Deep Foundations - Superintendent

Kiewit

The Role

Overview

Oversee deep foundation field ops, ensuring safety, quality, schedule, cost and crew growth.

Key Responsibilities

  • safety compliance
  • client meetings
  • project planning
  • change orders
  • cost updates
  • contract administration

Tasks

-Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies. -Initiate and attend supplementary and regular meeting with client for problem resolution and planning. -Maintain daily diary for record keeping purposes. -Ensure that all performance evaluations and completed in a timely fashion for direct reports. -Develop and implement a plan for project completion and turnover. -Review, approve and negotiate change orders. -Review and approve the balance of Foremen, journeymen and laborer’s composite labor rates. -Recommend, where appropriate, organizational, policy and procedural or staff changes. -Review and approve or reject promotions up to General Foremen. -Manage contract administration (subcontractor/field management meeting for communication). -Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required. -Oversee and approve the monthly job cost updates and quarterly cash flow projections. -Mentor and help to grow Jr. Superintendents. -Develop a program to maintain good client relations involving staff on site.

Requirements

  • ground improvement
  • deep foundations
  • equipment knowledge
  • 8+ years
  • supervisory
  • problem solving

What You Bring

-Excellent organizational, administrative, communication, and interpersonal skills. -8+ years of experience in the planning, scheduling, and management of deep foundation and/or ground improvement operations. -Must be a self-starter, highly motivated, and able to work with minimal supervision. -Work productively and meet deadlines timely -Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment. -Strong all-around knowledge of ground improvement techniques, structural deep foundation methods, and support of excavation (SOE) operations; Ground Improvement experience includes rigid inclusions, soil mixing, vibro-replacement (stone columns), vibro-compaction, compaction grouting, permeation grouting, jet grouting, and deep dynamic compaction. Structural deep foundation experience includes micro piles, drilled shafts, aguer-cast-in-place piles, and divine piles. Support of excavation experience includes secant piles, soldier pile anchors, and tie-backs. -Experience with and broad knowledge of foundation/ground improvement equipment (drills, concrete pumps, batch plants), How to use it properly, and how to rapidly troubleshoot. -Ability to quickly learn and understand various processes regarding Kiewit’s policies, procedures, and software programs. -Regular, reliable attendance -5+ years of supervisory experience as a superintendent. -Ability to identify and resolve any problems that may arise. -Must be skilled in one of, if not multiple, of the following disciplines (pile driving, auger cast, small diameter shafts, micro piles, etc.) -Knowledge of proper pumping and placement of concrete and grout.

The Company

About Kiewit

-It evolved into a massive employee‑owned network operating across North America, delivering projects valued in the billions. -Today it specializes in transportation, water/wastewater, power, oil, gas & chemicals, building, industrial, marine and mining sectors. -Signature projects include New York’s 63rd Street Tunnel, Baltimore’s Fort McHenry Tunnel, T‑Mobile Park in Seattle, and major renewable energy sites. -Its marine division undertakes dredging, coastal resiliency and naval base work, while energy teams deliver gas, power delivery and renewables. -With deep roots in engineering‑led construction, it is known for tackling the kind of ‘impossible’ projects that reshape cities and industries.

Sector Specialisms

Mine Management

Production

Infrastructure Construction

Maintenance

Contract Mining

Power Industry

Gas-fired Generation

Power Delivery

Renewable Energy

Transportation

Interstates

Highways and Bridges

Rail Lines and Rail Yards

Urban Mass Transit Systems

Airport Runways and Taxiways

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Aviation

Commercial/Mixed-use

Federal

Healthcare

Higher Education

Hospitality

Sports/Entertainment

Transportation/Industrial Construction

Water Treatment and Supply

Desalination

Wastewater and Biosolids

Conveyance, Dams and Storage

Industrial Energy

Waste to Energy

Renewable Natural Gas

Food and Beverage

Pulp and Paper

Metals

Advanced Manufacturing

Industrial Water

Data Center / Mission Critical

Education

Government

Manufacturing / Industrial

Mixed Use / Retail

Transit Facilities

Offshore

Oil Sands

Gas Processing

Pipeline Facilities

Tanks and Terminals

LNG

Refining and Renewable Fuels

Petrochemical

Energy Storage

Gas and Hydrogen-fired Generation

Nuclear

Coal Retrofit