Horizon Construction Workforce

"I Never realized staffing a job site could be this easy."

Superior Quality

Horizon Construction Workforce, takes the work out of your workforce by providing skilled, experienced and reliable long-term employees, tailored specifically to meet your job site needs. Established in 1993, we have had the privilege to grow alongside our clients over the years and have adapted to an ever-evolving industry along with them.

Superior Support

We invest in our employees to ensure they are well supported, properly trained and their certifications remain current. We encourage teams that work well together to remain intact on future phases and projects as requested.

Superior Results

This stability has allowed us to build long term relationships across the lower mainland, which ensures you get the right person or team of people for the right job regardless of your location or current industry cycle.

How to Get Started

Already working with Horizon? Help speed things up and fill out our Requisition Form and we’ll get back to you quickly with options and availability.

New clients, contact us and we’ll meet at your site to arrange the help you need and confirm all the details. New customers should complete the credit application (Horizon Credit Application)

Head Office 604-943-1434 or hello@horizonworkforce.com or reach our Sales Manager directly at 403-789-4564

Horizon as your workforce

Do you want to lower your overall cost of employees?  Do you want to limit and lower your risk and liability exposure? Do you want to save time and streamline your processes?  Talk to Horizon today about how we can provide you the custom workforce to meet your needs!

 

Horizon Workforce provides site crews for general contractors and developers who look for a stable and reliable workforce in a temporary construction environment.  Our mark ups are as low as possible, by leveraging our economies of scale and keeping overhead down. Since 1993, we have been able to attract and keep quality personnel by offering steady work, fair wages, Medical Plans, extended health and dental, and industry training. Our employees are conscientious, reliable, and skilled. Our charge out rate includes the following:

 

•Canada Pension Plan. Group retirement and savings plan 
•Vacation Pay & Statutory Holidays. Sick Pay (if applicable)
•Employment Insurance
•Extended Health and Dental Plan
•Workers Compensation Board Premiums
•Medical Plan and Provincial Health Tax (if applicable)

 

*Please be aware that premiums may apply for items such as excessive travel, shift differential, multiple accreditation’s, lead roles, and specialty skills. Rates are negotiable and discounts available with volume. 

 

Horizon works closely with our clients to ensure they have the right blend of skill and experience, so their job sites have the right talent when they need it.  Horizon Carpenters provide their own tools, and specialize in deficiencies, achieving tens of thousands of sign-offs over the years. Horizon is a C.O.R. (WorksafeBC Certificate of Recognition) certified company.

Invoices are issued every two weeks and payable 15 days from the date of invoice. Overtime is charged and paid as required by the Employment Standards Act.

Types of Labour available with Horizon Workforce

Have a range of skills, including experience with drywall repairs, carpentry, silicone caulking, touch up of painting and decorating, and will pride themselves on an eye for detail.

Framing carpenters’ erect walls, floors, and roofs for commercial, residential, and industrial buildings and other structures. Framing carpenters also install doors, windows, and hardware for construction projects

This position provides occupational first aid coverage, treats injured patients, maintains and operates first aid rooms and equipment, and performs other related record keeping functions associated with occupational first aid.

Construction Safety Officer ensures that construction workers are following established policies and safety regulations. A construction safety officer may take on additional roles and responsibilities, but their primary job is to help create safer construction sites

A construction laborer or construction worker does physical labor on construction sites. They may prepare sites by cleaning them, loading or unloading materials and removing hazards. A general laborer may also run some types of equipment or put together and take apart scaffolding and other temporary structures.

The Skid Steer Operator is responsible for the safe operation of a skid steer during project construction. skid-steer loader or skid steer is a small, rigid-frame, engine-powered machine with lift arms used to attach a wide variety of labor-saving tools or attachments.

Lead carpenters are known as craftsmen with a high degree of experience and extensive skills. They have the ability in managing job sites with trade contractors and multiple employees. Lead carpenters generally involve all aspects of construction work using different wooden materials.

Provide a variety of highly skilled repair and refinish functions, some of which include; damage analysis, replacing colour, filing damage, grain replacement, spot finish, sheen adjustment, scratch removal and finish care. Very knowledgeable on products needed for each situation.

A hoist operator, sometimes called an exterior manlift operator, runs the equipment that controls the movement of platforms that carry people and equipment from floor to floor on work sites.

Perform a variety of semi-skilled and skilled work in the operation of light, medium and heavy equipment and trucks; Responsible for understanding and following all operating policy and procedures while operating equipment. safety regulations. A construction safety officer may take on additional roles and responsibilities, but their primary job is to help create safer construction sites

Provide a variety of functions throughout a project but are often focused on the final repairs and deficiencies required before turnover. They have a strong understanding of the materials and products needed for each situation.

Responsible for Directing drivers, pedestrians, and workers to safe routes around road construction sites. Able to assist and review traffic management plans and keep the flow of traffic moving from site specifications