BOILERMAKER FOREMAN - Austin Industrial - Orange, TX

About the role

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for over 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision and coordination of workers (both skilled and unskilled) engaged in various types of construction projects.
• Schedule work to meet timetables in a safe manner, per the plans and specifications, and to meet estimated cost.
• Maintain a good working relationship with inspectors, developers, vendors, subcontractors, etc.
• Manage a small amount of onsite equipment fleet
• Recruit hourly trade personnel
• Execute “Look Ahead” schedules
• Manage craftsmen, equipment, and material resources
• Logistics planning
• Execute project Work Plans
• Work crews productively and efficiently; meet daily cost objectives
• Train
• Purchase unincorporated materials, tools, supplies
• Monitor daily labor costs and production rates for accuracy and conformance with established budgets
• Take corrective action to improve productivity when labor costs exceed expected norms
• Encourage craftsmen to develop innovative methods for increasing efficiency, productivity, and profitability in their particular operation and provide feedback and coaching on how the work is proceeding
• Execute hourly time card reporting
• Maintain all equipment assigned to crew and conduct preventive maintenance training for operator(s)
• Responsible for various hand tools and the proper storage of all equipment at the end of each day
• Provide a detailed construction plan for each day and general plan for one week
• Manage work to stay within schedule
• Manage scheduling of all QA/QC inspections of work necessary to obtain owner acceptance of the work
• Inspect work in progress and ensure that it is performed within the tolerances established
• Take corrective action when tolerances and/or overall performance standards are not being maintained
• Manage the work of subcontractors to ensure compliance with plan, specifications, and schedules
• Conduct Tool Box and JHA Safety Meetings with employee-owners to instruct them on topics for accident prevention
• Enforce all safety regulations and company policies, and is constantly alert to all safety conditions
• Investigate alternative work methods and materials to improve efficiency and work quality; works to resolve issues
• Ensure compliance with plans and specifications
• Perform a variety of tasks associated with project completion, including closeout punch lists, demobilization, etc.
• Maintain a detailed and accurate daily report of all activity associated with field construction activities
• Ensure that equipment is being used for its intended purpose in the correct manner
• Interpret company policies to workers and disseminates
• Conduct on-the-job training for qualified personnel and records and reports hours on Foreman’s Daily Control
• Fill out Foreman’s Daily Control correctly with employee-owners’ hours, job number, cost codes, quantities, etc.

Qualifications

• Education – no minimum education requirements
• Certifications/ Licenses: NCCER, TWIC and DL
• Experience – 5+ years of Industrial and Supervisory experience preferred