Superintendent - Job Description
The Superintendent is responsible for overseeing and managing all day-to-day job site activities, site conditions, safety and quality standards, compliance with scope, and effective management of trade partners.
Responsibilities
- Oversee, manage, and document all day-to-day job site activities including OSHA safety compliance
- Direct field personnel according to the project plan and The Company's supervisory principles
- Communicate issues, events, performance, and progress daily to the Project Manager
- Report any problems promptly to the Project Manager to facilitate the most cost-effective solutions
- Establish effective working relationships with clients, consultants, authorities having jurisdiction and The Company team members
- Request advice and assistance from the General Superintendent on matters pertaining to materials, sequencing, scheduling and personnel
Project Start-Up/Turnover Meeting:
- Identify pre-mobilization activities in conjunction with the Project Executive, General Superintendent, and the Project Manager
- Develop start-up schedule with Project Manager and send it to the Project Executive and General Superintendent for review
Scheduling:
-Assist in formulating and implementing construction schedules in the field
- Collaborate with preconstruction and project management in establishing and implementing the Project Schedule based on the project contracts and subcontractor input, considering any elements that might impact the schedule
- Maintain the schedule and ensure that work performed is consistent with the contract and will meet or exceed client expectations
- Update Project Schedule monthly
- Provide progress report with the three-week look ahead of schedule to the Project Manager and the field staff
Safety:
- Ensure that all subcontractors participate in a safety pre-construction meeting prior to starting work on the project with the project team and safety representative
- Ensure that all subcontractors have a full set of Safety Data Sheets (SDS) on the project, as well as their site specific safety plan and current insurance certificate or OCIP/CCIP enrollment ID
- Review the project daily to ensure that all activities are being performed in accordance with all OSHA and governing requirements and the project site specific safety plan and cooperate with safety representatives on all safety audits
- Review safety reports and injury data to assess safety performance on assigned projects
- Ensure project(s) are budgeted & staffed appropriately to support safety programs
- Communicate clear expectations for safety to project teams
- Adhere to all The Company's Safety program requirements
Quality Management:
- Ensure that all pertinent benchmarks for the project are established and inserted into the - baseline schedule
- Ensure that all appropriate individuals adhere to The Company's Quality Standards
- Ensure that ALL initial mock-ups and baseline work scopes are signed off and utilized as the Quality Benchmark throughout the life of the project
- Ensure that the inspections are approved, documented, and communicated to the project team
Subcontractor and Site Management throughout the Project:
- Manage site pre-construction including pre-construction survey, job site utilization and staging plans
- Mobilize the field office and maintains the job site to The Company standards
- Organize documentation of the job site for easy access and review
- Manage subcontractor performance to quality and ethical standards
- Work with PM to identify and resolve personnel issues and construction process revisions
- Manage all phases of the construction process including documenting and reporting site activities and progress, manage excavations and assist with Job Site Utilization Plan
Meeting Management:
- Attend project turnover, mobilization, and project coordination meetings
- Attend/chair safety pre-construction meetings
- Attend/chair weekly foreman and safety meetings
- Attend/chair monthly schedule review meetings
- Attend closeout meetings
- Attend owner meetings
- Attend/chair subcontractor meetings and any others necessary to monitor and manage the project
Administrative Management:
- Complete and implement construction office checklists including emergency phone lists
- Complete daily reports and maintains logs of key activities, files, and shop drawings
- Manage the quality and condition of all material deliveries
- Maintain required safety reporting and all other required files to The Company's standards
- Insure that as-built working drawings are maintained as well as the current drawing log and revision log, communicating this to the subcontractors
Project Closeout:
- Manage subcontractor closeout, transfer of utilities, owner training, work list and punch list
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in applicable discipline and experience relative to project size/scope and/or
- 6+ years of experience in related construction fields
- The ability to manage and embrace change. Respond and adapt to new processes and new ways of looking at old problems
- Excellent team development skills and leadership abilities
- Strong ability to partner with the Project Manager and staff
- Committed to excellence
- Capable of dealing with ambiguity and tight work oversight
- Able to constantly multi-task and handle competing priorities between The Company's business needs and organizational issues while maintaining excellent customer relations
- Must possess business judgment to negotiate the critical balance between budget and construction processes
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to act confidently and decisively
- Candidate must possess The Company's Core Values: Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring
Working Conditions
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk; and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level. Job site walking.
EEO Statement
The Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran, gender identity, age or any other status protected by law. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment. The Company will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination toward, or harassment of, applicants or employees by anyone at The Company, or anyone working on behalf of The Company.
