your time between leading on site, managing the client relationship, and protecting the work: walking sites and checking standards; coaching your team and your trades through problems; running client meetings, including the difficult ones; coordinating schedules and materials so the next phase is ready when it needs to be; pushing closeout — paperwork, deficiencies, final handoffs — across the line; solving the problems that surface in the field; and meeting with ownership weekly to report on performance and flag risks.
You'll report directly to Ben Pond, one of our owners. The goal is straightforward: this role brings dedicated leadership to our field operations. Your job is to provide it.
Who We're Looking For
- Experience: You've worked as a Site Superintendent or Site Manager in residential construction. You understand how a project gets scheduled, sequenced, and handed off to closeout. You can read a drawing set, forecast critical tasks/components, run trades, and walk a site with authority.
- Leadership: You've led a crew before, and you're not waiting for permission to do it again. You can hold people accountable without losing them. You develop your team instead of doing their work for them.
- Resilience: You stay steady when projects get relationally difficult. Clients, trades, team members — when one of them gets hard, you don't disengage and you don't escalate. You hold the line firmly and kindly.
- Influence: You can redirect a client, challenge unreasonable expectations, and guide the scope conversation while keeping the relationship strong.
- Decision-making: You make calls with incomplete information and move on. You don't need permission to solve problems that are clearly within your scope. You're more worried about moving too slow than making a mistake.
- Closeout discipline: You love the last 5–10% of a project — deficiencies, follow-up, documentation, the final handoff. You won't let a job sit open because the satisfying part is done.
What We're Not Looking For
- Someone who needs leadership to step in when a client gets difficult.
- Someone who lets the last 10% of a project drag because the exciting part is over.
- Someone who avoids hard conversations with trades, team members, or clients.
- Someone who treats a demanding client as a drain instead of a chance to lead.
- Someone more comfortable doing the work than leading the team that does it.
About Nuvo Construction
We're a residential renovation company based in Edmonton. We build quality projects for clients who value craftsmanship and clear communication. We're growing, which is why this role exists — to bring strong leadership to the field as the scale of our work expands.
You'll join a team that values accountability, completion pressure, and getting things done without unnecessary bureaucracy. We use JobTread for project management and expect our people to leverage technology to work smarter.
Pay: $90,000.00-$120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Education:
- AEC / DEP or Skilled Trade Certificate (preferred)
Experience:
- Site Superintendent: 4 years (required)
- residential clientele: 5 years (required)
Language:
Work Location: In person
