Superintendent

The superintendent manages all project planning and proactively monitors and verifies project execution, including safety, schedule, cost, and quality. The superintendent is also responsible for identifying and resolving conflict and assuring efficient internal and external communication.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitors productivity, efficiency, and profitability for all current projects, including the correct allocation of resources.
• Acts as a resource by mentoring, training, and developing personnel in all aspects of their careers.
• Works with project manager to develop construction plan including schedule, equipment, and buyout.
• Works with project manager to ensure all required material, equipment, and inspections support the project schedule.
• Oversees total jobsite construction effort to ensure the project is constructed following design, budget, and schedule.
• Supervises various subcontractors, foreman, and craftsmen to ensure projects are properly executed.
• Locate materials, formwork, equipment, and tools onsite and offsite and direct others to utilize items to meet established production and quality goals.
• Train and manage others to properly maintain all equipment, and tools so that they are in a safe and reliable working condition.
• Properly layout all work to be performed based off drawings and given survey points.
• Responsible for all project safety, including fall protection, barricades, and other safety systems.
• Works with the project manager to maintain as-built drawings, incorporating all RFI's, supplemental drawings, and miscellaneous updates.
• Responsible for managing field crews in leadership and utilizing time clock tool (ExakTime).
• Perform daily reports in detail, concise, and professional manner using Construction and Maintenance Log Book (Green Books).
• Submit 2-week schedule look ahead to the general superintendent on a weekly basis.
• Main liaison with clients' on-site field supervision.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering or Business Management or ten years of experience in the concrete construction, along with five years in a leadership capacity.
• Construction superintendents use a variety of soft skills, technical abilities, and industry knowledge to manage a construction project effectively, including:
• Excellent communication abilities, including writing, speaking and active listening
• Knowledge of construction budgeting best practices
• Good planning skills, including design execution, resource allocation and contingencies
• Understanding of construction equipment, including safe operating practices and signs of maintenance issues
• In-depth understanding of local, state, and federal construction regulations
• Great problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Effective leadership abilities, like motivation, goal setting, and conflict management
• Organizational skills, including time management, delegation, prioritization, and multitasking
• Valid driver’s license
• Must have reliable transportation to the workplace(s)/ job location(s).
• Ability to successfully pass a background check related to driving (for any driver)
• Ability to pass drug screening.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and in the future.

Benefits

Kent Companies provides its employees with one of the most competitive compensation and benefits packages in the construction industry. Benefits vary by location, with a fully customized benefits package presented upon hire. Typical benefits packages include:

• Weekly pay
• PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Supplemental insurance options
• Retirement plans with discretionary employer-matching
• Holiday pay (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day)
• Scholarship opportunities for dependents
• Leadership development opportunities