PROFESSIONAL
Describe your current job.
I am the senior project manager and estimator at Formula
Contractors. Some of my areas of responsibility include:
• Providing leadership and general direction to project
managers, superintendents and supervisors;
• Scheduling and completing construction projects;
• Providing project estimates, as well as managing projects
and purchasing construction materials as required;
• Providing direction to ensure that Formula projects are
completed in a standardized manner and according to the
company’s policies and procedures;
• Developing construction and sales opportunities;
• Completing project close-out packages:
• Establishing company and project resourcing priorities
and facilitating communication between clients
and customers, senior management, project managers,
superintendents, supervisors and managers
NETWORKING CORNER
Meet a Piling Professional
PHIL TOMA, FORMULA CONTRACTORS
How did you get to where you are now?
I attended university and studied forestry. I was employed in
the forest sector for 15 years. In the later part of my forestry
career, I was mostly involved with timber harvesting, road
construction, bridge construction and log yard activities.
Formula provided bridge construction activities in some
of the areas I was involved in operationally with forestry. I
decided it was time to make a career change and the principal
of Formula and I struck up a conversation in 2005. I have
been with Formula Contractors going on 12 years.
What do you love about your job?
The diversity in what Formula builds and the geographical
areas in which we work keep day-to-day operations very
interesting. We work as far east as Manitoba and as far north
as Tuktoyuktuk, N.W.T.
PHOTO COURTESY OF DAN HOMENIUK
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