Foreman (Carpenter)

Summary

Kokosing is seeking a Carpenter Foreman to work on heavy highway projects in the Richmond, VA area. The role supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in construction, installation, and repair of roads, bridge structures, and fixtures.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Reviews documents and plans, ensuring all questions are answered before proceeding.
• Examines blueprints, plans, and profiles to determine dimensions of structures and road or pipeline grades.
• Works from surveyor’s layout and cutsheets; determines line and grade where necessary.
• Directs and trains crew in performing work as shown on contract drawings and specifications within the production budget.
• Acts as OSHA‑defined “competent person” on the job.
• Selects materials and structural units, such as lumber and forms, to ensure conformance with project provisions.
• Plans ahead to ensure appropriate materials are on hand when needed.
• With Superintendent and Project Engineer, plans sequence of activities on a two‑week schedule.
• Assigns workers to tasks such as operating machinery, cutting material, building concrete forms, erecting wooden framework, or laying pipe.
• Inspects work performed by subcontractors to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Supervises workers engaged in building structures such as cofferdams, excavation support, and concrete forms.
• Studies production schedules and estimates worker hour requirements for job completion.
• Conducts daily “Huddle” with crew, explaining work details and training inexperienced members.
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces disciplinary procedures.
• Evaluates ongoing safety issues and makes necessary changes.
• Enforces safety regulations and use of personal protective equipment.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules.
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and product quality.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and equipment use to increase crew efficiency.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems or assists workers in solving them.
• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve goals.
• Maintains detailed time and production records, including verified quantities and work locations.
• Keeps the job team informed of progress and problems.
• Estimates, requisitions, and inspects materials.
• Sets up machines and equipment and supervises their use.
• Maintains a detailed daily job diary.
• Holds weekly safety meetings for the crew and files attendance reports.
• Performs activities of workers supervised and minimizes punch‑list items.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the crew.
• May manage one Lead Person who supervises 2–3 employees, and directly supervises 3–5 non‑supervisory employees.
• Training employees, planning, assigning, and directing work.
• Appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees.
• Addressing complaints and resolving problems in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.

Qualifications

• Five years related experience and/or training.
• Experience with structures for bridge and roadway work.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Effective oral communication skills for groups of customers or employees.
• Mathematical ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and compute rates, ratios, and percentages.
• Reasoning ability to apply common sense to written, oral, or diagram instructions and solve problems with multiple variables.

Physical Demands

The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear. Frequent work on uneven ground and lifting/moving up to 50 pounds is required. Vision requirements include close, distance, peripheral, depth perception, and focus adjustment.

Pay

Expected base hourly range: $35 – $48 per hour. This range reflects factors such as education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity. Incentive pay and benefits are provided separately.

Work Environment

The role involves exposure to outside weather conditions, uneven ground, high or precarious places, shafts, tunnels, occasional fumes or airborne particles, vibration, and moderate to occasional loud noise.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k) plan