Commercial Construction Superintendent

About the role

The Superintendent provides field supervision for projects and ensures that the project is built in conformity with established quality standards in a timely and cost efficient manner.

Responsibilities

• Makes decisions on routine matters, provides recommendations to supervisor and refers all exceptions to supervisors.
• Attends meetings with the Owner and/or Architect & Engineer as requested by the Project Manager.
• Attends all project organization meetings including assignments for project staff.
• Conducts weekly meeting with the Subcontractor foremen to review job progress, safety issues, and competency of field employees.
• Writes a report covering the details of this meeting and submits to the Project Manager.
• Completes Subcontractor and Supplier evaluations in a timely manner as requested.
• Evaluates the Project Manager in a timely basis in accordance with Company procedure.
• Establishes, monitors and enforces the security of the Job Site.
• Maintains daily communications with the Project Manager to assure the timely passing of critical information.
• Promptly notifies the Safety Consultant, Controller, General Superintendent and Project Manager, in accordance with established procedures, of any accidents.
• Provides written Daily Reports to the Project Manager with accurate and detailed information.
• Ensures that required inspections occur to verify the quality of work performed on the Job Sites and that inspections are timely.
• Promptly, notifies the Project Manager of any problems that arise that will have an impact on price or completion.
• Ensures that all Company safety policies, rules, and regulations are followed and enforced.
• Includes Weekly Safety Reports, assessments and Toolbox Talks.
• Remains current with industry trends, changes in installation procedures and governmental codes.
• Checks all contractor reports submitted to the Superintendent for accuracy and completeness; coordinates paper flow and maintains records as appropriate to the project.
• Using the Drawings, Specifications, Subcontractor Agreements, Purchase Orders and other applicable documents, resolves any conflicts that arise relative to Scope of Work.
• If a change in Scope of Work occurs, completes the necessary documentation and promptly advises the Project Manager.
• Attends Company Superintendent’s Meetings.
• Completes and submits time sheets weekly.
• Responsible for the tracking and reporting of self-performed productivity reports to accounting weekly.
• Accurately completes tool reporting log.
• Verifies that Contractors & Suppliers on site have current insurance and workers’ compensation certificates on file as required.
• Responsible for accurate coding and forwarding of delivery tickets to Accounting.
• Completes and submits Expense Reports monthly.
• Completes and submits a Two Week Man Power Look Ahead Schedule and Two Week Look Ahead Schedule to be submitted weekly.
• Participates in the investigation and solution of Owner complaints as necessary.
• Always informs the Project Manager of any complaint.
• Shuts down work at Job Sites because of safety hazards, both potential and actual.
• Inform the Project Manager on a regular basis on all issues, potential and actual, that can affect schedule, quality or cost.
• Completes and issues field changes and back charge reports.
• Performs any other task or duty as may be assigned by the General Superintendent.
• Ensures that employees reporting directly or indirectly to the Superintendent are accountable for tools, material and equipment.
• Expedites deliveries, material problems and shortages and informs the Project Manager of any item that will affect timely completion.
• Receives and ensures the secure handling, and storing of materials, tools, and equipment.
• Requests approval from the Project Manager and/or General Superintendent for overtime for direct hires or Subcontractors.
• Ensures that labor staffing is maintained at a sufficient level to meet the project schedule needs without undue reliance on excessive overtime.
• Assists WBC and/or subcontractor foreman in resolving any problems.
• Maintains cooperative working relationships with all Company employees.
• This includes "inter" and "intra" departmental employees.
• Also included are all Subcontractor, Owners, Architects, Suppliers, etc.
• Is alert to opportunities to change equipment, methods, processes and procedures that can benefit the Company and the overall project performance.
• Researches and develops these ideas with the Project Manager as may be appropriate.
• Ensures that direct hires (carpenters, laborers, etc.) are trained to perform their jobs adequately and safely including requirements of company Drug Free Workplace requirements.
• Advise the General Superintendent two (2) weeks in advance of any pending needs for direct hires.
• Cost codes all delivery & purchase tickets for items delivered to site.
• Submit these to the Accounting Department weekly.
• Keeps informed of the general employee morale and initiates whatever procedures are necessary to improve and maintain an acceptable level.
• In conjunction with the Project Manager, reviews budgets with actual costs on a weekly basis or as set forth by the project team at the Project Kickoff Meeting.
• Provides acceptable explanations on variations relating to labor and productivity and ensures that prompt remedial actions are taken as required.

Qualifications

• High school or GED from an accredited school system or program.
• 1-3 years field supervisory experience with a company comparable to Welty Building Company is preferred.

Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of construction codes in the areas that Welty Building Co. Ltd. operates, and the types of materials that will meet or exceed those codes.
• Supervisory skills.
• Ability to work closely with diverse groups of people, including Company employees at all levels, owners, suppliers, subcontractors, architects and other outside professionals with whom the Company deals with on a regular basis.
• Knowledge of safety rules and regulations pertaining to the construction industry.
• Ability to effectively delegate specific tasks and/or duties to appropriate personnel and to monitor progress of the tasks and duties which have been delegated on an ongoing basis.
• Ability to establish, monitor and attain quality and service goals.
• Ability to motivate a varied work force.
• Ability to read blueprints and layouts, plans and specifications and establish resource allocation to optimize workflow and productivity.
• Ability to organize and schedule the project and the work force.
• Ability to produce various Project Reports and to compare planned to actual progress to meet construction schedules and productivity goals.
• Ability to work with Project Managers, Subcontractors, Owners and Architects and to suggest and resolve various issues as they may arise on a project.
• Ability to monitor and control multiple areas of a project simultaneously.
• Problem solving skills.
• Listening skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to recognize and establish priorities.
• Ability to work independently and with little direct supervision.

Education

High school or GED from an accredited school system or program.