Plumbing Superintendent

About the role

The purpose of the Plumbing Superintendent position is to manage the manpower to run the day-to-day field-coordinated operations on all construction projects. The Plumbing Superintendent is responsible for safety guidelines, hiring and maintaining the best personnel, proper manpower mix, manpower performance, productivity, promoting teamwork, and producing a satisfied customer.

Essential Skills

• A sound knowledge of the industry.
• A sound knowledge of OSHA requirements as they apply to construction.
• Good organizational skills and time management skills.
• Good decision-making skills.
• Ability to communicate with a diverse range of people when in the field.
• Ability to understand the industry's field requirements.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Promote our safety culture.
• Locate, hire, train, and maintain the RIGHT team members to be successful.
• Maintain a proper ratio of apprentices in our workforce.
• Supervise Training Manager for specific training needs for field crew workers.
• Encourage a team approach to promote effective constructability and productivity.
• Ensure daily documentation is completed daily by the field foreman.
• Review project documents, information, and requirements.
• Assign a foreman suitable for each project and keep the foreman on the job site for the duration of the project.
• Encourage and enforce BIM coordination participation by project foreman and general foreman.
• Hold team members accountable for our 5-star results and culture of accountability!
• Encourage proper use and procedures of company assets.
• Encourage the use of prefabrication to increase productivity and control cost.
• No pre-fab will be produced without Foreman’s sign-off.
• Develop a checklist for weekly accounting of required foreman documentation.
• Hold team members accountable for all required paperwork. (daily reports, 3-week look aheads, Safety, etc.)
• Visit job sites regularly and walk projects to identify quality concerns and future punch list items.
• Work with team members to pre-plan materials and manpower activities to correspond with a three-week look ahead.
• Goal – 1 requisition per week.
• Meet with GC’s every time you are onsite and communicate where we are on their projects.
• Attend and participate in all manpower meetings.
• Fill out weekly manpower tracker and send to Vice President at least one day prior to manpower meeting.
• Attend and participate in all Operations meetings.
• Implement mandatory monthly Foreman meetings to discuss best practices, recent challenges, and changes being implemented, encourage and reinforce expectations, and recognize and reward high performers.
• Include other depts. (Vendor training if possible)
• Participate in all quarterly foreman meetings.
• Performance reviews of all foreman
• Maintain the proper documentation on employees
• Maintain CDR and Procore.
• Project Visits Oversee project status for comparison to the contract on: Project schedule, Quality, Project hours to complete– including overtime & temp labor, Pre-planning- Verify foreman are staying ahead of the team per the 3 week look ahead, Verify that rentals are being used to the full extent and/or called off if not being used, Attend weekly onsite staff meetings with project team as available.
• Site Responsibilities Require foremen to perform punch-lists and/or remediation of deficiency lists immediately upon receipt. Upon completion, documentation will be provided with a letter to the general contractor.
• Walk all projects with general foreman and foreman to create an accurate 3-week look ahead.
• Work with the foreman to use their 3-week look ahead to minimize emergency purchase requests and emergency pre-fab requests.
• Require foremen to be fully responsible for their projects. If a foreman is pulled off a job to start a new job, make sure a proper transition is done.
• Review weekly Job Cost Reports. Monitor project budgets with all foremen. Check on subcontractors continually.
• Quality of the installation, plans, and specification are met. Proper personnel should be maintained along with timeliness.
• Promote a team concept. Work together and treat other employees the same way you would expect to be treated.

Core Values

• Be Respectful

Education and Experience

• Associate degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year College or technical school;
• or 8 years related experience and/or training;
• or equivalent combination of education and experience.