Construction Supervisor

About This Role

This position is responsible for leading one or more construction projects and overseeing their planning, scheduling, code compliance, cost tracking, safety, and completion. The Superintendent directs and mentors subcontractors and other on-site field staff. The role requires strong leadership, organizational, and time management skills, as well as communication and team-building abilities.

Responsibilities

• Assure the required permits and approvals from jurisdictional agencies are secured, posted, and renewed as required prior to starting work
• Develop, update, modify, and maintain the project schedule, including a master schedule, 60-day look-ahead schedules for assigned trades, and two-week look-ahead schedules for assigned trades
• Understand and be familiar with the date by which all materials must arrive on the job and convey that information to the project management team for preparation of the contract items lists and shop drawing schedules
• Coordinate scheduling of subcontractors, vendors, and inspectors to complete each project on time
• Communicate with and support each subcontractor to execute their job duties effectively and efficiently
• Monitor work and materials to ensure quality control standards are met at various stages of the project
• Perform inspections or schedule inspectors to meet the varying safety and compliance regulations of each job location
• Prepare the daily construction reports in a thorough and timely manner and maintain a written daily log of visitors, job actions performed, materials expended, and problems resolved on the job site
• Assure daily job progress photographs are taken in ample quantity to accurately depict the progress of the work
• Travel between multiple job sites and simultaneously manage workloads of individual projects
• Understand and ensure risk controls are properly established and maintained
• Understand and uphold the site safety plan
• Understand and uphold the site logistics plan
• Assure the implementation and continuous maintenance of corporate safety program requirements in all of the day-to-day operations on the project
• Prepare and attend the weekly subcontractor meetings, assist in maintaining the minutes of these meetings, and ensure they are recorded and distributed
• Prepare and manage weekly safety meetings, regular toolbox talks, and safety pre-task meetings as required
• Attend weekly meetings with the project team for purposes of updates on the status of the field work and communication of any issues requiring the input or action of others on the project team, and for notification to the project team of issues that may be of importance or interest to them
• Establish and maintain a system of document control to assure work is being installed in accordance with the latest design documentation and approved shop drawings