SJ-001Dana Okafor-Reid
Founder & CEO
Ran her first core pour at 24. Still signs off every new tower programme.
About — est. 2009
Since 2009,
only up.
Steeplejack started with eleven people and one 14-storey job in Leslieville. Today we are 640 people in Toronto and Vancouver, with our own core crews, our own climbing rigs and a habit of topping out early.
Northpoint · 2024
Our story
A contractor built around the core.
Our founders came from a formwork subcontractor. They had watched too many towers wait for the crane, the core or the concrete — so they built a company where the core never waits for anyone.
In 2013 we bought our first hydraulic self-climbing rig. In 2017 we opened in Vancouver. In 2021 we started installing factory-finished bathroom pods, and our typical floor cycle dropped from nine days to six.
We still run our own core, formwork and concrete crews. It is the reason we can promise a cycle — and keep it.
- 2009
Founded in Toronto. First job: a 14-storey rental building in Leslieville.
- 2013
First self-climbing core rig. Core cycle cut to three days.
- 2017
Vancouver office opens with the Quarry Lane towers.
- 2021
Bathroom pods on every residential job. Six-day floor cycle.
- 2026
Six towers rising, 1,148 people on site on a good Monday.
People on payroll640
Own core & formwork crews14
Climbing rigs owned6
Repeat clients78%
Leadership
The crew in charge.
Every director has run a tower site. Most still visit one before breakfast.
SJ-001
SJ-002Marek Lindqvist
Chief Operating Officer
Former formwork foreman; owns the six-day cycle and the crews who run it.
SJ-014Priya Raman
Director, Preconstruction
Structural engineer; turns concept drawings into cycle-by-cycle programmes.
SJ-021Tomás Ferreira
Head of Jumpform
Has climbed 31 cores. Designs our rigs and trains every new core crew.
SJ-033Aileen Mercer
Director, Health & Safety
Twenty years on high-rise sites. Holds the stop-work card on every one of ours.
SJ-047Jun Park
General Manager, Vancouver
Opened our west-coast office in 2017 and has topped out nine towers since.
Values
How we work at height.
01
Up, safely
No programme is worth an injury. Every worker can stop the job, no questions asked.
02
Six days, every floor
We plan the cycle before we price it, and we price only what we can repeat.
03
Say it on day one
Problems go on the board the morning they appear — to clients, trades and crews.
04
Leave it better
Cleaner sites, recycled formwork and low-carbon mixes on every slab since 2023.
Rise Academy
We grow our own crews.
Rise Academy is our paid apprenticeship: 18 months on live towers, one day a week in the classroom, and a guaranteed job at the end. Most of our foremen started here.
- Formwork carpentryTables, jumpform, edge protection
- Concrete finishingPlacing, floating, curing
- Rebar & PTFixing, tendons, stressing
- Crane & hoistSignalling, rigging, logistics
Apprentices in 202652
Kept on after graduating91%
Foremen who started here23
Paid from day one100%
Intake opens every March and September. Apply through our careers team →
Safety record
Numbers we publish every month.
Our safety data is audited quarterly and shared with every client. We count near misses as a good thing: 1,214 reports this year means 1,214 hazards fixed before they hurt anyone.
- TRIR (per 200,000 h)
- 0.41
- AIR (per 200,000 h)
- 0.09
- Hours worked, 2026
- 1.86M
- Site safety audits
- 312
412Days LTI-free
Our last lost-time injury was in September 2025. We publish the root-cause report on every incident.
Certified
Audited, every year.
9001
ISO 9001
Quality management — certified since 2012
14001
ISO 14001
Environmental management — since 2016
45001
ISO 45001
Occupational health & safety — since 2019