Structural Steel Superintendent

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the Construction and/or Project Manager and the project team.
• Collaborates with the Project Manager to ensure implementation of PCL’s safety program, integrating it into all site procedures and work plans while also ensuring adherence to record keeping requirements
• Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team, including direct and indirect reports.
• Effectively communicates with own forces, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure that performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met.
• Collaborates with field engineers, estimators, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications.
• Develops and implements Project Execution Plan (PEP).
• Visualizes an entire project, plans, and creates the complete project schedule, identifies the critical path, and anticipates constructability issues.
• Creates, maintains, and executes the project plan and schedule, including resource-loaded lookahead schedules, and ensures compliance with budget and quality.
• Reviews and understands the contract, subcontracts, and purchase orders, and develops a plan that identifies and mitigates risks while maximizing opportunities to ensure that all project goals, including budget and schedule, are met.
• Proactively manages potential problems, work interferences, and schedule conflicts/setbacks.
• Prepares and delivers daily and weekly progress reports to project leadership, ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Maintains project administration correspondence and complies with documentation requirements.
• Liaises with client, other site contractors, union and labor relations, and site and office representatives.
• Develops and maintains strong customer focused relationships with all stakeholders.
• Leads and oversees all structural steel erection activities, including rigging, signaling, fit-up, bolting, torquing, welding, field modifications, and coatings. Manages ironworkers, welders, rigging crews, and specialty subcontractors to ensure safe and efficient execution of steel work. Oversees critical and/or engineered crane lifts.
• Travels to various jobsite locations as required and may relocate to long term project sites to support schedule, oversight, and project execution needs.

Qualifications

• Journeyman certificate or undergraduate degree in a related discipline preferred.
• 10+ years of construction experience, including 5+ years in structural steel erection and progressive field supervision experience preferred.
• Experience on DOT or rail bridge construction or rehabilitation projects.
• Experience on movable bridges preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of and experience in construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction methods, procedures, and specifications.
• Ability to coordinate, schedule, and monitor multiple scopes of work on a construction project, including own forces and subcontracted work.
• In-depth knowledge of and ability to apply safety and environmental principles, procedures, and legislation.
• Ability to lead and run effective site meetings with the client, consultants, subcontractors, and internal employees.
• Proficient ability to apply logic to develop a schedule using scheduling software.
• Understanding of project scope and ability to apply intermediate-to-complex engineering principles and embed solutions in construction plans and schedules.
• Thorough understanding of productivity rates and ability to interpret labor cost reports.
• Thorough understanding of contract language with the ability to identify and mitigate risks and identify and leverage opportunities.
• Ability to present at client meetings or project pursuit interviews.
• Proven ability to manage multi-disciplinary crews.
• Ability to interpret structural and mechanical drawings and specifications.
• Ability to oversee rigging and heavy equipment operations with precision and reliability.
• Demonstrated conflict-resolution skills, problem-solving abilities, and professional judgment.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and internal operational systems.
• Successful completion of a pre employment Criminal History Background Screening to meet project specific requirements.