Senior Superintendent

About the role

The Senior Superintendent oversees large-scale, high-profile, or technically complex construction projects, providing strategic direction and leadership to site teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain safety standards – monitor safety planning, execution and documentation on assigned project.
• Manage project planning – develop and execute the pre-job plan. Determine the construction techniques to be used to construct the project.
• Develop and maintain the Site Utilization Plan.
• Manage the preparation of the CPM baseline, monthly CPM schedule updates and narratives, and CPM fragments with changes and delays.
• Manage and develop field engineers and assistant superintendents. Orient new personnel to the company and project.
• Review equipment requirements with the project manager.
• Review monthly sub pay apps to ensure progress in line with actual work installed.
• Cook up and manage all subcontractors and vendors.
• Conduct Weekly Subcontractor Coordination Meetings with all onsite or soon to be onsite subcontractor supervision.
• Expedite vendors and subcontractors on a daily and weekly basis.
• Identify and resolve construction problems as they develop. Keep the project on schedule.
• Maintain accurate timekeeping and cost records.
• Review weekly labor reports and monthly total job cost reports carefully to determine areas needing special attention, and initiate changes and procedures to bring costs back into budget.
• Comply with all jobsite reporting requirements, including daily reports, SOS, weekly unit reports, weekly updates to the “two-week look-ahead” and monthly updates to the construction schedule.
• Plan, staff and manage self-performance activities.
• Manage the Quality Control Program.
• Maintain a clean and orderly job site.
• Mitigate all potential subcontractors’ change orders and back-charges that may affect project profitability and document them to the extent required.
• Close out the project in compliance with the contract documents.
• Strives to satisfy the customer, subcontractor, vendor and company.

Qualifications

• B.A. or B.S. in Engineering, Construction Management or Architecture, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of Superintendent experience
• Safety acumen
• Experience in scheduling, field supervision, quality control and production of all phases of construction