Superintendent - BE&K Building Group

Summary

Superintendent is responsible for overseeing and managing all day-to-day job site activities, including project team performance, site conditions, safety and quality standards, compliance with scope, and effective management of trade partners.

Responsibilities

• Oversee, manage, and document all day-to-day job site activities including OSHA safety compliance
• Communicate issues, events, performance, and progress daily to the Project Manager
• Report any problems promptly to the Project Manager to facilitate the most cost-effective solutions
• Establish effective working relationships with clients and BE&K team members
• Request advice and assistance from the General Superintendent on matters pertaining to materials, sequencing, scheduling and personnel
• Project Start-Up/Turnover Meeting:
  • Identify pre-mobilization activities in conjunction with the Project Executive, General Superintendent, and the Project Manager
  • Develop start-up schedule with Project Manager and send it to the Project Executive and General Superintendent for review

• Scheduling:
  • Assist in formulating and implementing construction schedules in the field
  • Establish and implement the Project Baseline Schedule based on the project contracts and subcontractor input, taking into account any elements that might impact the schedule
  • Maintain the schedule and ensure that work performed is consistent with the contract and will meet or exceed client expectations
  • Update Project Schedule monthly
  • Provide progress report with the two-week look ahead of schedule to the Project Manager and the field staff

• Safety:
  • Ensure that all subcontractors participate in a safety pre-construction meeting prior to starting work on the project
  • Ensure that all subcontractors have a full set of MSD sheets on the project, as well as their site specific safety plan and current insurance certificate
  • Review the project daily to ensure that all activities are being performed in accordance with all OSHA and governing requirements and the project site specific safety plan
  • Review safety reports and injury data to assess safety performance on assigned projects
  • Ensure project(s) are budgeted & staffed appropriately to support safety programs
  • Communicate clear expectations for safety to project teams
  • Adhere to all BE&K Safety program requirements
• Quality Management:
  • Ensure that all pertinent benchmarks for the project are established and inserted into the baseline schedule
  • Ensure that all 1st delivery inspections and Benchmark inspections occur per the baseline schedule so as not to impact the progression of the subsequent work
  • Ensure that the inspections are approved, documented, and communicated to the project team
• Subcontractor and Site Management throughout the Project:
  • Mobilize the field office and maintain the job site to BE&K standards
  • Organize documentation of the job site for easy access and review
  • Manage subcontractor performance to quality and ethical standards
  • Work with PM to identify and resolve personnel issues and construction process revisions
  • Manage all phases of the construction process including documenting and reporting site activities and progress, manage excavations and assist with Job Site Utilization Plan

• Meeting Management:
  • Attend project turnover, mobilization, and project coordination meetings
  • Attend/chair safety pre-construction meetings
  • Attend/chair weekly foreman and safety meetings
  • Attend/chair monthly schedule review meetings
  • Attend closeout meetings
  • Attend owner meetings
  • Attend/chair subcontractor meetings and any others necessary to monitor and manage the project

• Administrative Management:
  • Complete and implement construction office checklists including emergency phone lists
  • Complete daily reports and maintains logs of key activities, files, and shop drawings
  • Manage the quality and condition of all material deliveries
  • Maintain required safety reporting and all other required files to BE&K standards
  • Insure that as-built working drawings are maintained as well as the current drawing log and revision log, communicating this to the subcontractors

• Project Closeout:
  • Manage subcontractor closeout, transfer of utilities, owner training, work list and punch list

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or Engineering (preferred not required)
• 5+ years of experience as a Superintendent in Commercial Construction
• The ability to manage and embrace change. Respond and adapt to new processes and new ways of looking at old problems
• Excellent team development skills and leadership abilities
• Strong ability to partner with the Project Manager and staff
• Must possess effective communication skills
• Capable of dealing with ambiguity and tight work oversight
• Must possess business judgment to negotiate the critical balance between budget and construction processes
• Must have judgment to know when to appropriately escalate issues up the chain of command
• Excellent management skills to effectively manage subcontractor performance to high quality
• Candidate must possess BE&K Core Values: Integrity ~ Teamwork ~ Respect ~ Discipline ~ Accountability ~ Social Responsibility

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug test