Construction Superintendent

Overview

Lead construction projects, manage schedule, safety, and subcontractors.

Key Responsibilities

• schedule management
• document control
• safety inspections
• quality control
• progress reporting
• subcontractor management

Tasks

This position is responsible to lead one or more construction projects and for the management of the overall planning, scheduling, code compliance, cost tracking, safety, and completion of these projects. The Superintendent is responsible for directing and mentoring subcontractors and other on-site field staff. The position requires business management acumen and must demonstrate strong leadership, organizational and time management skills, as well as have strong communication and team building skills. -Prepare the daily construction reports in a thorough and timely manner and maintain a written daily log of visitors, job actions performed, materials expended, and problems resolved on the job site. -Prepare and attend the weekly subcontractor meetings. Assist in maintaining the minutes of these meetings, and ensure they are recorded and distributed. -Understand and uphold the site safety plan. -Attend weekly meetings with the project team for purposes of updates on the status of the field work and communication of any issues requiring the input or action of others on the project team, and for notification to the project team of issues that may be of importance or interest to them. -Communicate any issues requiring additional information from designers and consultants in a timely fashion to the project manager for issuance of RFI’s. -Understand and ensure risk controls are properly established and maintained. -Perform inspections or schedule inspectors to meet the varying safety and compliance regulations of each job location. -Assure the implementation and continuous maintenance of corporate safety program requirements in all of the day-to-day operations on the project. -Prepare and manage weekly safety meetings, regular toolbox talks, and safety pre task meetings as required. -Establish and maintain a system of document control to assure work is being installed in accordance with the latest design documentation and approved shop drawings. -Monitor work and materials to ensure quality control standards are met at various stages of the project. -Develop, update, modify (as required) and maintain the project schedule including a master schedule, 60-day look ahead schedules for their assigned trades, and two-week look ahead schedules for their assigned trades. -Understand and uphold the site logistics plan. -Coordinate scheduling of subcontractors, vendors, and inspectors to complete each project on time. -Assist in preparation of the monthly status report to be submitted to the lender. -Communicate with and support each subcontractor to execute their job duties effectively and efficiently. -Assure the required permits and approvals from jurisdictional agencies are secured, posted, and renewed as required prior to starting work. -Travel between multiple job sites and simultaneously manage work loads of individual projects -While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. -Assure daily job progress photographs are taken in ample quantity to accurately depict the progress of the work.

Requirements

• 10+ years
• bachelor’s
• cost control
• scheduling
• communication
• stick-frame

What You Bring

-Requires ability to maintain confidentiality of all company and customer information. -Requires the ability to work with and have knowledge of the shop drawing submittal process. -Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. -Requires the ability to resolves field-initiated questions. -Requires working knowledge of various construction disciplines, cost control, scheduling, safety regulations, engineering drawings and other documents required. -Requires 10+ years of experience in Stick-frame Multi-Family Residential Construction. Previous Sitework and Structured Garage Construction experience is preferred. -Requires the ability to interact with all levels of personnel and customers. -Must possess strengths in verbal and written communications; ability to adapt communications/presentations and deliver clear and concise reports and analysis to senior management. -Requires the ability to determine the priority of assignments based on critical deadlines. -Understand and be familiar with the date by which all materials must arrive on the job and convey that information to the project management team for preparation of the contract items lists and shop drawing schedules. -Noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud. -Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. -Requires ability to meet deadlines and work in a structured corporate environment. -Requires the ability to read and comprehend building plans and specifications and able to comprehend and recognize safety standards and issues. -Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. -Requires superior communication and interpersonal (tact, diplomacy, influence, etc.) skills essential both within the internal project team and externally with subcontractors, labor force, etc. -Requires understanding of construction contracts, retention, releases. -Requires the ability to be self-motivated and work independently with minimal supervision. Also requires high degree of ethics and integrity. -Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. -Requires Engineering, Construction Management or related Bachelor’s degree, OR equivalent years of related experience.

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Benefits

-$2k relocation benefit available -No wait period for Health Benefits & we contribute $1k to the HSA plan -We have a great employee referral program -We match 50% of the first 6% of 401k contributions -We have assistance for student loans as well as tuition reimbursement -We offer a housing discount in all our communities

About Kushner

-It evolved into a national real estate firm, now managing tens of thousands of multifamily units and millions of square feet of commercial space. -Its vertically integrated model handles development, construction, acquisitions, and property management in-house. -Recent projects include Wynd 27 & 28 in Miami’s Wynwood and the towering One Journal Square in Jersey City. -The portfolio spans creative office conversions like the Puck Building and Dumbo Heights, alongside hospitality and retail ventures. -A rare combination of historic urban landmarks and modern suburban developments defines its footprint.

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