Project Superintendent

Description

• Discuss quality expectations with trade foremen prior to installation (pre-bid, post-bid, and pre-installation meetings).
• Plan and coordinate site logistics, including traffic patterns, equipment locations, and storage and staging.
• Prioritize and review critical submittals for dimensional control and constructability.
• Compile fair and honest reports of the project team's experience with each trade contractor using the trade contractor evaluation survey.
• Define safety expectations by providing a safety orientation for every individual who enters the site. Emphasize the importance of not sacrificing safety for speed. Discuss relevant safety topics with trade contractor on a weekly basis or more frequently if needed.
• Establish project site expectations for safety, quality, unforeseen conditions, housekeeping, and general conduct.
• Review conceptual, schematic, and design development documents for constructability, phasing options, temporary protection requirements, site logistics, and other field construction issues. Recommend or evaluate construction options and efficiencies based on these reviews.
• Promptly report and investigate accidents and safety-related incidents, disciplining repeat or extreme violations, up to and including, permanently removing individuals from the project site.
• Plan and coordinate timely initiation, momentum, and completion of all trade contract work on the project site according to the project schedule.
• Verify and authorize trade contractor timesheets for extra work performed on a time and material basis.
• Oversee technical interpretation of construction documents and drawings, recommend construction methods, and equipment as required. Assure consistency with contractual specifications and requirements for the project.
• Arrange and coordinate timely permitting and required inspections to start and complete work.
• Arrange pre-installation coordination meetings for all work areas that involve overlapping work by multiple trade contractors.
• Maintain rolling punch list defining final quality expectations and ensure completion.
• Ensures Christman is represented at the project site every day work is being performed by setting expectations, responsibilities, and maintaining commitments.
• Partner with Project Manager, client, and trade contractors to develop a work plan for the project. Coordinate project team's preparation for upcoming work through progress meetings.
• Continuously assess and analyze the project's actual status against goals, develop contingency plans, and revise construction strategy as required.
• Complete thorough and accurate daily reports of progress and concerns or challenges, including daily weather and safety inspections, violations, and accidents.
• Address early offenses to clarify expectations and reinforce commitment to safety, recognize and correct common work area hazards.
• When conflicts and disputes arise during the course of the project, focus all parties on developing mutually acceptable solutions aligned with the contractual agreements.
• Authorize purchase requisitions for material, equipment, and labor as agreed with Project Manager, Executive, or Director prior to the project startup or in the event emergency situations arise and is required to keep the project and team members safe.
• Create project-specific safety program highlighting key or unique hazards introduced by site conditions or work methods and scheduled adjacencies. Develop and communicate leadership approach for addressing hazards on the project.

Requirements

• Equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.
• Be able to frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.
• Successful completion of classes or other training in Construction Management, Project Management, Safety, or Communication.
• Must be able to talk, hear, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, be able to use a telephone and operate a keyboard.
• Minimum five (5) years of commercial construction experience in a leadership role as a Foreman or Superintendent.
• Ability to occasionally stand, walk, sit, reach (with hands and arms), climb, balance stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or related field.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance