Pipe Foreman

Pipe Foreman Job Description Summary

The Pipe Foreman is responsible for overseeing the daily activities of a construction pipe project to provide the most effective and productive utilization of time and materials, while ensuring the project is delivered on time, within budget, and without significant safety issues.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains open communications with all parties involved in the project, including clients, subcontractors, project managers, site managers, asset managers, superintendents, safety personnel/officials, and neighboring individuals/entities.
• Develops strong relationships, encourages, and seeks opportunities for collaborative efforts, seeks understanding of issues, anticipates and troubleshoots problems, and resolves urgent and ongoing matters affecting the timely and safe completion of the project.
• Serves as the first point of contact for the project regarding laborers, operators, and vendors.
• Communicates schedule changes to all affected parties.
• Conferences with Project Manager on communications issues or conflicts that cannot be resolved at the project level.
• Trains, coaches, and educates laborers and operators in their daily job tasks, proper preventative maintenance of tools and equipment, and the use of the equipment checklist.
• Reviews site needs, personnel scheduling or performance/conduct issues, budgetary concerns, safety, equipment matters, and objectives daily with the Superintendent in order to drive project completion in accordance with Kelchner’s standards.
• Maintains full knowledge of equipment and tool purpose, use, and operation in order to instruct personnel and to provide direct application of skills to the project as needed. Leads regular toolbox talks.
• Ensures that project has all initial and current materials, drawings, binders, estimates, and job specifications on hand at all times. Communicates changes in such to appropriate personnel.
• Remains alert to potential or escalating morale issues, personnel problems, regulatory agency visitors, or safety concerns, and communicates same with management.
• Coordinates rentals with Site Manager/Asset Manager/Superintendent in order to maximize utilization and minimize amount of usage time required.
• Addresses customer/client/neighborhood concerns with Project Manager and may participate in providing information back to originating party.
• Reviews daily equipment checklists and provides feedback to maintenance and Superintendent as needed. Troubleshoots and resolves minor issues personally, prioritizes repairs with mechanics/maintenance staff, and reassigns operators during equipment downtime.
• Solves GPS issues, escalates discrepancies, or errors to Surveyors, and communicates topographic map needs to Surveyors.
• Coordinates deliveries of materials/supplies with vendors/subcontractors, inspects deliveries as needed, and works with vendors to resolve any quality issues discovered. Communicates unresolved concerns to Superintendent.
• Communicates schedules for equipment arrival and departure or other resource deliveries with Logistics, assists in determining best routes for transport, and coordinates use of manpower for traffic duty.
• Records data into cost/time tracking software system, ensuring that information is up-to-date and accurate. Provides feedback to management concerning coding or variances from established budgets/standards.

Operational Responsibilities

• Acquires and discusses plans, directions, supplies, resources, and schedules with the Superintendent; confers with the Superintendent and Site Manager on project, manpower, and equipment needs; shares information and seeks to troubleshoot any issue in advance of effect on the project.
• Studies specifications, such as blueprints, binders, and other drawings, to determine construction requirements or to plan procedures, assesses priorities daily, and adjusts schedule or activities accordingly.
• Ensures that operators and laborers have sufficient on-the-job training to perform their daily job tasks safely and productively, understand their responsibilities with regard to equipment maintenance and cleanliness, and are oriented to the company’s mission, philosophies, culture, and values.
• Maintains full knowledge of equipment and tool purpose, use, and operation in order to instruct personnel and to provide direct application of skills to the project as needed. Leads regular toolbox talks.
• Reviews site needs, personnel scheduling or performance/conduct issues, budgetary concerns, safety, equipment matters, and objectives daily with the Superintendent in order to drive project completion in accordance with Kelchner’s standards.
• Inspects work progress, equipment, subcontractor activities, and project site routinely to verify proper compliance with safety standards and regulations, personal protective equipment and dress requirements, building codes, preventative maintenance standards, and environmental controls.
• Maintains full knowledge of equipment and tool purpose, use, and operation in order to instruct personnel and to provide direct application of skills to the project as needed. Leads regular toolbox talks.
• Ensures that project has all initial and current materials, drawings, binders, estimates, and job specifications on hand at all times. Communicates changes in such to appropriate personnel.
• Remains alert to potential or escalating morale issues, personnel problems, regulatory agency visitors, or safety concerns, and communicates same with management.
• Coordinates rentals with Site Manager/Asset Manager/Superintendent in order to maximize utilization and minimize amount of usage time required.
• Addresses customer/client/neighborhood concerns with Project Manager and may participate in providing information back to originating party.
• Reviews daily equipment checklists and provides feedback to maintenance and Superintendent as needed. Troubleshoots and resolves minor issues personally, prioritizes repairs with mechanics/maintenance staff, and reassigns operators during equipment downtime.
• Solves GPS issues, escalates discrepancies, or errors to Surveyors, and communicates topographic map needs to Surveyors.
• Coordinates deliveries of materials/supplies with vendors/subcontractors, inspects deliveries as needed, and works with vendors to resolve any quality issues discovered. Communicates unresolved concerns to Superintendent.
• Communicates schedules for equipment arrival and departure or other resource deliveries with Logistics, assists in determining best routes for transport, and coordinates use of manpower for traffic duty.
• Records data into cost/time tracking software system, ensuring that information is up-to-date and accurate. Provides feedback to management concerning coding or variances from established budgets/standards.

Skills / Qualifications

• The ability to work 55 – 60 hours per week.
• The ability to work Saturdays and occasionally on Sunday.
• A valid Driver's License with the ability to be insured by the company’s insurance and operate a company owned vehicle.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job with or without reasonable accommodation, the employee must have the ability to stand; walk; sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl for long periods.
• Must be able to handle and manipulate objects on a repetitive basis.
• Ability to talk and see well to distinguish between back up alarms, voices, and other normal sounds consistent with construction job sites.
• The employee is occasionally required to taste or smell.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job with or without reasonable accommodations, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes, airborne particles, outside weather conditions, and vibrations.
• The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions as well as heat.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

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