Site Manager/Supervisor
Leading Sites to
Successful Outcomes
Site Managers / Supervisors lead the orchestration of construction, overseeing tasks, resources, and teams. Employ your leadership acumen to oversee tasks, resources, and teams, guiding projects to successful outcomes and translating blueprints into thriving realities.
Alternative Titles: Construction Supervisor, Site Leader, Project Coordinator
Top 5 courses for Site Managers/Supervisors
We get it – training can be hard to commit to when you're in the middle of a big project or busy construction season. These are our top 5 courses for you. Want to see the full suite of courses that apply to you? Keep scrolling to check out the full list.
Business Ethics in Home Building
Develop an understanding of ethical behaviour and how it relates to your workplace and on the site.
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Communication and Negotiation
Learn how to manage difficult conversations and create inclusive and interest-based resolutions used by experienced negotiators across all industries.
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Land Development Fundamentals
Delve into the role and impact of land development on the new home construction industry, particularly in Alberta's single-family home marketplace.
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Leadership and Management Development
Participants will enhance their leadership and management skills through an engaging learning experience that will empower them with the confidence and environment to generate ideas, solve problems and make decisions.
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Building Codes (National Building Code 2019 Alberta Edition)
Learn how to interpret and apply current national and Alberta building codes to housing construction projects.
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Develop an understanding of ethical behaviour and how it relates to your workplace and on the site. Learn strategies to identify and effectively resolve ethical issues while adhering to your personal and corporate values and codes of conduct.
Learn how to manage difficult conversations and create inclusive and interest-based resolutions used by experienced negotiators across all industries. In this course, you will successfully develop the necessary communication strategies to identify barriers, adapt to navigating dirty tricks introduced in a negotiation, and differentiate between judging, assuming and describing statements.
Delve into the role and impact of land development on the new home construction industry, particularly in Alberta’s single-family home marketplace. You’ll explore key topics at each stage in the land development process: Research and Acquisition; Planning, Design and Approvals; Sales and Marketing; and Construction; Completion. While the specifics of land development differ from one municipality to another, the course focuses on the land development fundamentals that tend to remain consistent across different jurisdictions.
Participants will enhance their leadership and management skills through an engaging learning experience that will empower them with the confidence and environment to generate ideas, solve problems and make decisions. This workshop will additionally provide time for reflection, discussion, and an ongoing application of concepts.
Learn how to interpret and apply current national and Alberta building codes to housing construction projects. You’ll explore related standards and legislative authorities as well as administration and municipal inspection processes.
Explore the relationships between various phases of construction, examine standard documents and processes that govern construction practices, and develop a sound understanding of key considerations at each stage. You’ll review processes, materials, systems, and methods used in constructing residential homes and touches on major aspects of managing the residential construction process, including pre-construction preparation, professionalism, safety, project management, administration, documentation, and construction knowledge.
Part one of this course focuses on the Construction Performance Guide for New Home Warranty in Alberta and how to utilize it to evaluate warranty claims. Participants will develop the knowledge and essential skills required to interpret and apply workmanship and material standards related to warranty coverage. Participants will also explore the importance of customer service and how to address and resolve issues effectively.
Explore new energy codes, including effective insulation, prescriptive based requirements, simple trade off, performance-based requirements, continuous insulation, air tightness, service water (DHW), and unintended consequences of energy.
The goals for the Pan-Canadian Framework will affect homebuilders and homeowners. This course will help you understand how the upcoming code changes will challenge the way we plan and build our houses. Learn about energy efficiency, airtightness testing, and affordable approaches to building high-performance homes.
Learn how to identify soil conditions that necessitate changes to a home construction project plan to avoid potentially disastrous and expensive issues. Expand your understanding of developer reports, logs, and assessments to make informed discussions with geotechnical engineers and prepare you to implement the appropriate construction techniques.
Explore building science and its importance in constructing effective building envelopes and building durable homes. This course was reflects new codes and current best practices while providing additional clarification to key concepts and applications.
Moisture control is a critical part of building construction because moisture problems create significant problems that homebuilders have to deal with. However, always keeping a building envelope completely dry and in all circumstances is unrealistic. This course focuses on explaining moisture and why it’s so important to control it, how it enters a building, how it accumulates, and how it is removed. Remember, moisture control is a critical part of the construction process, and it is up to you to ensure you understand the concepts that make moisture control possible.
Learn advanced problem-solving techniques and apply them to residential construction case studies. Case studies are related to issues that can develop during the construction process which impact Foundations, Framing, Exteriors, Interiors.
Lead construction projects with confidence. Explore fundamental project management concepts and best practices, how to develop strategies for scheduling, critical paths, contingencies, logistics and lead times, human resources, safety, administration, contracts, regulations, budgeting and cost control, quality control, and client relations.
Develop an appreciation for the value of exceptional service. You’ll learn how to set, improve, and sustain customer value in the organization, develop powerful techniques for understanding customer perspectives, and creating long-term business relationships.
This course recognizes the universal importance and impact of the subject matter of customer service. In doing so, it focuses on our industry, the New Home Construction Industry, and more specifically, it does so from the homeowner’s perspective with respect to customer service expectations at each major stage of the new home building process. Its objective is to educate home builders on the essential business tool that is customer service, and to hone and strengthen this skill so that it will result in greater business success.
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