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Description
Job Summary:
In this role, you will lead a team and supervise superintendents and/or craft professionals on a project. You will direct craft professional activities and work schedules, and coordinate subcontract work activities and team development. Your oversight will ensure craft professionals have the tools required to be productive, comply with project policies, procedures, and job site work rules and procedures, and perform within specifications, schedules and budgets.
Requirements
Major Responsibilities:
Leadership / Supervision
- Supervises and/or directs craft activities as assigned.
- Schedules work to be performed and reviews work accomplished by each craft.
Planning / Productivity
- Determines workforce requirements.
- Coordinates established area operational plans.
Tools, Materials & Equipment
- Monitors tool and equipment usage on the site.
- Prepares Field Material Requisitions for tools and consumables and ensures that the crafts have the tools they require to be productive.
Safety & Quality
- Ensures the most current design document is used to complete the work and that all design changes are approved prior to implementation.
- Ensures assigned construction operations and subcontractors’ performance are in compliance with specifications and within schedules and budgets.
Technical
- Works with Construction Field Engineers, Foremen, and Craft Professionals, in interpreting Engineering design documents, vendor documents, and other technical documents
- Coordinates engineering solutions with Subcontractors, and Foremen and Craft Professionals.
Education and Experience Requirements:
Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9 -12 years of relevant work experience.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Deep understanding of:
- Site grading, access roads, drainage
- Trenching and backfilling for electrical
- Knowledge of soil types, compaction standards, and erosion control
Proficient in reading:
- Civil site drawings (grading, cut/fill)
- Survey data, coordinates, and elevations
- Stormwater plans (SWPPP), utility plans
- Able to coordinate and verify layout with survey teams
- Understanding of GPS rover workflows and as-built data collection
- Can set control points and troubleshoot discrepancies in the field
- Familiar with the operation and limits of dozers, graders, trenchers, water trucks, compactors
- Understands production rates and equipment needs for specific scopes
- Proven experience supervising subcontractors and enforcing scopes/schedules
- Knows how to manage:
- Scope gaps
- Change order prevention
- QA/QC handoffs and punch management
Comfortable managing internal labor crews:
- Hiring, training, and managing laborers and operators
- Planning day-to-day activities and equipment assignments
- Can motivate and hold direct crews accountable while also being a field presence
- Proficient with digital project scheduling tools and field reporting
- Demonstrated commitment to Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) and commitment to a Zero Incident safety program.
- Familiarity with Bechtel Standard Applications (BSAPs), including Setroute, ArcGIS, Aconex, DSCS, and Unifier