Construction Superintendent

Turner & Townsend; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Superintendent to oversee daily operations at a designated construction site. You will travel up to 40% of the time and coordinate with project managers, architects, engineers, and other specialists to ensure timely completion of projects.

Responsibilities include supervising staff, managing budgets and schedules, reviewing drawings for accuracy, and ensuring compliance with codes and safety policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5–8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in staffing, training, development, coaching, and performance management is preferred.
• Ability to convey complex information clearly and handle problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide formal supervision to employees, monitor training and development, conduct evaluations and coaching, and assist with hiring.
• Coordinate and manage daily team activities, establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff.
• Set deadlines, mentor staff, and work with project managers, architects, engineers, and other specialists to ensure timely delivery.
• Order equipment, tools, and materials; oversee budget and keep projects on schedule.
• Review drawings and plans for accuracy and ensure compliance with codes and safety policies.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Budgeting

MS Office

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

• Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
• Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
• We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

As a Turner and Townsend Superintendent, you will be responsible for the oversight of daily operations at a designated construction site.

This will person will travel up to 40% of the time.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and coaching. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees.
• Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff.
• Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed.
• Work directly with project managers, architects, engineers, electricians, and other specialists to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Order necessary equipment, tools, and materials. Oversee the project budget and ensure it stays on schedule for completion.
• Review construction drawings and approved plans for accuracy.
• Verify all local, state, and national business codes and regulations are followed. Confirm team adheres to all company policies and safety protocols.
• Write and organize daily logs and other necessary documentation for management and client review.
• Apply a broad knowledge of the business, own discipline, and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with company values. Influence others to adopt a different point of view while being guided by policies and departmental plans.
• Identify and solve technical and operational problems of complexity.
• Understand and recognize the broader impact across the department.
• Improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5 - 8 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
• Experience in the areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention is preferred.
• Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations, and handle problems.
• Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.
• Intermediate math skills. Ability to calculate complicated figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations.

Additional Information

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

• Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
• Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
• Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.
• It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

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