Superintendent
Fairfield, ME
Full Time
Experienced
Work Hours: 40-50 hours per week
FLSA: Nonexempt, Hourly and Exempt, Salaried
Position Summary: Responsible for overseeing and coordinating all activities of a construction site according to design documents, specifications, and schedule. This includes managing company employees, hired workers, subcontractors, engineers, project representatives and the public. In addition, the project supervisor is responsible for safety compliance and enforcement, coordinating materials and equipment, providing on-site direction, as well as managing quality control, meeting production benchmarks, and project completion deadlines.
Physical Requirements:
- Able to walk, stand, and sit for long periods of time.
- Ability to grasp, reach for, handle, and manipulate objects.
- Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer and mouse.
- Occasionally lift and carry materials weighing up to 50 pounds.
- Climb, balance, kneel, crouch, and reach to perform daily inspections and to assist with miscellaneous project tasks.
- Rake, shovel and dig with hand tools when necessary to assist crews under their supervision.
- See (naturally or with correction).
- Hear (naturally or with correction).
- Be physically able to work safely and perform assigned tasks for up to 12 hours in hot, cold or generally poor weather conditions.
- Manage company employees along with the coordination of subcontractors, third party inspectors, vendors, and other visitors to the project.
- Implement and enforce all OSHA safety rules applicable to the scope of work being performed.
- Communicate effectively with project team to ensure safety, quality, and production requirements and expectations are being properly addressed and implemented.
- Perform quality control duties, identify conflicts and provide a resolution, coordinate with applicable parties to provide proper documentation.
- Ensure that subcontractors are executing and complying with the contractual scope of work.
- Pre-plan work to identify potential conflicts that would impact project safety or interrupt production and project schedule.
- Maintain daily project log of activities.
- Ensure identified deficiencies are corrected.
- Walk the work area throughout the day to monitor activities and assist with planning.
- Ensure the job site is maintained in a clean and organized condition to eliminate, manage, or minimize hazards.
- Perform job progress and completion lists to keep the project on schedule and within budget.
- Have a full understanding of the project specifications, safety needs, and budget constraints.
- Participate in project scheduling meetings and manage any identified conflicts.
- Assist other workers and site managers to move the project forward safely and productively.
- Confirm operators, drivers and laborers are inspecting and maintaining equipment each day to ensure it is in good working condition.
- Ability to read and understand project specifications, training materials, signs, written requirements, and directions.
- Ability to calculate quantities, organize project costs, determine location of utilities and structures on projects, determine grade and elevation to meet project standards.
- Effective communication skills, allowing a person to listen, comprehend and express a variety of directions and job expectations.
- Ask appropriate questions if additional information is needed or expectations are not clear.
- Perform a variety of tasks at the same time and adjust depending on job needs and schedule.
- Perform work in a way that emphasizes attention to safety, production, and quality.
- Customer Service: Manages difficult or emotional customer situations, responds promptly to customer needs, solicits customer feedback to improve service, responds to requests for service and assistance, meets commitments.
- Interpersonal Skills: Focuses on solving conflict, maintains confidentiality, listens to others without interrupting, keeps emotions under control, remains open to ideas, and is willing to try new things.
- Oral Communication: Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations, listens to get clarification, responds well to questions, demonstrates group presentation skills, participates in meetings.
- Written Communication: Writes clearly and informatively, edits work for spelling and grammar, varies writing style to meet needs, presents numerical data effectively, able to read and interpret written information.
- Teamwork: Balances team and individual responsibilities, exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views, gives and welcomes feedback, contributes to building a positive team attitude, puts success of team above own interests, able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives, supports efforts to succeed.
- Planning/Organizing: Prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently, plans for additional resources, organizes, or schedules other people and their tasks, develops realistic action plans.
- Professionalism: Approaches others in a tactful manner, reacts well under pressure, treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position, accepts responsibility for own actions, follows through on commitments.
- Safety and Security: Observes and implements safety and security procedures, determines appropriate action beyond guidelines, reports potentially unsafe conditions, uses equipment and materials properly.
- Quality: Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, looks for ways to improve and promote quality, applies feedback to improve performance, monitors own work to ensure quality.
- Quantity: Meets productivity standards, completes work in timely manner, strives to increase productivity, works efficiently.
- Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Attendance/Punctuality: Is consistently at work and on time, ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent, attends meetings and appointments on time.
- Dependability: Follows instructions, responds to management direction, takes responsibility for own actions, keeps commitments, commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals, completes tasks on time or notifies the appropriate person with an alternate plan.
- Initiative: Volunteers readily, undertakes self-development activities, seeks increased responsibilities, takes independent actions, looks for and takes advantage of opportunities, asks for and offers help when needed.
Education, Certifications, Licenses, Experience:
- Valid driver’s license (Required)
- It may be necessary to switch from task to task on a project throughout the day. We need our Project Superintendents to communicate well and work with others to manage project changes.
- Willingness to travel. It may be necessary to travel according to the work available at different times of the year depending on project needs.
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