Decking Installer Supervisor

Position Summary

This position is responsible for supervising Industrial Painter, Industrial Blaster, and Marine Decking type work across multiple projects. Decking material may consist of quarry, ceramic, porcelain, and mosaic tiles. Installation of soft tiles, sheet Goods, carpet and carpet tiles. Installation of trowel-finished epoxy Terrazzo, color flake systems, and underlayment.

Essential Functions And Major Responsibilities

• Leads and communicates company safety culture and policies regardless of reporting structure (discipline, incident reports, investigations, etc.).
• Leads craft Safety meetings.
• Holds employees accountable for demonstrating acceptable safety practices.
• Provides input to ways to instill attention to safety among all employees.
• Works closely with the Production Managers and Superintendents for elements in the projects in the supervisor’s craft area; handles planning including specifying staffing needs and scheduling, tools, materials, equipment, and subcontractors.
• Supervises assigned employees which may also include lower-level supervisors. Supervision includes assignment to tasks, assuring completion of tasks within deadlines, resolving conflicts, applying needed disciplinary action with designated management representative, and reassigning employees across projects.
• Writes/receives verbal and written turnovers at shift changes.
• Covers Quality Control Inspections for assigned crafts. Assures employees accomplish work in accordance with proper practices and within specifications.
• Prepares condition found reports (CFR), change orders and job hazard analyses (JHA) for the assigned craft activities by hand or using computer software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and email.
• Ability to teach and coach others in how to prepare CFR, JHA, and change orders.
• Communicates changes in practices or policies; demonstrates and models behavior supportive of the direction the company is headed; provides meaningful and constructive suggestions for practice improvements; acts as and is recognized leader among peers.
• Trains, coaches, and mentors other supervisors in staffing, scheduling, and other upper-level supervisory functions.
• Afford assistance estimating department as required for bidding potential work for division.
• Reviews all specifications/bid estimates/budget to ensure we have accurate, profitable work assigned “on time, on budget.”
• Maintains monitoring and tracking key performance indicators through dashboards and scorecards. Provides post project input to improve our estimating metrics.
• Performs related duties as assigned.
• This role plays a hands-on level of supervision, spending time on the shop floor or vessel projects managing both supervisors and production team members. This Supervisor role would spend 70% of their time on project and 30% of their time on office work.
• Interpersonal Contacts: Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees. Able to manage own time effectively. Ability to follow written and oral instructions, regarding daily functions, safety rules and regulations, and possible hazardous conditions. Ability to give instruction to others assigned to assist on projects.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and employees.
• Act as a lead and be recognized as such by others.
• Read, understand, and apply specifications, blueprints, technical procedures, and regulations.
• Identify problems with production and re-chart to correct.
• Direct, coach, and motivate the work of others.
• Cover multiple details related to various projects simultaneously.
• Skills in directing and coordinating the work of others.
• Operating a personal computer and various PC applications such as word processing and spreadsheets.
• Interpreting an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form.
• Working with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Effectively resolving conflict.
• Using tools as required for accomplishing the work.
• Prepare detailed specification and estimates for competitive bids and contract work.
• Track and report progress of shop and production work.
• Adjust schedule to accommodate difference between plan and performance.
• Database operations i.e. data input, error correction, query tools, reporting tools.
• Problem solving i.e. issue identification, assessment, risk management.
• Job Analysis i.e. identify trends, process analysis, decision-making, and providing recommendations based on potential improvements.
• Scheduling Production activities i.e. material costs, material requirements, labor costs, work hours, etc.
• Demonstrates ability to delegate and instruct smart objectives.
• Demonstrates understanding of Safety Documentation.
• Demonstrates ability in using inspection procedures and related technical documentation.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) requirements including inspection.
• Identify when environmental protection is required/needed.

Education And/Or Experience

• Min. of five (5) years’ experience in the industry, preference will be given to applicants who have five (5) years of experience in the trade and in a supervisor capacity.
• SSPC PCI-2, NACE CIP-2 or SSPC QCS preferred.