Construction Supervisor

Buckner International; Sno-Bird Estates Colonia (TX); Presencial; USD 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Buckner International seeks a Construction Supervisor to lead Healthy Housing and mission projects globally, coordinating staff, volunteers, and contractors while ensuring safety and quality. The role oversees inventory, budgeting, and compliance with codes and regulations across domestic and international sites.

The position requires strong project management, team leadership, and experience coordinating humanitarian construction efforts with a focus on stewardship and community impact.

Formación

• High School Diploma or GED required to perform essential job functions.
• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, project management, nonprofit management, logistics, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of related construction, residential construction, or project coordination experience.
• Experience supervising staff, contractors, volunteers, or project-based labor preferred.
• Experience coordinating volunteer-driven construction or mission-related projects preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Lead planning, coordination, and execution of Healthy Housing and mission projects across domestic and international geographies.
• Supervise construction staff, volunteers, contractors, vendors, and project-based partners to meet Buckner quality standards.
• Coordinate volunteer-driven construction projects by preparing work scopes, schedules and crew assignments.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, materials, tools, and labor to complete on time and within scope.
• Monitor budgets and vendor costs to support cost control and stewardship of resources.
• Ensure projects comply with building codes, permitting, and safety standards.

Conocimientos

Project management

Staff supervision

Volunteer coordination

Budget management

Safety standards

Educación

High School Diploma or GED

Bachelor’s Degree in construction management or related field

Herramientas

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Descripción del empleo

Basic Function

The Construction Supervisor serves the Buckner Children & Family Services by leading the planning, supervision, and execution of volunteer-driven Healthy Housing and construction-related mission projects across domestic and international geographies. This position coordinates staff, volunteer teams, subcontractors, vendors, materials, schedules, budgets, safety practices, and quality standards to ensure construction projects are completed safely, efficiently, within approved scope, and in alignment with Buckner program goals. The Construction Supervisor also supervises humanitarian aid operations in South Texas, including purchasing, receiving, inventory control, warehousing, packing, and distribution.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of Healthy Housing and construction-related mission projects across domestic and international geographies by adapting project plans, budgets, materials, timelines, volunteer engagement, and construction standards to local program needs, cultural contexts, and regulatory requirements.
• Supervise construction staff, volunteer teams, contracted labor, vendors, and project-based partners to complete work safely, efficiently, and to Buckner quality standards.
• Coordinate volunteer-driven construction projects by preparing work scopes, materials, tools, schedules, crew assignments, and project instructions for volunteer teams and leaders.
• Manage construction project schedules, milestones, materials, tools, equipment, and labor needs to ensure projects are completed on time and within approved scope.
• Monitor project budgets, estimates, vendor costs, material purchases, and change needs to support effective cost control and responsible stewardship of resources.
• Ensure construction projects comply with applicable building codes, permitting requirements, safety standards, and local regulations or practices.
• Supervise Humanitarian Aid Coordinator ensuring the organization and management of the humanitarian aid distribution center inventory by purchasing, receiving, warehousing, packing and shipping aid.
• Provide clear expectations, direction, coaching, and feedback to assigned staff.
• Inspect and monitor physical condition of facilities and furnishings, tool trailers and tools.
• Develop construction management strategies that will result in effective and efficient execution of projects. Tasks include:
  • Applying project management techniques to the planning, design and construction of a project in order to control the cost and time to completion of the project.
  • Implementation of quality control procedures.
  • Develop and implement systematic procedures to proactively inform crew leaders of potential issues, concerns and delays regarding vendor transactions and deliveries that impact the project schedule.
• Own jobsite safety by establishing, communicating, and enforcing safety practices for staff, volunteers,
• subcontractors, and partners before, during, and after construction activities.
• Organization and maintenance of home build cohort networks from year to year.
• Plan, develop, and coordinate mission experiences. Tasks include, but are not limited to:
  • Serve as liaison between volunteer teams and program staff to align mission experience purpose with Buckner strategy and goals.
  • Work with the Impact Advancement staff to nurture relationships with churches and volunteers.
  • Create mission experience budgets;
  • Process volunteer application forms and screen participants;
  • Prepareand conduct mission experience orientations;
  • Equip volunteer teams and leaders with construction project details and knowledge in order to meet intended project goals.

• Support the planning, tracking and reporting of essential metrics to ensure the success of Buckner Missions goals and objectives. This includes:
  • Monitoring the project management software to ensure accomplishment of deliverables.
  • Documentation of in-kind donations following established guidelines and procedures.
  • Communication with operations staff as appropriate to ensure mission groups’ objectives are aligned with Buckner program goals.

• Ensure best practice systems and procedures for the recording and handling of procurement, delivery, receipt, inspection, storage, and distribution of all donations, ensuring compliance to organizational and government requirements.
• Coordinate and complete the loading and unloading of products; coordinate the pick-up, unloading, and/or delivery of products to and from client and donor’s homes.
• Assist in developing policies and procedures for specific programs and promoting safety awareness to staff, interns, volunteers, and mission groups.
• Work closely with Volunteer Engagement Department and the Director to maintain standards and consistency.
• Actively participate in strategic planning sessions by bringing relevant ideas and solutions improve engagement of mission teams and volunteers.
• Cultivate and monitor relationships with donors, churches, schools, and other agencies and organizations to develop relationships to enhance the delivery of services to clients.
• Maintain compliance with internal and inter-departmental procedures, including:
  • Timely and accurate file maintenance in accordance with established record retention guidelines. Organize and file paperwork and documentation.
  • Timely completion, approval and submission of expense and mileage reports to the appropriate personnel for processing.
  • Timely completion and submission of work schedules, time off requests and time sheet approvals to the appropriate personnel for processing.
  • Review records to ensure proper documentation by mission groups, volunteers and interns.

Other Responsibilities

• Maintain compliance with all Buckner policies, procedures, and requirements. Maintain knowledge of and compliance with all state and federal laws and regulatory requirements.
• Manage program resources to ensure they are used efficiently and appropriately aligned with approved business objectives.
• Responsible for supporting and representing Buckner at special events, activities, and other assigned
• functions.
• Attend and participate in meetings and training as required.
• Work successfully as a part of a team and responsible for developing and maintaining strong working relationships with co-workers.
• Perform special assignments, projects, and other duties as required.

Education and Experience Requirements

• High School Diploma (or G.E.D.) required to perform essential job functions; Bachelor’s Degree in construction management, project management, nonprofit management, logistics, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of related construction, residential construction, project coordination, or construction operations experience required.
• Prior experience supervising staff, contractors, volunteer teams, or project-based labor preferred.
• Experience coordinating volunteer-driven construction, nonprofit service projects, church/community groups, or mission-related projects preferred.
• Experience with inventory, warehousing, procurement, distribution, or humanitarian aid logistics preferred.
• Requires in-depth knowledge of construction techniques, construction science, materials, jobsite safety practices, and volunteer-driven construction environments. Residential construction knowledge is preferred.

Other Requirements

• Requires ability to read, write, speak, and understand English sufficiently to perform the essential functions of the position, including communication with clients, volunteers, and community partners, documentation, and collaboration with staff. Spanish language proficiency required, including the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing, due to the need to regularly serve Spanish-speaking clients.
• Requires ability to provide project, logistical, and operational planning; organize complex tasks; facilitate meetings; and coordinate across staff, volunteers, vendors, subcontractors, and ministry partners.
• Requires ability to supervise staff, direct volunteer teams, coordinate subcontractors, foster teamwork, resolve issues, and lead with professionalism and emotional intelligence.
• Requires ability to establish, communicate, and enforce jobsite safety expectations for staff, volunteers, subcontractors, donors, church partners, and other project participants.
• Requires ability to travel to various geographic locations, both domestic and international, and some overnight stays. Requires ability to obtain and maintain the necessary documentation to travel internationally.
• Requires jobholder to work before and after normal business hours, some nights and weekends, as needed to meet client and business needs including promptly responding to phone calls, text messages and emails.
• Requires ability to drive assigned vehicle(s) or personal vehicle, with an appropriate state license, following all laws applicable; must provide proof of liability insurance and must be eligible to be insured under Buckner’s insurance policy. Requires the ability to rent vehicles both domestically and internationally using required documentation. Must be age 21 or older to drive on behalf of Buckner.
• Requires ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Requires proficient ability to exhibit detail-oriented skills necessary to understand and manage a wide-range of information.
• Requires in-depth ability to plan, administer, and report budgets.
• Requires proficient working knowledge of budgetary management and development of policies and procedures.
• Requires ability to provide strategic and logistical planning and facilitate meetings, conferences, workshops, and retreats as required.
• Proficient working knowledge and ability to accurately and timely operate and perform computer-related tasks with specific equipment and software applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, required.
• Requires recognition that the organization is a faith-based organization operating with a commitment to Christian principles.
• Requires ability to use up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently and/or 10 pounds continuously to move objects.
• Requires ability to walk frequently; occasionally stand for prolonged periods of time; occasionally required to squat, climb stairs, kneel and twist. Required to sit for prolonged periods of time, including extensive airline travel.
• Requires ability to speak clearly and make self-understood in face-to-face interactions; to articulate with extreme accuracy and precisions to give directions, speak on the phone, etc.
• Requires ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Requires ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, trustees, vendors, residents, families, agency representatives, etc.
• Requires ability to effectively work under pressure and remain flexible as priorities change; ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing and speak in front of groups.
• Requires ability to work under minimal supervision; and exercise sound judgment and confidentiality.
• Requires ability to supervise others and hold others accountable for work completed; provide training, development and feedback to staff.
• Requires excellent professional business contract negotiation skills.
• Requires sufficient good health to properly discharge duties. Employees shall not be permitted to work who have infectious disease or skin lesion for the duration of the communicability.

Buckner International and its subsidiaries comply with all the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.