Field Superintendent

Job Summary:

Responsible for construction field installation activities with an emphasis on labor productivity, quality and timely installations, and employee morale. This requires close coordination with the Project Manager, Senior Field Supers, and Construction Operations Manager. The position is responsible for job site safety. Directs activities of workers concerned with construction by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages 1-2 Asst. Field Supers who supervise approximately 25-50 team members. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Essential Functions: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Study drawings and specifications to plan procedures for construction on basis of starting and completion times and staffing requirements for each phase of construction.
• Ensure that an adequate field workforce is maintained on each project through input from Project Managers and/or Construction Operations Manager.
• Monitor field labor productivity to meet job cost budget.
• Monitor and assist in scheduling fabrication shop activities, quality and including ship dates and accuracy of shipments.
• Coordinate project and material need to maintain piping and sheet metal field labor productivity.
• Provide "hands-on" assistance at the job site for field crews to ensure maximum productivity of high quantity field labor tasks.
• Assist on-site field team with the development of work sequence and material needs.
• Provide assistance at the job site with the setting of all equipment, specifically boilers, chillers, pumps, air handling devices, fans, medical gas equipment, and other critical equipment.
• Assist in developing new Field Supers and Asst Field Supers through on-site and classroom training.
• Assist in troubleshooting and service calls on installed systems when required.
• Assist Project Manager and Asst Field Supers in establishing room and board rates, and travel arrangements, if required; with management assistance, ensure vehicle expense budget is met.
• Schedule, monitor, and correct, as needed, subcontractor progress and performance. This position is responsible to ensure that if SPC and/or SPC subcontractors are working weekends, that they are supervised by an SPC Senior Field Super, Field Super, or Asst Field Super at all times.
• Prepare written evaluations for all field personnel. Make salary adjustment recommendations to Construction Operations Manager for review.
• Review and approve weekly field timesheets.
• Hire and terminate field employees as required.
• Procure tools and materials to be delivered at specified times to conform to work schedules.
• Work closely with the Project Manager and BIM Dept prior to commencement of work to ensure timeliness, accuracy, and adherence to applicable codes.
• Assist the PM with building and subsequent updating of the job-specific SPC labor burn chart (long-range labor projections). Adherence to this burn chart is expected of this position.
• Develop positive relationships with approved SPC temporary staffing agencies as they are essential to SPCs overall success. Supervising/managing temporary workers should be accomplished identical to supervising/managing full-time SPC workers.
• Management and tracking of rental equipment for optimum use.
• Management, tracking and inventorying of the SPC tool fleet program.
• Reviewing and enforcing the speeding/idling report.
• Attend and participate in our SPC bi-monthly Field Super meeting. Overall SPC labor-management/movement should be discussed as needed.
• Attend and participate in SPC pre-job startup meetings including but not limited to Purchasing, BIM, Estimating turnover, Operations preconstruction, and Prefab planning.
• Work closely with the Project Manager and Construction Operations Manager to ensure the project schedule's specific start and completion date (for SPC activities) are absolutely met. Proper staffing of the job to meet said dates are required.
• Assigning and maintaining SPCs truck fleet. o Monitoring and updating SPCs welding, brazing/soldering, and medical gas certifications.
• Quality assurance and control on job sites. QA/QC is the responsibility of the Construction Operations Manager and the Senior Field Super. Quality control is defined as the part of the quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements. Quality assurance relates to how a process is performed, quality control is the inspection aspect of quality management. Ensures QA/QC is performed timely and completely. Any punch list generated through these inspections shall be completed and properly recorded under the direction of this position.
• Completely understand and enforce SPCs safety policy including emergency accident or injury procedures as described in SPCs written safety policy. Weekly toolbox talks and site safety inspections should be implemented.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Associate degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school. o Six months to one year related experience and/or training.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to manage up to 1-2 projects.
• Ability to read and interpret documents o Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. o Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization. o Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardizations exist.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schematic form.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.