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DEVELOPMENT / CONSTRUCTION / PROJECT MANAGEMENT SEM Shift Engineer VIE H/F-106830 2769 Toronto, Ontario International assignment contract Beginner

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SEM Shift Engineer VIE H/F F/H

31/01/2025

Key Responsibilities:
Safety Compliance:
- Enforce strict adherence to safety protocols, ensuring all site activities comply with local and industry regulations.
- Conduct daily safety inspections, identifying potential hazards, and implementing preventive measures.
- Lead safety briefings and toolbox talks at the beginning of each shift, emphasizing safety in all operations.

Quality Assurance:
- Oversee the quality of SEM tunnel excavation, ensuring compliance with design specifications and project standards.
- Conduct regular inspections of tunnel profiles to ensure they meet the required tolerances and geometrical accuracy.
- Supervise the installation of shotcrete, ensuring it meets specified thickness, strength, and coverage criteria.

Technical Supervision:
- Monitor and coordinate the activities of the SEM crew during each shift, ensuring proper sequence and technique are followed.
- Monitor and adjust excavation parameters as needed, based on ground conditions and project requirements.
- Ensure that all installed supports, including shotcrete, anchors, and lining, are correctly placed and meet design requirements.

Reporting and Documentation:
- Prepare daily shift reports, documenting progress, safety incidents, and quality control measures.
- Complete all required daily quality documentation, including Inspection and Test Plans (ITP), production logs, shotcrete testing, concrete testing, rockbolt testing reports, and calibration records for on-site testing equipment.
- Prepare all necessary documents for the daily Permit to Tunnel meeting.
- Generate weekly production reports and track material usage, placing orders as required to meet design specifications and production schedules.
- Track weekly production and costs, supporting end-of-month processes, including accruals, cost summaries, and short-term production forecasts.
- Prepare daily excavation plans, distribute them to the site crew, explain them thoroughly, and attend all shift handover meetings.

Inspections and Monitoring:
- Conduct regular inspections of the tunnel face and surrounding ground conditions to identify potential risks or deviations.
- Continuously monitor the shotcrete application process, ensuring quality and uniformity.
- Inspect the final tunnel profile to ensure compliance with project specifications and correct any deviations promptly.

Coordination and Communication:
- Collaborate with other shift engineers, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure smooth coordination of tunneling operations.
- Participate in shift handovers, ensuring that all critical information is communicated clearly to the incoming team.
- Engage with the design team and other engineering staff to resolve technical challenges encountered during excavation.


Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 1 years of experience in tunneling, with specific expertise in the Sequential Excavation Method (SEM).
- Proven experience in conducting detailed inspections, preparing shift and profile reports, monitoring shotcrete applications, and handling production and cost tracking.
- Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.
- Knowledge of relevant safety regulations and best practices in tunnel construction.
- Proficiency in using engineering software and tools for documentation, reporting, and quality control.


Why us?

Joining Vinci Construction Grands Projets as a VIE means becoming part of a global leader in construction and contributing to large-scale, innovative, and complex projects (tunnels, bridges, dams, urban infrastructure). This experience allows you to develop technical and managerial skills in a demanding environment while benefiting from structured support and career growth opportunities within the group. Immersed in an international setting, the VIE program provides valuable cultural exposure and enhances adaptability—key assets for a successful career in construction and engineering.

Entity

As part of a lineage of 100-year-old companies whose names are associated with impressive achievements worldwide, VINCI Construction Grands Projets possesses end-to-end expertise in the creation of complex infrastructure. Throughout the world, VINCI Construction Grands Projets designs and builds major civil engineering structures (tunnels, bridges, dams, liquefied natural gas storage tanks, road and rail infrastructure) and buildings (skyscrapers, shopping centres, hotels, major industrial facilities, nuclear power plants, etc.). As a complement to the company's high level of expertise, its consummate engineering skills, and expert project management abilities, VINCI Construction Grands Projets practises a policy of involvement at the local level wherever it operates, partnering with local firms and companies, enabling it to deploy wide-ranging yet modular solutions. These solutions, including technical assistance, turnkey projects, and maintenance programs, respond to the many different needs of a broad range of private- and public-sector clients.

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