Location: Roanoke,VA, USA
Position Summary:
Branch Builds is searching for a highly skilled, team-oriented Area Superintendent to join our well-established, growing company. This position works closely with the Project Manager to ensure success of the project.
This position requires heavy travel and will support a large area of projects including the state of North Carolina, and south of I-64 in Virginia, including Richmond and Southwest Virginia.
Essential Functions:
Responsible for maintaining professional relations with Owner, Engineer and other members of the construction team. Ensures that appropriate parties are informed regarding major changes in the construction plan, schedule, means and methods or re-allocation of resources.
Identifies, measures, and reports to PM work changes as they pertain to the contract documents. Participates in pricing of changed/additional work. Documents, or delegates documentation, of all additional work performed via daily reports/Superintendent's diaries.
Works with Project Manager to develop job schedule that is consistent with company's responsibilities and commitments. Reviews schedule during project to ensure deadlines are met, notifies appropriate parties of all delays or potential delays and documents delays. With the project manager, ensures that schedule is updated.
Preplans and communicates project activities using short interval schedules as required. Attends pre-construction and construction meetings. Constantly verifies material and resource delivery requirements and ensures adequate flow as to not impede progress. Plans ahead.
Identifies and manages work on critical path. Identifies potential and actual work slippages and develops and implements recovery plan. Reports slippages to Project Manager. Focuses on critical path items, or near critical work items. Delivers project on schedule.
Effectively utilizes resources, i.e. people, equipment, and materials.
Supervises subcontractors to ensure quality and schedule requirements. Advises appropriate parties of subcontractor's performance, if applicable.
Organizes all trades in relation to project schedule.
Keeps work in process to a minimum and embraces the concept of Done, Done, Done.
Prior to construction, reviews with Project Manager and submits comments on detail budget, time restraints, cost codes, and purchase control.
Reviews cost status report for accuracy and integrity. Investigates and takes corrective action in areas of indicated or potential overruns. Maintains or improves margin through well-planned and improved operations.
Supplies feedback to estimating for future projects and post mortem. In conjunction with estimating, identifies key items to track and document production for future use.
Accurately documents labor and equipment usage so the costs reflect the actual work performed in the field.
Establishes a contractually acceptable level of quality by which all completed work is measured. Communicates same.
Is responsible for day-to-day quality control of work and ensures that work conforms to Contract requirements and company standards. Proactively identifies and corrects non-conforming work expeditiously and competently.
Prepares and completes a contractor punch list prior to architect / owner punch list.
Manages architect's / owner's punch list.
Finishes work as they go so the punch list is short. Expects the same of all subcontractors.
Is in direct charge of safety and accident/incident control for the project. Understands, communicates and enforces safety policy on project at all times. Demonstrates a safety conscious behavior for other employees to emulate.
Investigates and reports all incidents and near-misses to the Safety Department & management.
Required Qualifications:
3 years of experience as the lead Superintendent for a General Contractor on projects $15M+
Travel
Extensive travel within NC and VA Region
Work Environment While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme conditions at construction job sites. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work This is a full-time position which will typically involve 50+ hours a week. Due to the nature of the job, the employee must be available on-call early/late hours to deal with delays, bad weather and emergencies at the job site.
AAP/EEO Statement
It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of the Company not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a veteran, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, and other terms and condition of employment.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.