Construction Superintendent

Key Responsibilities

• Review contract drawings, specifications, and addenda for design deficiencies, impractical details, and possible code violations, prepare RFIs as needed, and bring these to the Project Manager's attention.
• Take detailed Daily Reports of work done, detailing the labor and material employed, issues experienced, and inspections taking place using the program provided by the Company.
• Keep detailed record drawings or "asbuilts" using the program provided by the company.
• Maintain frequent (at least weekly) meetings with the project team throughout the job.
• Communicate with the project team in person, by phone, or in writing.
• Prepare 3-week lookahead schedules prior to owner progress meetings.
• Negotiate additional work with subcontractors, track time and material (T&M) tickets accurately, and maintain specifications/requisition records of these activities for the job.
• Attend subcontractors' safety program toolbox safety meetings on a routine basis.
• Prepare for and hold weekly safety program toolbox safety meetings for company’s employees.
• Ensure project materials and workmanship meet project quality standards.
• Aid the Project Manager in developing and refining the project schedule, work with the Project Manager and Assistant Project Manager to update the schedule, and ensure the job meets the required dates routinely.
• Document the construction process and keep all parties informed on important issues.
• Especially keep the daytime office staff appraised of things they would normally not know.
• Have a thorough and complete knowledge and understanding of the prime contract, each subcontract, the contract drawings, specifications, and addenda, and assist the Project Manager in developing the onsite procedures.
• Maintain an adequate workforce of subcontractors to meet the project schedule.
• Coordinate material delivery and track delivery times, ensuring that material arrives at the job site when needed.
• Verify material delivered and ensure it matches approved submittals, purchase orders, and plans.
• Verify change order work.
• Cookordination with the Project Manager on pricing substantial/nonroutine work change orders.
• Cookordination all necessary inspections during the job.
• Develop interpersonal relationships with owner’s representatives, inspectors, and the architect on the project.
• Establish and maintain a compelling and harmonious working relationship with the onsite staff and promote positive project morale.
• Meet subcontractor project managers, subcontractor supervisors, architects, inspectors, and other stakeholders in a preconstruction conference to discuss the scope, potential problems, and decisions.
• Conduct a precompletion walkthrough with the project team members to prepare a quality control punch list.
• Expedite the punch list completion and follow up until the final payment request has been submitted.
• Superintendent's input is required for the Project Manager to approve all requests for payment to subcontractors.
• Verify that requests are correctly allocated to a job, priced accordingly and that the invoices reflect actual progress.
• Meet with the Project Manager to create plans on how the company will save future money on an overrunning job.
• Maximize performance on the job site.

Qualifications

• Engineering, Construction Management or Architectural degree, or equivalent experience
• Extensive field construction experience at supervisory level (Minimum 8 years as Superintendent)
• Current Safety Trained Supervisor (STS) Certification, or achievement of STS Certification within six months of hire, maintenance of active certification status
• Working knowledge of all crafts (ability to read and understand specifications for all trades), and prior experience as foreman or journeyman in at least one trade, or project engineer
• Knowledge of OSHA laws
• Knowledge of job scheduling, planning, expediting and cost control
• Ability in problemsolving
• Strong sense of urgency