About the role
Position Summary:
Tacten is looking for a hands-on Rope Access Operations Manager in the Pacific Region. You’ll lead multi-trade crews, oversee project execution, and ensure safe, efficient, and IRATA-compliant operations. This is a fast-paced, high-impact role for a professional eager to take on leadership, broaden their skills, and drive success on high-profile industrial projects.
Position Details:
- Location: Sparwood, BC
- Schedule: Project-based, up to 40 hrs/week, with potential for overtime
- Rate: Up to $59.50/hr, depending on experience and certifications
- Requirements: Candidates must be local to the area or willing to relocate
This is an excellent opportunity to work on challenging projects, lead teams, and grow professionally within a dynamic industrial setting.
Responsibilities:
Daily Responsibilities
- Lead and support welders, pipefitters, and rope access technicians across active job sites.
- Plan, organize, and monitor daily operations, ensuring safety and quality standards are met.
- Conduct site visits, toolbox talks, and review JHAs and permits (rope access, hot work, confined space).
- Coordinate logistics for crew travel, mobilization, and accommodations.
- Track consumables, materials, and equipment to maintain readiness and efficiency.
Weekly Responsibilities
- Perform site walk-throughs and safety inspections.
- Review time tracking, project updates, and three-day lookaheads.
- Support Project Managers with QA/QC documentation and cost tracking.
- Verify compliance of rope access gear and PPE.
- Lead or contribute to weekly safety and progress meetings.
Monthly Responsibilities
- Oversee rope access gear inspections and certification renewals.
- Review budgets and forecasts; track project spend against targets.
- Manage shop inventory and place replenishment orders as needed.
- Submit safety, compliance, and performance reports.
- Conduct performance reviews and coordinate training or recertifications.
Requirements:
- IRATA Level 3 Certification
- Hands-on mechanical and industrial experience in complex environments
- Multi-trade leadership, with experience managing and coordinating diverse teams
- Project management skills, including scheduling, resource allocation, and work execution
- Welding expertise, including inspection, procedures, and fabrication practices
- NDT certifications/experience considered an asset
- Strong work ethic with a focus on high-quality results
- Proven ability to build and maintain positive relationships with clients and team members
- Exceptional safety awareness and commitment to quality standards
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills
- Self-motivated, capable of operating at a high technical and performance level
- Valid driver’s license with a clean abstract
Benefits:
The strength of Tacten lies in its outstanding people. As a rapidly growing, intensely innovative, international public held company, the opportunities to pursue challenging and diverse career development paths are vast.
Complemented by an attractive hours-based benefits program, Tacten offers extensive training, courses and progression opportunities. Working on a variety of projects across industries such as Oil and Gas, Civil, Construction and Engineering, we can ensure your career stays diverse, interesting, and safe!
Join our team at Tacten and embark on a rewarding journey where you will contribute to the company's growth and success while advancing your career. Apply now to be part of our dedicated team of professionals.
Company Overview:
For 20 years, Tacten has been leaders of innovation in delivering an integrated industrial services model based on composite crews, multi-disciplined trades, certified IRATA personnel and customized access optimization programs to industry’s largest clients in the world’s harshest environments.
Our work is critical to the integrity and safety of industrial firms, including petroleum refinery, pipeline, power generation, pulp & paper, mining, pharmaceutical, aerospace and automotive industries. Tacten employs dedicated professionals supporting the mechanical integrity and inspection programs of the world’s largest industrial segments.
Please note we will consider accessibility accommodations to applicants upon request.
The company utilizes AI enabled tools to organize candidate responses. These tools may be used in the screening or assessment of applicants.
About Tacten Industrial Inc
INTEGRATED INDUSTRIAL SERVICES
THE SMARTER WAY. THE EFFICIENT WAY. THE TACTEN WAY.
For 20 years, we have been leaders of innovation in delivering an integrated industrial services model based on composite crews, multi-disciplined trades, certified IRATA personnel and customized access optimization programs to industry's largest clients in the world's harshest environments.
Our highly skilled technicians, combined with our access solutions, and scalable composite crews with multiple certifications, allow us to provide clients with an unparalleled turnkey experience on a wide range of projects.
Access optimization through rope access is one of the pillars of our model. It is one of the competencies that has enabled us to save our customers millions of dollars over the last 20 years.
Being the first, and longest standing, full member of IRATA in North America, as well as the largest rope access service provider in North America, affords us a significant amount of experiential knowledge that has vast benefits to our clients.
Our composite crews are assembled from a large pool of employees that are specialists within their disciplines. Teams are comprised based on the specific expertise required for each project. Through intimate working relationships with our customers, we participate in execution design during the planning process in order to ensure optimum efficiency.
We have capabilities that extend across all industry segments, but with specific capabilities in oil and gas, petrochemical refining, marine, pulp and paper, power generation and civil infrastructure.
Our core service offering includes electrical, welding/fabrication, pipe-fitting, insulation, asbestos abatement, hoisting/rigging, painting and coating, inspection, shutdown/turn around support, removal of equipment or hazards, confined space (including rescue service), furnace and burner de-slags, nuts and bolts removal/replacement, and class surveys.
About the role
Position Summary:
Tacten is looking for a hands-on Rope Access Operations Manager in the Pacific Region. You’ll lead multi-trade crews, oversee project execution, and ensure safe, efficient, and IRATA-compliant operations. This is a fast-paced, high-impact role for a professional eager to take on leadership, broaden their skills, and drive success on high-profile industrial projects.
Position Details:
- Location: Sparwood, BC
- Schedule: Project-based, up to 40 hrs/week, with potential for overtime
- Rate: Up to $59.50/hr, depending on experience and certifications
- Requirements: Candidates must be local to the area or willing to relocate
This is an excellent opportunity to work on challenging projects, lead teams, and grow professionally within a dynamic industrial setting.
Responsibilities:
Daily Responsibilities
- Lead and support welders, pipefitters, and rope access technicians across active job sites.
- Plan, organize, and monitor daily operations, ensuring safety and quality standards are met.
- Conduct site visits, toolbox talks, and review JHAs and permits (rope access, hot work, confined space).
- Coordinate logistics for crew travel, mobilization, and accommodations.
- Track consumables, materials, and equipment to maintain readiness and efficiency.
Weekly Responsibilities
- Perform site walk-throughs and safety inspections.
- Review time tracking, project updates, and three-day lookaheads.
- Support Project Managers with QA/QC documentation and cost tracking.
- Verify compliance of rope access gear and PPE.
- Lead or contribute to weekly safety and progress meetings.
Monthly Responsibilities
- Oversee rope access gear inspections and certification renewals.
- Review budgets and forecasts; track project spend against targets.
- Manage shop inventory and place replenishment orders as needed.
- Submit safety, compliance, and performance reports.
- Conduct performance reviews and coordinate training or recertifications.
Requirements:
- IRATA Level 3 Certification
- Hands-on mechanical and industrial experience in complex environments
- Multi-trade leadership, with experience managing and coordinating diverse teams
- Project management skills, including scheduling, resource allocation, and work execution
- Welding expertise, including inspection, procedures, and fabrication practices
- NDT certifications/experience considered an asset
- Strong work ethic with a focus on high-quality results
- Proven ability to build and maintain positive relationships with clients and team members
- Exceptional safety awareness and commitment to quality standards
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills
- Self-motivated, capable of operating at a high technical and performance level
- Valid driver’s license with a clean abstract
Benefits:
The strength of Tacten lies in its outstanding people. As a rapidly growing, intensely innovative, international public held company, the opportunities to pursue challenging and diverse career development paths are vast.
Complemented by an attractive hours-based benefits program, Tacten offers extensive training, courses and progression opportunities. Working on a variety of projects across industries such as Oil and Gas, Civil, Construction and Engineering, we can ensure your career stays diverse, interesting, and safe!
Join our team at Tacten and embark on a rewarding journey where you will contribute to the company's growth and success while advancing your career. Apply now to be part of our dedicated team of professionals.
Company Overview:
For 20 years, Tacten has been leaders of innovation in delivering an integrated industrial services model based on composite crews, multi-disciplined trades, certified IRATA personnel and customized access optimization programs to industry’s largest clients in the world’s harshest environments.
Our work is critical to the integrity and safety of industrial firms, including petroleum refinery, pipeline, power generation, pulp & paper, mining, pharmaceutical, aerospace and automotive industries. Tacten employs dedicated professionals supporting the mechanical integrity and inspection programs of the world’s largest industrial segments.
Please note we will consider accessibility accommodations to applicants upon request.
The company utilizes AI enabled tools to organize candidate responses. These tools may be used in the screening or assessment of applicants.
About Tacten Industrial Inc
INTEGRATED INDUSTRIAL SERVICES
THE SMARTER WAY. THE EFFICIENT WAY. THE TACTEN WAY.
For 20 years, we have been leaders of innovation in delivering an integrated industrial services model based on composite crews, multi-disciplined trades, certified IRATA personnel and customized access optimization programs to industry's largest clients in the world's harshest environments.
Our highly skilled technicians, combined with our access solutions, and scalable composite crews with multiple certifications, allow us to provide clients with an unparalleled turnkey experience on a wide range of projects.
Access optimization through rope access is one of the pillars of our model. It is one of the competencies that has enabled us to save our customers millions of dollars over the last 20 years.
Being the first, and longest standing, full member of IRATA in North America, as well as the largest rope access service provider in North America, affords us a significant amount of experiential knowledge that has vast benefits to our clients.
Our composite crews are assembled from a large pool of employees that are specialists within their disciplines. Teams are comprised based on the specific expertise required for each project. Through intimate working relationships with our customers, we participate in execution design during the planning process in order to ensure optimum efficiency.
We have capabilities that extend across all industry segments, but with specific capabilities in oil and gas, petrochemical refining, marine, pulp and paper, power generation and civil infrastructure.
Our core service offering includes electrical, welding/fabrication, pipe-fitting, insulation, asbestos abatement, hoisting/rigging, painting and coating, inspection, shutdown/turn around support, removal of equipment or hazards, confined space (including rescue service), furnace and burner de-slags, nuts and bolts removal/replacement, and class surveys.