Project Superintendent - The Christman Company

Build More with Your Career at Christman

Are you interested in becoming an employee-owner with a leading national general contractor that will provide you with opportunities to Build More in your professional career? The Christman Company is looking for Project Superintendent candidates in the greater Greensboro area.

The Project Superintendent's primary responsibility is to run the day-to-day operations on construction sites. This role manages the coordination of subcontractors, sequencing of work activities, maintaining the project schedule, quality control, and enforcement of project safety rules to assure a safe and successful project completion.

What You Will Do:

As a Project Superintendent, your primarydaily responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Ensures Christman is represented at the project site every day work is being performed by setting expectations, responsibilities, and maintaining commitments.
• Review conceptual, schematic, and design development documents for constructability, phasing options, temporary protection requirements, site logistics, and other field construction issues. Recommend or evaluate construction options and efficiencies based on these reviews.
• Establish project site expectations for safety, quality, unforeseen conditions, housekeeping, and general conduct.
• Create project-specific safety program highlighting key or unique hazards introduced by site conditions or work methods and scheduled adjacencies. Develop and communicate leadership approach for addressing hazards on the project.
• Define safety expectations by providing a safety orientation for every individual who enters the site. Emphasize the importance of not sacrificing safety for speed. Discuss relevant safety topics with trade contractor on a weekly basis or more frequently if needed.
• Address early offenses to clarify expectations and reinforce commitment to safety, recognize and correct common work area hazards.
• Promptly report and investigate accidents and safety-related incidents, disciplining repeat or extreme violations, up to and including, permanently removing individuals from the project site.
• Plan and coordinate site logistics, including traffic patterns, equipment locations, and storage and staging.
• Partner with Project Manager, client, and trade contractors to develop a work plan for the project. Coordinate project team's preparation for upcoming work through progress meetings.
• Plan and coordinate timely initiation, momentum, and completion of all trade contract work on the project site according to the project schedule.
• Oversee technical interpretation of construction documents and drawings, recommend construction methods, and equipment as required. Assure consistency with contractual specifications and requirements for the project.
• Discuss quality expectations with trade foremen prior to installation (pre-bid, post-bid, and pre-installation meetings).
• Arrange pre-installation coordination meetings for all work areas that involve overlapping work by multiple trade contractors.
• Arrange and coordinate timely permitting and required inspections to start and complete work.
• Prioritize and review critical submittals for dimensional control and constructability.
• Maintain rolling punch list defining final quality expectations and ensure completion.
• Verify and authorize trade contractor timesheets for extra work performed on a time and material basis.
• Authorize purchase requisitions for material, equipment, and labor as agreed with Project Manager, Executive, or Director prior to the project startup or in the event emergency situations arise and is required to keep the project and team members safe.
• Complete thorough and accurate daily reports of progress and concerns or challenges, including daily weather and safety inspections, violations, and accidents.
• Continuously assess and analyze the project's actual status against goals, develop contingency plans, and revise construction strategy as required.
• When conflicts and disputes arise during the course of the project, focus all parties on developing mutually acceptable solutions aligned with the contractual agreements.
• Compile fair and honest reports of the project team's experience with each trade contractor using the trade contractor evaluation survey.
• Complete assigned and required training for this role.

What You Will Bring to the Team:

Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum five (5) years of commercial construction experience in a leadership role as a Foreman or Superintendent.
• Successful completion of classes or other training in Construction Management, Project Management, Safety, or Communication.

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• Equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.

• Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Must have the ability to manage and plan work activities along with the ability to recognize safety concerns while promoting a safe culture amongst our team, partners, and trade contractors.
• Able to demonstrate interest and familiarity with site requirements, tools, methods, and materials as it relates to the entire range of trade divisions.
• Must be able to write and communicate clearly and quickly to a variety of audiences.
• Possess good problem solving and communication skills along with an understanding of how risk is managed as it relates to the project and company as a whole.
• Ability to understand job cost accounting practices and ability to analyze reports.
• Advanced understanding of construction scheduling, cost control and ability to control and supervise large trade and subcontractor groups.
• Ability to manage time, plan, schedule, organize, and prioritize responsibilities to consistently meet deadlines.
• Demonstrates the ability to create and build strong, positive relationships with owners, architects, and contractors.
• Must be able to lead, work well with others, and build relationships with the project team and subcontractors, resolving conflicts or jobsite issues as they arise.
• Have a passion for team-based planning and problem-solving and wholehearted commitment to building strong partnerships to support project goals.
• Have basic computer skills and a basic understanding of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Microsoft Word, Procore, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and a firm understanding of Microsoft Project.

Why Christman?

Here at Christman, everyone is an owner. Through ouremployee stock ownership plan, each employee-owner shares in the collective success and wealth of our nationally recognized company and is eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance, 401K contribution, professional development and tuition reimbursement, and more.

We're a top 100-ranked ENR General Contractor that has been building since 1894. Learn more about how you can grow as a Christman Expert, Leader and Partner and build more with us.

Notice to Recruiting Agencies (Unsolicited Resumes): The Christman Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our applicant tracking system, website, or to any Christman employee/affiliates. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Christman employees or its' affiliates will be considered property of The Christman Company and will be processed accordingly. Christman will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume without an executed agreement and assigned to a specific search.

The Christman family of companies is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.