Industrial Construction Manager

Anaergia

Anaergia

Carlsbad, CA, USA
Posted on Jul 12, 2025

About Us:

Anaergia (TSX: ANRG) is a global leader in offering sustainable solutions to produce clean energy and the conversion of waste streams to resources. Through a proven portfolio of proprietary technological solutions, Anaergia maximizes the generation of renewable energy, diversion of waste from landfills, and reduction of greenhouse gases for customers across the municipal, industrial, commercial, and agricultural sectors. Headquartered in Burlington, ON, and through its multiple subsidiaries across North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, Anaergia is trusted at more than 1,600 installations globally.


Job Overview:

Be Anaergia’s main point of contact on site with the customer, subcontractors, and Anaergia personnel. Consistently manage the assigned jobs by managing all the Site Activity from the site
establishment until the handover to the commissioning team, meeting, and possibly improving timing and costing. This role will be site-based in the US, with the primary location in Carlsbad, CA.

Job Responsibilities:

Goals

  • Daily morning site meetings to be held with all subcontractors, vendors,
    and Anaergia personnel to ensure that planning, coordination, and cooperation between these subcontractors and vendors are achieved
  • Daily morning feedback discussions with the client on activities completed and planned for the day, as well as any cooperation needed from the client.
  • Coordinate with the Project Manager to ensure that the project timelines, scope, and budget are being adhered to as per the contract.
  • Ensure the application meets the highest safety standards in the erection and start-up phase, as well as full compliance with the safety rules.
  • Maintain and improve the project budget
  • Maintain and improve the job schedule
  • Achieve the Customer Satisfaction rate
  • Fulfill the agreed daily reporting with reliable data and within the requested deadline.
  • Regarding the erection, provide risk analysis, develop, and manage a mitigation plan.
  • Identify an opportunity to increase revenues and GM, to be pursued in cooperation with the P.M
  • Ensure the consistent "hand-over" to the Customer, deliver an effective, safe, and reliable "product"

Tasks, Authority, and Liability

  • Manage all the activities from the site establishment until the handover to the end user
  • Read, analyze, and understand the contract, meeting Anaergia's obligations
  • Estimate, develop, and agree on the job schedule and budget with the PMs
  • Manage, meet, and possibly improve the budget and the timing
  • Monitor and plan the delivery of supplies and services (expediting & logistics) unless it is not covered by the supply chain
  • Manage directly and/or via contractors the Quality Assurance / Quality Control
  • Coordinate all resources involved in site activities, both internal and external (outsourcers/sub-contractors), either through the updating and distributing of a detailed schedule and/or setting regular site meetings
  • Early identification of project risks and early adoption of appropriate countermeasures
  • Within the limits of site-related matters (erection and start-up) and with respect to the agreed project communication plan, manage the relationship with the Customer’s project leader
  • Manage relationship with vendor and sub-contractor for what is concerning technical issues and organization of tasks, including technical correspondence, leaving to the PM the management of contract-related communication
  • Ensure the plant and all the supplies in general, comply with the applicable codes and regulations
  • Support the tests of components
  • Collect and deliver to the PE the whole set of documents with red mark-up to enable the production of the “as-built” release
  • Feedback to the office-based team (PE/EE&AUT/DM/PM/AE) with lessons learnt for continuous improvement
  • Create, update, and deliver the reporting as per the agreed-upon reporting plan.

The CM/SM is authorized to:

  • Sign correspondence to customers and vendors within the limits agreed (communication plan)
  • Instruct the sub-contractor for the extra-order task and request the PO regularization within the limits of Anaergia's scope of supply and within the limits of the allowed and agreed field budget
  • Manage T&L expenses within the project-related assigned budget

Safety and Quality-related responsibilities

The CM/SM is responsible for the rigorous application of the company rules regarding
the project development, the accuracy of reported data, and the respect of the contractual/agreed deadlines.

Compliance with Safety is priority one for Anaergia.


The erection and start-up represent two of the most critical phases with respect to the safety risks. The Industrial CM/SM is called to respect all general and project-specific safety rules, applying and ensuring their application to all. It is also CM’s/SM’s responsibility to ensure that all the people involved and engaged in site activities are adequately trained regarding the activity they are called to perform. The Industrial CM/SM is responsible for notifying all misses and eventually claiming to stop the activity in case of severe negligence/risks.

Competencies/Qualifications:

Education

Holds a technical diploma in one of the following fields: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent; five years of experience in construction management will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Experience

Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Construction/Site manager in the Industrial Plant construction.

Technical/Special Competencies

  • Deeply understands and can manage contracts for supplying complex plants
  • Is fully skilled in reading and understanding technical drawings, documents, and specifications
  • Is knowledgeable in all the disciplines involved with the erection (civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumental, etc.)
  • Is knowledgeable in construction codes and regulations
  • Is knowledgeable in the quality control of all supplies
  • Experienced in training resources on safety and technical matters
  • Is experienced in managing relationships with Customers
  • Is experienced in leading and coordinating the assigned resources
  • Is knowledgeable in “site” project administration
  • It is used to manage detailed job schedules
  • Some experience in purchasing
  • Fluent in English

Cross-functional competencies

Act with professionalism and with the right “sense of priority”, the CM/SM must understand how activities affect other functions as well as how other functions can influence either positively or negatively the achievement of the goals.

Competences include, but are not limited to:

  • Strong leadership based on technical competencies to gain the discipline and respect from the managed resources
  • Some knowledge of “company management” and how the projects’ results, either forecasted and actual, do affect overall company management with reference to structural growth, and other investments
  • Have some biogas-specific competences.

Hierarchy

The CM/SM reports into the Director of Operations at an organizational level, has a wide autonomy with organizing field activity, but reports into the PM for:

  • Consistency of the delivered scope of supply
  • Compliance with the project budget
  • Compliance with the job schedule

For additional information on Anaergia, please visit www.anaergia.com. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Anaergia provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Anaergia will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.