Foreman (Structures)

Job Description

Kokosing (www.kokosing.biz) is seeking a Structures Foreman to oversee construction projects in the Northern VA/DC/MD area. Essential duties include reviewing documents, inspecting work, and managing a team.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reviews documents and plans, ensuring all questions are answered before proceeding.
• Examines blueprints, plans, and profiles to determine dimensions and grades.
• Works from surveyor’s layout and cut sheets; determines line and grade where necessary.
• Directs and trains crew in performing work as shown on contract drawings and specifications.
• Selects materials and structural units to ensure conformance with project requirements.
• Plans ahead to ensure materials are available when needed.
• Plans sequence of activities on the project in a two-week schedule.
• Sets up machines and equipment and supervises their use.
• Maintains detailed daily job diary.
• Holds meaningful weekly safety meetings for the crew.
• Estimates, requisitions, and inspects materials.
• Keeps job team informed of progress and problems.
• Finishes work activities to minimize punch list.
• Supervises workers engaged in building structures such as cofferdams, support of excavation, and concrete forms.
• Studies production schedules and estimates worker hours.
• Maintains time and production records: detailed and accurate time sheets, with verified quantities included and detailed locations of work performed.
• Turns in time sheets on time.
• Interprets company policies to workers.
• Enforces and abides by Company disciplinary procedures when dealing with employee problems.
• Evaluates ongoing safety issues on the job and makes changes where necessary.
• 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 quality of product.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of work crew.
• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems or assists workers in solving work problems.

Qualifications

• Five years related experience and/or training.
• Experience with structures for bridge and roadway work required.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

Physical Demands

• Regularly stands, walks, uses hands to finger, handle, or feel, reaches with hands and arms, stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls, talks or hears.
• Exposure to outside weather conditions and high, precarious places or work in shafts and tunnels.
• Exposure to fumes or airborne particles and vibration.
• Occasional exposure to noise levels in the work environment.

Work Environment

• Exposed to outside weather conditions and must walk or work on uneven ground.
• Exposure to high, precarious places or work in shafts and tunnels.
• Exposure to fumes or airborne particles and vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, occasionally loud.

Benefits

• Medical, life, and disability insurance.
• Paid time off.
• 401K plan.

Equal Employment Opportunity

• Kokosing is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action federal and state contractor.
• The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.