Lead Superintendent - Higher Education projects

Wainwright Talent Partners; New Haven (CT); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Wainwright Talent Partners seeks a Lead Superintendent for higher education projects in Connecticut. The role provides overall direction on projects, maintains strong working relationships with owners and architects, and ensures safety, quality, compliance, and timely turnover throughout the lifecycle.

You will supervise field personnel, coordinate with the Project Manager, manage subcontractors, and drive pre-construction, scheduling, and turnover activities while maintaining OSHA compliance.

Qualifications

• 8 to 12 years of experience in construction fields.
• Applicable area licenses.
• Excellent team development and leadership abilities.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and tight supervision.
• Budget and schedule judgment.

Responsabilités

• Oversee, manage, and document all day-to-day job site activities including OSHA safety compliance.
• Direct field personnel according to the project plan and supervisory principles.
• Communicate issues, events, performance, and progress daily to the Project Manager.
• Report problems promptly to the Project Manager to facilitate cost-effective solutions.
• Establish effective working relationships with Clients, team members, subcontractors, and Authorities having jurisdiction.
• Project Start-Up/Turnover Meeting.
• Scheduling: Assist formulating and implementing construction schedules in the field; establish and update the Baseline Schedule monthly.
• Safety: Ensure participation in safety pre-construction meetings and adherence to OSHA requirements.
• Quality Management: Establish benchmarks, ensure inspections are approved and communicated.
• Subcontractor and Site Management: mobilization, manage subcontractor performance, and site utilization plans.
• Meeting Management: Attend project turnover, mobilization, and coordination meetings.
• Project Closeout: Manage closeout, transfer of utilities, owner training, and punch lists.

Connaissances

Leadership

Project Management

Safety Compliance

Communication

Description du poste

Lead Superintendent - Higher Education projects

About the job Lead Superintendent - Higher Education projects

The Superintendent provides overall direction on projects, and develops and maintains strong working relationships with the owners and architects throughout the project lifecycle. This individual evaluates project performance, site conditions, safety and quality standards, compliance with scope, and effective management of trade partners. This individual is also responsible for ensuring that constructability reviews, logistics plans and baseline schedules achieve project turnover requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee, manage, and document all day-to-day job site activities including OSHA safety compliance
• Direct field personnel according to the project plan and organizations supervisory principles
• Communicate issues, events, performance, and progress daily to the Project Manager
• Report any problems promptly to the Project Manager to facilitate the most cost-effective solutions
• Establish effective working relationships with Clients, team members, subcontractors, and Authorities having jurisdiction. On union projects, maintain effective working relationships with trade union business agents and managers
• Project Start-Up/Turnover Meeting
• Scheduling:
  • Assist in formulating and implementing construction schedules in the field
  • Establish and implement the Project Baseline Schedule based on the project contracts and subcontractor input, considering any elements that might impact the schedule
  • Maintain the schedule and ensure that work performed is consistent with the contract and will meet or exceed client expectations
  • Update Project Schedule monthly
• Safety:
  • Ensure that all subcontractors participate in a safety pre-construction meeting prior to starting work on the project
  • Review the project daily to ensure that all activities are being performed in accordance with all OSHA and governing requirements and the project site specific safety plan
• Quality Management:
  • Ensure that all pertinent benchmarks for the project are established and inserted into the baseline schedule
  • Ensure that the inspections are approved, documented and communicated to the project team
• Subcontractor and Site Management throughout the Project:
  • Manage site pre-construction including pre-construction survey, job site utilization and staging plans
  • Mobilize the field office and maintains the job site to organizations standards
  • Manage subcontractor performance to quality and ethical standards
  • Work with PM to identify and resolve personnel issues and construction process revisions
  • Manage all phases of the construction process including documenting and reporting site activities and progress, manage excavations and assist with Job Site Utilization Plan
• Meeting Management:
  • Attend project turnover, mobilization, and project coordination meetings
• Project Closeout:
• Manage subcontractor closeout, transfer of utilities, owner training, work list and punch list

Qualifications

• 8 to 12 years of experience related construction fields
• Each project has specific characteristics regarding size, complexity, sector, etc. which dictate the precise years of experience and industry knowledge necessary for success, above and beyond generic construction knowledge and experience
• Applicable area licenses
• Excellent team development skills and leadership abilities
• Strong ability to partner with the Project Manager and staff
• Must possess effective communication skills
• Capable of dealing with ambiguity and tight work oversight
• Able to constantly multi-task and handle competing priorities between organizations business needs and organizational issues while maintaining excellent customer relations
• Must possess business judgment to negotiate the critical balance between budget and construction processes