Adam Chow
Superintendant
Grand Falls Windsor,Newfoundland and Labrador
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Black and McDonald
08.2024 - 12.2025
- Manage projects within the sustaining engineering group
- Accountable for the budget and schedule
- Develop and manage Scopes of work from gates
- Review and authorize invoicing from the contractor
- Review schedule to align with operations maintenance outage
- Source contracts from engineering to procurement to construction
- Reporting variances to scheduled Engineering, Procurement and Contractor activities
- Flag construction areas prior to implementation of substandard procedures.
- Compile and collate information to support Construction Stewardship Reporting and Major Projects Month End Reporting
- Ensures upward reporting of project incidents within defined time periods.
- Participation as required in project close-out activities
- Complete monthly Safety Activity Calendar.
Project Coordinator
IOC RIO TINTO
04.2018 - 08.2024
- Manage projects within the sustaining engineering group
- Accountable for the budget and schedule
- Develop and manage Scopes of work from gates
- Review and authorize invoicing from the contractor
- Review schedule to align with operations maintenance outage
- Source contracts from engineering to procurement to construction
- Reporting variances to scheduled Engineering, Procurement and Contractor activities
- Flag construction areas prior to implementation of substandard procedures.
- Compile and collate information to support Construction Stewardship Reporting and Major Projects Month End Reporting
- Ensures upward reporting of project incidents within defined time periods.
- Participation as required in project close-out activities
- Complete monthly Safety Activity Calendar.
- Lab City mine site
Civil structural superintendent
Victoria Gold Corporation
12.2017 - 04.2018
- Oversee the installation and commissioning of the ADR building
- Oversee the installation and commissioning of the overland conveyor
- Oversee the installation of the tertiary crusher and cone crusher
- Oversee and audit invoicing from the contractor
- Lead safety talks with the contractors
- Implement safety programs onto the Yukon site
- Oversee the site construction about civil and structural
- Dublin gulch gold mine
Mechanical Coordinator/Construction Coordinator
Suncor Energy
03.2009 - 12.2017
- Familiar with the applicable project Construction procedural library and implements project specific manuals and procedures.
- Organizes and holds Lessons Learned sessions to identify information sharing opportunities (both within projects and across projects).
- Contributes to schedule development in conjunction with construction and turn-over planners.
- Monitoring construction execution activities for compliance to Operations issued permits.
- Monitoring project Engineering, Procurement and Contractor activities and requirements against schedules.
- Ensuring installations meet Suncor's project specifications and Quality standards.
- Monitoring contractor schedule, man-hours, costs and progress quantities in partnership with Project Controls representatives.
- Participate in Contractor Progress Update meetings.
- Monitor the CWP scope in line with the Contractors IWP release plan.
- Examine contractor submitted Safe Work Execution Plans and evaluates them for thoroughness and appropriateness for the defined scopes of work.
- Evaluates contractor invoices and progress reports for accuracy and reports findings back to Construction Management.
- Evaluates contractor Change Management documents for validity against contracted scopes, and for accuracy in pricing.
- Reviews, and analyses submitted Lessons Learned to identify high value, technical lessons that should be added to technical or non-technical documents.
- Participates in project Risk Reviews and identifies and evaluates risk in project activities.
- Participates in periodic Contractor Performance Evaluations as defined in Supply Chain requirements.
- Review and understand the WFP Implementation Plan.
- Assist the Project Management team to ensure project objectives, policies, procedures, and performance standards are in accordance with company policy and contract specifications are met.
- Assist with overall project performance, including the management of costs, schedule, qualities, and overall project status, while maintaining excellent relationships with traders, subcontractors, and clients.
- Act on any non-conformance that appears in the project and implement corrective action.
- Actively drive results with respect to safety, quality, budget and schedule.
- Liaise with Coordinators from other disciplines including but not limited to (mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, insulators and scaffolders).
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and MS Project; experience with scheduling software-Primavera.
- Participates in Contract Kick-off meetings.
- Provides technical support to Contractors and the Construction Management Team in project matters specific to their discipline or expertise.
- Provides input to Management of Change documents.
- Supports Field Engineering in responding to Requests for Information (RFIs).
- Recommend changes to technical standards and procedures and identify the best new practices from lessons learned.
- Ensured accurate and timely communication with project personnel regarding the introduction of commodities.
- Reporting variances to scheduled Engineering, Procurement and Contractor activities.
- Flag construction areas prior to implementation of substandard procedures.
- Compile and collate information to support Construction Stewardship Reporting and Major Projects Month End Reporting.
- Upward reporting of project incidents within defined time periods.
- Participation in required project close-out activities.
- Use of the Construction Work Record tool to document the day-to-day journal entries.
- Secondary Extraction
Structural Consultant
Black Hack Eng.
Labrador City, NL
09.2009 - 02.2010
- Advisement role - management of installation
- Completed review of bid package.
- Determined any Construction obstacles in the FEED (Front End Eng. Design) process.
- CWP's review to ensure scheduled work met logic.
- Completed project submittals, contract set-up and administration.
- Liaised with external subcontractors.
- Management of RFI's (Request for Information) and change orders.
- Attended meetings to discuss ongoing and future projects and cost/revenue projections.
- Material, subcontractor and equipment requirements.
- Accountable for developing FIWP procedures during FEED or early in detailed design.
- Coordinated with the Project Construction Management Team to provide workface construction knowledge to project schedulers, engineers, superintendents, and management.
- Accountable for ensuring that the Project Construction Management Team had a thorough understanding of the daily and weekly activities required to meet production goals.
- Determined and coordinated resource requirements.
- Acted as a liaison between project controls and workforce supervision.
- Structural Consultant, hopper installation
Timeline
Project Manager
Black and McDonald
08.2024 - 12.2025
Project Coordinator
IOC RIO TINTO
04.2018 - 08.2024
Civil structural superintendent
Victoria Gold Corporation
12.2017 - 04.2018
Structural Consultant
Black Hack Eng.
09.2009 - 02.2010
Mechanical Coordinator/Construction Coordinator
Suncor Energy
03.2009 - 12.2017