Construction Superintendent

Bechtel; Santiago; Hybrid; CLP 50,000,000 - 70,000,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Part-time telework

Job summary

Bechtel in Santiago, Chile seeks a Construction Superintendent to monitor subcontractor planning, safety, quality and technical activities on the Escondida New Truck Shop project. This senior role requires coordinating with field engineers, foremen and craft professionals to align safety, quality and schedule.

The position supports on large, high-complexity projects with multiple stakeholders and involves in-person attendance several days per week per project leadership guidance.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of construction execution and safety leadership.
• Experience coordinating subcontractors and managing multiple interfaces.
• Ability to interpret engineering documents and ensure constructability alignment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and direct subcontractor activities to align with schedules.
• Support large, high-complexity projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Review and approve construction methods, schedules, and manpower plans.
• Lead safety, quality, and field execution on site.
• Coordinate with Construction Field Engineers, Foremen and Craft Professionals.
• Interface with Design on constructability and engineering issues.

Skills

Construction execution

Safety leadership

Subcontractor management

Constructability

Planning & Scheduling

Quality control

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree (or international equivalent)

Job description

Requisition ID: 300640

• Relocation Authorized: None

• Telework Type: Part-Time Telework

• Work Location: Santiago

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Project Overview:

Escondida New Truck Shop:

The Escondida New Truck Shop (ENTS) Project involves construction of a modern truck shop, located northeast of the existing facility, with 24 bays measuring 24m x 24m, plus eight bays for auxiliary equipment measuring 18m x 24m. The new shop is located outside the mine\'s facilities and near the mine road that deposits ore into the sulfide stockpile. The scope also includes construction of a new warehouse adjacent to the shop.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will monitor and organize subcontractor planning, safety, quality, and technical activities on a complex project with multiple stakeholders’ involvement, through the coordination and instruction of subcontractor’s management staff. Your field supervision will help ensure operations are planned to coincide with overall established schedules and that work methods are planned and executed safely.

This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership”.

Major Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and directs subcontractor activities, through coordination and instruction of subcontractors\' management staff within the area of responsibility.

• Role supports on large projects of high complexity with multiple stakeholders’ involvement.

Planning

• Reviewing and monitoring subcontractor construction schedules, resource charts, and material and equipment requirements.

• Reviewing and approving where necessary, subcontractor construction methods, schedules, manning charts, and material and equipment requirements.

• Leading the construction operations impact on external interfaces to ensure they coincide with the overall established schedules.

Safety / Quality

• Monitoring installation of materials and equipment to assure conformance with drawings, specifications, vendor, and other requirements.

• Implementing and enforcing policies, procedures and related work rules as established by field construction management.

Technical

• Working with Construction Field Engineers, Foremen, and Craft Professionals, in interpreting Engineering design documents, vendor documents, and other technical documents.

• Coordinating engineering solutions with Subcontractors, and Foremen and Craft Professionals.

• Coordinating with Design on constructability issues.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong knowledge of construction execution, safety leadership, subcontractor management, constructability, planning and scheduling, quality control, workfront readiness and multidisciplinary interface management.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex construction activities, identify and remove field constraints, manage subcontractor performance, interpret engineering requirements and maintain alignment between safety, quality, productivity and project schedule.

• Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving and stakeholder-management capabilities, with experience working in complex mining and brownfield environments.

As key part of the above request, the person must be accomplished with:

1. Seniority: Someone who directs execution rather than simply monitors it.

2. Technical credibility: includes schedule, AWP, constructability, quality and engineering interfaces.

3. Field focus: emphasizes workfront readiness, productivity and constraint removal.

4. Alignment: demonstrates the integration, judgment and leadership expected from a Construction Superintendent.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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